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SUMMARY:Julius B. Kahn Lecture in Pharmacology: Brian Shoichet\, PhD
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Brian Shoichet\, PhD; Professor and Chair of Pharmaceutical Chemistry\, Unviersity of California\, San Franssico.  Lecture Title: Directed and Random Walks in Chemical Space.  Abstract: Recently\, make-on-demand chemistry has expanded the number of readily available molecules by a million fold\, into the trillions.  I will consider how this has impacted our ability to find novel molecules that can modulate therapeutic targets (probes and leads)\, and strategies for navigating and optimizing in this vast new space\, with particular applications to the discovery of novel analgesics and antipsychotics.    Biography: Brian Shoichet was born on the banks of the Don River in Toronto.  His family was upper middle class\, but they had love.  Shoichet received a BSc in Chemistry from MIT (1985) and a PhD in Pharmaceutical Chemistry for work with Tack Kuntz at UCSF.  He studied protein structure and stability as a Damon Runyon fellow with Brian Matthews at the Institute of Mol. Biology\, Eugene\, before joining the faculty (1996) in what was then Molecular Pharmacology & Biological Chemistry at Northwestern University\, for which records no longer exist.  He was recruited back to UCSF in 2003\, where he was eventually appointed chair of the Department that was so foolish as to train him in the first place.  The lab develops structure-based and chemoinformatic methods for ligand discovery. These they test prospectively in model systems and therapeutic targets\, often GPCRs.  A recent disruptive innovation has been the advent of ultra-large make-on-demand libraries\, the impact of which is the focus of his presentation.  
LOCATION:Robert H Lurie Medical Research Center\, 1-123 Baldwin Auditorium\, 303 E. Superior\, Chicago\, IL 60611
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