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Graduate Seminar Program - Past Speakers

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May 9, 2008

Patrick DeLuca, PhD

Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY

Microparticulate Drug Delivery Systems for Parenteral Administration

March 24, 2008

Victor C. Yang, PhD

Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor , MI

Strategies for Delivery of ProteinTherapeutics

March 3, 2008

Thomas S. Ingallinera, RPh, PhD

Pharmaceutical Consultant, Charleston, SC

Modern Alchemy: Pharmaceutical Development in the 21st Century

January 28, 2008

Silvia Catinella, PhD

Chiesi Farmaceutici, Parma, Italy

LC/MS in Pharmaceutical R&D

January 9, 2008

Julie Johnson, PharmD

Department of Pharmacy Practice, University Florida, Gainesville, FL

Pharmacogenetics of antihypertensive agents:  Blood pressure lowering and outcomes

December 10, 2007

Scott E. Snyder, PhD

Division of Nuclear Medicine

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN

PET Radiopharmaceutical Research at St Jude

December 3, 2007

Athar H. Chishti, PhD

University of Illinois at Chicago 

Calpain-1: A critical regulator of tyrosine phosphorylation and cell signaling

September 17, 2007

Lawrence L. Fleckenstein, PharmD

Dept of Clinical & Administrative Pharmacy, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

Preclinical and Clinical Development of a New Antimalarial Combination

May 21, 2007

Jose L. Lopez-Ribot, PharmD, PhD

Department of Biology

University of Texas, San Antonio, TX

Candida albicans Biofilms

May 14, 2007

David E. Smith, PhD

Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Role of PEPT2 in 5-Aminolevulinic Acid Neuroprotection

April 16, 2007

Thomas R. Webb, PhD

Department of Chemical Biology and Therapeutics, St Jude Children's Research Hospital

Some Applications of High Throughput Chemistry tot he Discovery of Early Drug Leads

April 9, 2007

Courtney Fletcher, PhamrD

Department of Clinical Pharmacy

University of Colorado, Denver, CO

Pharmacologic Contribution to Therapeutic Success with Antiretroviral Agents

April 2, 2007

Alexandros Makriyannis, PhD

Bouvé College of Health Sciences

Northeastern University, Boston, MA

The Endocannabinoid System as a Therapeutic Target

February 12, 2007

Kim Brouwer, PharmD, PhD

Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC

Probing Hepatobiliary Drug Clearance in Humans: Translating from Bench to Bedside

January 25, 2007

Alice M. Clark

Department of Pharmacognosy

University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS

The Evolution of Antifungal Drug Discovery

January 8, 2007

Sharyn Baker, PharmD, PhD

Pharmaceutical Sciences Department

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Determinants of Response to Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors

November 13, 2006

David H. Feeny, PhD

Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research, Portland, OR

The Multi-Attribute Utility Approach for Assessing Health-Related Quality of Life

October 23, 2006

Marc Gastonguay, PhD

Metrum Research Group, Tariffville, CT

Bayesian Concepts and Methods in
Pediatric Clinical Trials

October 16, 2006

Wei-Chiang Shen, PhD

University of Southern California

Los Angeles, CA

Transferrin Receptor-mediated Oral Absorption of Protein and Peptide Drugs: From Chemical Conjugates to Recombinant Fusion Proteins

October 2, 2006

Amita Joshi, PhD

Genentech Inc.

South San Francisco, CA 

Integration of Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics in the Development of Biologics at Genentech: SomeExamples

September 11, 2006

Alex Sparreboom, Ph.D.

Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Paclitaxel chemotherapy: from empiricism to a mechanism-based formulation strategy   

May 15, 2006

R. Kiplin Guy, Ph.D.
Chemical Biology & Therapeutics, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN

Screening and Synthesis for Novel Antimalarials

April 10, 2006

Christopher M. Waters, Ph.D.

UTHSC Dept of Physiology

Lung Injury and Repair:  Biomechanics and Wound Healing

March 23, 2006

Christopher A. Lipinski, Ph.D.
Pfizer Global R&D, Groton, CT

Target Validation, Drug Discovery, Chemistry Space and Biology-Chemistry Disconnects

January 23, 2006

Edwards A. Park, Ph.D.

UTHSC Dept of Pharmacology

Nuclear receptors and the regulation of metabolic genes

November 21, 2005

Anisul Quadir, Ph.D., R.Ph.

BASF North America   

Characterization of Newly Developed Micronized Poloxamers for Poorly
Soluble Drugs

November 14, 2005

Alexander V. Kabanov, Ph.D.

Center for Drug Delivery and Nanomedicine University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE

Advances in Polymer Therapeutics and Nanomedicine

September 26, 2005

ChiYuan Wu, Ph.D.

Bristol-Myers Squibb, Princeton, NJ

When BCS and PK Collide: Implications for Biopharmaceutical Science

September 19, 2005

Daniel L. Baker, Ph.D.

UTHSC Dept of Medicine - Vascular Biology 

Characterization of protein targets of lysophosphatidic acid

August 29, 2005

Lawrence J. Lesko, Ph.D.

Center for Drug Evaluation and Research

U.S. Food & Drug Administration, Rockville, MD

Pharmacogenomics: Facts Catching up to the Hype

August 22, 2005

Matthias Schwab, M.D.

Dr. Margarete Fischer-Bosch Institute of Clinical Pharmacology, Stuttgart, Germany

Children are not Small Adults: Rationale for Definition of Subpopulations  

April 25, 2005

Abby L. Parrill, Ph.D.

University of Memphis, Memphis, TN

Model-Driven Investigation of Phospholipid Receptor Structural Biology

March 24, 2005

John F. Carpenter, Ph.D.

University of Colorado, Denver, CO

Protein Aggregation in Aqueous Solution Formulations: Pathways and Inhibition

February 28, 2005

Trevor Sweatman, Ph.D.

UTHSC Dept of Pharmacology

Mitochondrial PKC as a Developmental Drug Target: The Long and Winding Road

December 13, 2004

Jeffrey Hughes, Ph.D.

University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

Gene Delivery: A pharmaceutics perspective

November 29, 2004

Jeffrey S. Barrett, Ph.D.

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Modeling and simulation approaches in the guidance of pediatric dose selection for the LMWH tinzaparin

October 25, 2004

Allen Hoffman, Ph.D.

University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Smart Polymers for Drug and Gene Delivery

October 11, 2004

Kenneth D. Hinds, Ph.D

PR Pharmaceuticals, Fort Collins, CO

Bioconjugation and PEGylation for Protein and Peptide Delivery

September 13, 2004

Seng Cheng, Ph.D.

Genzyme Corporation, Cambridge, MA

Prospects for AAV-Mediated Gene Therapy of Lysosomal Storage Disorders

April 26, 2004

Donald Bashford, Ph.D.

Molecular Biotechnology

St. Jude Children's  Research Hospital, Memphis TN

Continuum Methods for Modeling Electrostatic Effects in Protein Structure and Function

March 22, 2004

Walter G. Chambliss, Ph.D.

National Center for Natural Products Research, Department of Pharmaceutics

University of Mississippi, Oxford MS

Controlled Release Dietary Supplements:

Science or Hype?

February 9, 2004

Ashim K. Mitra, Ph.D.

Division of Pharmaceutical Sciences

University of Missouri, Kansas City, MO

Identification of Transporters and Efflux Proteins on the Cornea and their role in Ocular Drug Delivery

January 23, 2004

Sung Wan Kim, Ph.D.

Center for Controlled Chemical Delivery

Department of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry

University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

Biofunctional Polymers for Gene Delivery

Treatment of Cancer and Cardiovascular Diseases

October 1, 2003

William P. Purcell, Ph.D.

Molecular Design International, Memphis TN 

Strategies in Drug Development

September 29, 2003

Guang W. Lu, Ph.D.

Pfizer, AAPS Visiting Scientist

Tropical and Transdermal Delivery of Therapeutic Agents

September 22, 2003

Mary Lynne Hedley, Ph.D.

Zycos, Boston, MA

Polymeric DNA Delivery Systems: 

A Clinical Significance

August 25, 2003

Michael Shapiro, Ph.D.

Lilly Research Laboratories, Indianapolis IN

Ligand Target Interactions by NMR

March 31, 2003

Linda Harris, Ph.D.

Department of Molecular Pharmacology

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Functions of MDM2 in Human Tumors

March 17, 2003

Richard Darrington, Ph.D.

Pfizer, Inc., Groton, CT

Rapid and Accurate Prediction of Degradant Formation Rates in Pharmaceutical Formulations using HPLC-MS

February 24, 2003

Steve Morris, Ph.D.

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Memphis, TN

Anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK):

A target for small molecule inhibitor-based therapy

February 17, 2003

Antonio M. Ferreira, Ph.D.

Computational Research on Materials Institute

University of Memphis, Memphis, TN

Exploring the Electronic Structure of Novel Classical Canabinoids

January 27, 2003

Stephen W. White, D. Phil.

Department of Structural Biology

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN

Structural Studies on Bacterial Fatty Acid Syntheses Enzymes and the Development of Novel Antibiotics

November 25, 2002

Debra Bautista, Ph.D.

Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY

Computational Studies of Several G Protein-Coupled Receptors: A Collection of Undergraduate Projects

October 21, 2002

Engin H. Serpersu, Ph.D.

Director COE Structural Biology

University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

Binding of Aminoglycoside Antibiotics to Aminoglycoside-Resistance Enzymes

October 14, 2002

Pamela Small, Ph.D.

Department of Microbiology

University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

Macrolide-Mediated Toxicity and Immunosuppression in Mycobacterium Ulcerans

October 7, 2002

Jogarao V. Gobburu, Ph.D.

Center for Drug Evaluation and Research

Food and Drug Administration, Rockville, MD

Prognostic Factors: Assessment of Clinical Relevance

September 23, 2002

Richard Wunderink, M.D.

Methodist University Hospital, Memphis, TN

Genetics of Acute Inflammatory Disease

May 20, 2002

Mary-Ann Bjornsti, Ph.D.

Department of Molecular Pharmacology

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN

Cellular Responses to DNA Topoisomerase I Poisons

May 6, 2002

James C. Bigelow, Ph.D.

Biomes Pharmaceuticals, Rockford, MI

The Apicoplast: A New Target for Anti-Malarial Drug Development

April 22, 2002

Mark Kemper, Ph.D.

ThermoNicolet Corporation

The Use of Vibrational Spectros Techniques to Analyze the Ketoprofen Content in Topical Gel Formulations

April 18, 2002

Richard T. Wheelhouse, Ph.D.

University of Bradford, UK

Tailoring Ligands for High-Order DNA Structure

April 8, 2002

Hamid Rezaei, Ph.D.

AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals, Philadelphia, PA

Effect of Molecular Weight of Polyethylene Glycols on Their Function as Lubricant Sparing Binders in Tablet Technology

April 1, 2002

Robert C. Reynolds, Ph.D

Southern Research Institute, Birmingham, AL

The Design and Preparation of New Antitubercular Agents

March 4, 2002

Kristine Radomski Crews, Pharm.D.

Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN

Pharmacogenetic Determinants of Toxicity to the Topoisomerase I Poison Irinotecan

February 25, 2002

David W. Grainger, Ph.D.

Department of Chemistry

Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO

Protein Delivery for Bone Neogenesis and Antimicrobial Properties in an Implanted Biomaterials Context

February 18, 2002

Brenda A. Shulman, Ph.D.

Departments of Stuctural Biology and Tumor Cell Biology

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN

Molecular Recognition in Cell Cycle Control

January 28, 2002

Mary K. Danks, Ph.D.

Department of Molecular Pharmacology

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN

Development of Novel Approaches for the Treatment of Neuroblastoma

January 14, 2002

Eldon E. Geisert, Jr., Ph.D.

Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology

University of Tennessee Health Science, Center, Memphis, TN

Hypothesis versus Data-Driven Research:

Which is Better?

November 28, 2001

Anisul Quadir, Ph.D.

BASF Corporation

Challenges of Solubalizing Poorly Soluble Drugs

October 30, 2001

John Cassidy, Ph.D.

Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

Food, Nutrition and the Chemoprevention of Cancer

October 26, 2001

Malcolm Rowland, Ph.D.

University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Models, Man and Modern Medicines:

The Age of Prediction

August 30, 2001

Lloyd Tillman, Ph.D.

Isis Pharmaceuticals, Carlsbad, CA

Oral Delivery of Antisense Oligonucleotides

April 30, 2001

Lawrence Yu, Ph.D.

Center for Drug Evaluation and Research

U.S. Food & Drug Administration, Rockville, MD

e-ADME in Drug Discovery, Development, and Regulatory

April 23, 2001

Peter A. Crooks, Ph.D.

Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences

University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY

Development of Neuronal Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Ligands:

New Opportunities in Drug Discovery

April 9, 2001

John H. Rodman, Pharm.D.

Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN

Clinical Pharmacology and Pediatric Drug Development:

Busulfan as a Case Study

February 26, 2001

Chris Dealwis, Ph.D.

Department of Biochemistry and Cellular Biology

University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

Structure-based Drug Design:

The Study from Renin to HIV

February 19, 2001

David Rotella, Ph.D.

Bristol Myers Squibb Company

Discovery and Optimization of PDE-5 Inhibitors

 

February 1, 2001

Wolfgang Sadee, Ph.D.

University of California, San Francisco, CA

Using Genetic and Genomic Information in Drug Discovery and Therapy

January 22, 2001

Michael S. Wolfe, Ph.D.

Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

Unmasking Alzheimer Secretases:

New Features and Familiar Faces

November 20, 2000 Clinton F. Stewart, Pharm.D.

Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN

application of Pharmacokinetic Studies to Optimize Topoisomerase Inhibitor Dosing in Children with Cancer

October 9, 2000

David C. Baker, Ph.D.

Department of Chemistry

University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

Approaches to Cancer Chemotherapy:

1) New Potent, Broad-Spectrum Antitumor Compounds and

2) Antimetastatic Oligosaccharides from Hyaluronic Acid

October 2, 2000 Bill J. Gurley, Ph.D.
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR
Herbal Dietary Supplements: A Pharmaceutical Scientist's Perspective

September 18, 2000

Charles O. Rock, Ph.D.

Department of Biochemistry

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN

Bacterial Fatty Acid Synthesis as a Target for Drug Discovery

September 11, 2000

Eugene Y. Krynetski, Ph.D., D.Sci.

Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN

New Targets in Thiopurine Antileukemic Therapy

August 28, 2000

Richard B. Kim, M.D.

Division of Clinical Pharmacology

Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

Drug Transporters in Drug Disposition and Response