The Chicago Drug Discovery Consortium is an informal biannual gathering of researchers from academia and industry focused on all aspects of drug discovery.

1:15-1:20 Welcome

1:20-2:20 David J. Burns, Neuroscience Early Pain Discovery Team, Abbott Laboratories, “Early Pain Discovery: How Do We Identify New Pain Targets and Drugs?”

2:20-3:15 Jim Wang, Department of Biopharmaceutical Sciences,
University of Illinois at Chicago, “Molecular Mechanisms and Interventions of Chemotherapy induced Neuropathic Pain”

3:15-4:15 Sergey Kozmin, Chicago Tri-Institutional Center for Chemical Methods and Library Development, University of Chicago
“Synthetic Small-Molecule Libraries to Enable Discovery of New Pharmacological Probes”

4:15-5:00 Roger Bossé, Molecular Medicine, Perkin-Elmer
“Cell-based Assays for Drug Discovery”

5:00-6:00 Reception

Herman Auditorium is located on the first floor of the Molecular Biology Research Building (MBRB), 900 South Ashland Avenue, on the UIC Medical Campus. Parking is available across the street in a parking garage at the corner of Taylor Street, Marshfield Avenue, and Paulina Street. Please enter MBRB through the main Marshfield entrance.