Conference Program
 
MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY

August 5-10, 2001
Colby-Sawyer College
New London, NH

Chair:
Kelvin Cooper

Vice Chair:
John E. Macor

Sunday, August 5th

2:00 PM - 8 PMArrival & Registration
4:30 PM - 6 PMWelcoming Mixer
6:00 PM - 7:00 PMDinner

Sunday Evening SessionTopics in Drug Safety
Discussion Leader: Joel Barrish (BMS)

7:15 PM - 7:30 PMIntroduction and Conference Welcome
7:30 PM - 8:00 PMKathleen Uhl (FDA)
Drug Safety in the 21st Century: An FDA Perspective
8:00 PM - 8:10 PMDiscussion
8:10 PM - 8:40 PMKenneth Thummel (U. Washington)
Drug-Drug Interactions: Quantitative Predictions and Clinical Significance
8:40 PM - 8:50 PMDiscussion
8:50 PM - 9:20 PMRobert Gerwien (Curagen)
Strategies of Toxicogenomic Data Analysis
9:20 PM - 9:30 PMDiscussion
9:30 PM - 10:00 PMStephen Durham (BMS)
Predictive Toxicology: The Early Identification of Drug Safety Liabilities
10:05 PM - 10:10 PMDiscussion
10:10 PMContinuation of Welcoming Mixer

Monday, August 6th

7:00 AM - 8:30 AMBreakfast

Monday Morning SessionQuality of Life Drugs
Discussion Leader: Steve Street (Pfizer)

8:45 AM - 9:00 AMGreeting and Meeting Business
9:00 AM - 9:30 AMDon Middleton (Pfizer)
The Design and Profile of Peripherally Restricted Delta Opioid Agonists for the Treatment of Irritable Bowel Syndrome
9:30 AM - 9:40 AMDiscussion
9:40 AM - 10:10 AMGuixue Yu (BMS)
Novel PDE5 Inhibitors with Greater Potency and Selectivity than Sildenafil, for treatment of Male Erectile Dysfunction
10:10 AM - 10:20 AMDiscussion
10:20 AM - 10:50 AMPhotograph and Break
10:50 AM -11:20 AMBob Mook (Glaxo Smith-Kline)
Discovery of GG745, a 5-a Reductase Inhibitor for Treatment of BPH
11:20 AM - 11:30 AMDiscussion
11:30 AM - 12:00 PMKristof Van Emelen (Janssen)
Design of Fundus-Relaxing Compounds for Treatment of Functional Dyspepsia
12:00 PM - 12:10 PMDiscussion

12:30 PM - 1:30 PMLunch
12:10 PM - 6:00 PMFREE TIME (organized Mt. Kearsearge hike available)
6:00 PM - 7:00 PMDinner

Monday Evening SessionNew Approaches to Treating Obesity
Discussion Leader: Karin Briner (Lilly)

7:30 PM - 8:00 PMAtonio Tataranni (NIDDK Laboratories)
New Targets for Obesity Research
8:00 PM - 8:10 PMDiscussion
8:10 PM - 8:40 PMDennis Heyer (Glaxo Smith-Kline)
NPY5 Antagonists for Obesity
8:40 PM - 8:50 PMDiscussion
8:50 PM - 9:20 PMAl Robichaud (Dupont)
A Novel Approach to the Treatment of Obesity. The Design and Synthesis of Orally Bioavailable, Selective 5-HT2C Agonists
9:20 PM - 9:30 PMDiscussion
9:30 PM - 10:00 PMBrad Morgan (Pfizer)
Selective Glucocorticoid Receptor Modulators
10:00 PM - 10:10 PM Discussion

Tuesday, August 7th

7:00 AM - 8:30 AMBreakfast

Tuesday Morning SessionNew Approaches to Treating Atherosclerosis
Discussion Leader: Christine Tarby (DuPont)

9:00 AM - 9:30 AMMark Kowala (BMS)
Beyond Traditional Cardiovascular Risk Factors - Treating Atherosclerosis as a Chronic Inflammatory Disease
9:30 AM - 9:40 AMDiscussion
9:40 AM - 10:10 AMColin Leach (Glaxo Smith-Kline)
Lp-PLA2 inhibitors - Novel, non lipid lowering drugs for atherosclerosis
10:10 AM - 10:20 AMDiscussion
10:20 AM - 10:50 AMBreak
10:50 AM -11:20 AMHuw Davies (AstraZeneca)
Identification of novel CCR2b antagonists for the treatment of inflammatory conditions including atherosclerosis
11:20 AM - 11:30 AMDiscussion
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM Jon L. Collins (Glaxo Smith-Kline)
LXR Agonists and Atherosclerosis
12:00 PM - 12:10 PMDiscussion

12:30 PM - 1:30 PMLunch
12:10 PM - 5:00 PMFREE TIME (organized annual East/West Softball game)
5:00 PM - 6:00 PMPOSTER SESSION #1 (Discussion Leader: John Mallamo [Cephalon])
6:00 PM - 7:00 PMDinner

Tuesday Evening SessionNew Approaches for the Prevention/ Treatment of Osteoporosis
Discussion Leader: Mark Duggan (Merck)

7:30 PM - 8:00 PMSevgi Rodan (Merck)
New Molecular Targets for Inhibition of Bone Resorption
8:00 PM - 8:10 PMDiscussion
8:10 PM - 8:40 PMRobert Marquis (Glaxo Smith-Kline)
Inhibition of the Cysteine Protease Cathepsin K
8:40 PM - 8:50 PMDiscussion
8:50 PM - 9:20 PMEva Altmann (Novartis)
N-Acyl-a-amino acid-(arylaminoethyl)amides Represent a New Class of Selective Non-covalent Inhibitors of Cathepsin K
9:20 PM - 9:30 PMDiscussion
9:30 PM - 10:00 PMRobert Meissner (Merck)
Tetrahydronaphthyridine-Containing Antagonists of the Integrin avb3
10:00 PM - 10:10 PMDiscussion

Wednesday, August 8th

7:00 AM - 8:30 AMBreakfast

Wednesday Morning SessionNew Approaches to Treating Microbial Infections
Discussion Leader: Joanne Bronson (BMS)

9:00 AM - 9:30 AMDavid Payne (Glaxo Smith-Kline)
The Impact of Genomics on Antibacterial Discovery
9:30 AM - 9:40 AMDiscussion
9:40 AM - 10:10 AMMichael Barbachyn (Pharmacia Upjohn)
Recent Developments with Oxazolidinone Antibacterial Agents
10:10 AM - 10:20 AMDiscussion
10:20 AM - 10:50 AMElection of Vice-Chair Elect and Break
10:50 AM - 11:20 AM Thomas Renau (Microcide Pharmaceuticals)
Developing Inhibitors of Efflux Pumps in Pseudomonas aeruginosa: Program Challenges and SAR
11:20 AM - 11:30 AMDiscussion
11:30 AM - 12:00 PMMarvin Miller (University of Notre Dame)
Design, Synthesis, and Study of New Antimicrobial Agents and Drug Delivery Systems
12:00 PM - 12:10 PMDiscussion

12:30 PM - 1:30 PMLunch
12:10 PM - 5:00 PMFREE TIME (organized annual Vice-Chair Elect Golf Tournament)
5:00 PM - 6:00 PMPOSTER SESSION #2 (Discussion Leader: John Mallamo [Cephalon])
6:00 PM - 7:00 PMDinner

Wednesday Evening SessionDrugs Modulating Kinases and Phosphatase
Discussion Leader: Celia Dominguez (Amgen)

7:30 PM - 8:00 PMRick Kendall (Amgen): Biological Overview of Kinases and Phosphatases
8:00 PM - 8:10 PMDiscussion
8:10 PM - 8:40 PMHenrik Sune Andersen (Novo Nordisk)
PTP1B (diabetes, inflammation)
8:40 PM - 8:50 PMDiscussion
8:50 PM - 9:20 PMPaul Manley (Novartis)
GLIVEC (STI571): A tyrosine kinase inhibitor tailored for leukemia therapy
9:20 PM - 9:30 PMDiscussion
9:30 PM - 10:00 PMAllan Wagman (Chiron)
GSK3
10:00 PM - 10:10 PMDiscussion

Thursday, August 9th

7:00 AM - 8:30 AMBreakfast

Thursday Morning SessionSpecial Topics
Discussion Leader: John Lowe (Pfizer)

9:00 AM - 9:30 AMGeorge Chang (Pfizer)
Discovery of a potent, orally active and clinically efficacious MTP inhibitor via a high-speed synthesis paradigm
9:30 AM - 9:40 AMDiscussion
9:40 AM - 10:10 AMPaul Ornstein (Lilly)
The discovery of potent, selective mGluR5 antagonists and their activity as anti-migraine agents
10:10 AM - 10:20 AMDiscussion
10:20 AM - 10:50 AMBreak
10:50 AM -11:20 AMGeorge Muller (Celgene)
Clinical activity of novel PDE4 inhibitors
11:20 AM - 11:30 AMDiscussion
11:30 AM - 12:00 PMIyassu Sebhat (Merck)
The erectogenic activity of small molecule MC4-R agonists
12:00 PM - 12:10 PMDiscussion

12:30 PM - 1:30 PMLunch
5:00 PM - 6:00 PMChairman's Social/Mixer
6:00 PM - 7:00 PMDinner

Thursday Evening SessionNew Drugs for Treating Alzheimer's Disease
Discussion Leader: Donna Huyrn (Wyeth-Ayerst)

7:30 PM - 8:00 PMSteve Jacobsen (Wyeth-Ayerst)
Approaches to Alzheimer's Disease
8:00 PM - 8:10 PMDiscussion
8:10 PM - 8:40 PMJames Audia (Lilly)
Inhibitors of APP Processing
8:40 PM - 8:50 PMDiscussion
8:50 PM - 9:20 PMMark Findeis (Praecis Pharmaceuticals)
Inhibitors of b-amyloid Aggregation
9:20 PM - 9:30 PMDiscussion

END OF SCIENTIFIC SESSION

Friday, August 10th

7:00 AM - 8:30 AMBreakfast
9:00 AMBus Departs for Logan Airport


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