Co-Located Conference AgendasCellTech & Bioimaging | Drug Discovery India 2017 | MedChem India 2017 | Metabolomics India 2017 |
Thursday, 14 September 2017 | Draft Agenda- Subject to Change |
| | 09:00 | Inauguration | 09:05 | | Conference Chair Welcome Address Rathnam Chaguturu, CEO, Innovation Czar-iDDPartners, United States of America
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| 09:15 | Speaker Introduction & Memento Presentation | 09:45 | | 10:25 | Q/A Discussion | 10:30 | Group Photograph | 10:40 | Coffee Break and Networking Session | | Session 1: Reverse Pharmacology: Roots to Fruition of Natural Drugs |
| | 11:10 | | 11:40 | Requisites of Pre-formulation R&D in Reverse Pharmaceutics Lal Hingorani, Chairman/ Managing Director, Pharmanza Herbal Pvt. Ltd, India
| 12:00 | Observational Therapeutics: A Watershed of Hits for New Drugs Rama Vaidya, Dean- Medical Research Centre, Kasturba Health Society, India
| 12:20 | Ayurvedic Pharmaco- Epidemiology: An Early Endeavour and Engagement Nutan Nabar, Research Associate-ICMR, Kasturba Health Society, India
| 12:40 | Reverse Pharmacology and Systems Approaches for Drug Discovery and Development: Inspiration from Mother Nature and the Wisdom of the Sages Mukund Chorghade, President & CSO, Chorghade Enterprises, United States of America
| 13:00 | Natural Products based Drug Discovery Girish Tillu, Professor, Savirtibai Phule Pune University, India
| 13:20 | Q/A Discussion | 13:30 | Poster Evaluation Session | 13:45 | Lunch Break and Networking Session | 14:30 | TECHSPOT-Saving time and efforts from routine work for synthetic chemists with simple tools | | Session 2: Plants - The Provenance of Novel Drugs |
| | 14:45 | Ancient Wisdom Modern Confirmations!! Suman Kapur, Senior Professor & Dean, Birla Institute of Technology & Science, India
| 15:05 | A Deep Dive on Quality of Botanical Products in relation to Efficacy and Safety Deepak Mundkinajeddu, AGM - Research and Development (R&D), Natural Remedies Private Limited, India
| 15:25 | Cyclic Peptides from Plants: An Inspiration for Drug Discovery Seetharama Jois, Professor, University Of Louisiana At Monroe, United States of America
| 15:45 | Q/A Discussion | 15:55 | TECHSPOT-Advances in Automation – Biopharma & Biologics | 16:10 | Coffee Break and Networking Session | | Session 3: Cancer Management Strategies - Are we Changing? |
| | 16:40 | Challenges to Treat cancer Stem cells in Bone Marrow Pranela Rameshwar, Professor, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, United States of America
| 17:00 | Natural Products for Cancer Management: Myth or Reality? A Pratap Kumar, Professor, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, United States of America
| 17:20 | Q/A Discussion | 17:30 | Tackling the Achille's Heel of Drug Resistant Tuberculosis: A Systems Biology Approach Nagasuma Chandra, Professor, Indian Institute of Science, India
| 17:50 | Q/A Discussion | 17:55 | End of First Day of Conference |
Friday, 15 September 201709:30 | A Peek into Life-style Modulation of Epigenomic Regulation of Cancer Progression Rakesh Kumar, Distinguished Professor and National Chair in Cancer Research, Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology, India
| 09:50 | Q/A Discussion | | Session 4: Traversing Traditional Knowledge for Novel Drug Candidates |
| | 10:00 | Metabolomics of Medicinal Plants – A Versatile Tool for Standardization of Herbal Products Pulok K Mukherjee, Director- School of Natural Product Studies, Jadavpur University, India
| 10:20 | Visible Endorses the Invisible: Validate, Make Invisible Visible M Arulpitchai Narayanan, Chairman, Arma Medical Foundation, India
| 10:40 | Q/A Discussion | 10:50 | Technology Spotlight: Virtual Herbal Discovery Platform empowered by HubScience AI Timea Polgar, Founder, Head of R&D, Envision Biotechnology
| 11:05 | Coffee Break and Networking Session | 11:35 | | | Session 5: Screening Natural Products for New Drug Candidates |
| | 11:55 | Plant based Drugs-Mechanism based Targeting Sampath Parthasarathy, Professor & Associate Dean for Research, University of Central Florida, United States of America
| 12:15 | | 12:35 | Q/A Discussion | 12:45 | TECHSPOT-Bruker | 13:00 | Poster Evaluation Session | 13:15 | Lunch Break and Networking Session | | Session 6: Novel Phytochemicals - Exploring Drug Likeliness |
| | 14:15 | Bioactive Compounds from Microbes of Hot Springs /Geysers Girish Mahajan, Vice President, HiMedia Laboratories Pvt Ltd, India
| 14:35 | Caesalpinia – Nature's Medicine D Giles, Professor, Acharya Bm Reddy College of Pharmacy, India
| 14:55 | Tentative:Bioprospecting- search for novel medicinal drugs R. Uma Shaanker Ramesha, Professor, University of Agricultural Sciences, India
| 15:15 | Q/A Discussion | 15:25 | Coffee Break and Networking Session | | Session 7: Computational Approaches for Natural Products |
| | 15:45 | | Keynote Presentation Harvesting Nature’s Diversity of Glycosaminoglycans for Therapy Umesh Desai, Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University, United States of America
The talk will present results on the discovery of a heparan sulfate hexasaccharide from a library of 46,656 natural sequences that selectively binds and activates heparin cofactor II (HCII), a plasma serpin, for accelerated inhibition of thrombin, a pro-coagulant protease. |
| 16:05 | Chemoinformatics Approach for Drug Discovery of Novel Molecules inspired by Metabolomics of Indian Medicinal and Aromatic Plants Muthukumarasamy Karthikeyan, Principal Scientist, National Chemical Laboratory, India
| 16:25 | Q/A Discussion | | Session 8: Academic Drug Discovery (Oral Presentations Session) |
| | 16:35 | Biological Activity Evaluation of Methanolic Extract of Solanum nigrum Leaves and Virtual Screening, Molecular Docking, PASS Analysis and Bioactivity Score Prediction of Selected Phytoconstituents Anamika Gupta, Research Assistant, Era's Lucknow Medical College, India
| 16:45 | The Anti-Metastatic Effect of Mongolian Chelidonium majus L. Ethanol Extract in SK-HEP1 Hepatocellular Carcinoma Delgerzul Baatar, Student, Hankyong National University, Korea South
| 16:55 | Anti-inflammatory Activity of Ethanolic Extracts from Tinospora crispa in LPS activated RAW 264.7 Macrophages Najuma Joshi, Student, Hankyong National University, Korea South
| 17:05 | Mechanism behind the action of Triterpenoid Glycoside in Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis Krishna Das MS, Pharmacology, Acharya & BM Reddy College of Pharmacy, India
| 17:15 | Atom-Based 3D-QSAR, Molecular Docking and Dynamics Studies for Designing Potent Inhibitors against Human MAO-B Kartik Kumar Sarwareddy, DBT-Research Trainee, SVIMS, India
| 17:25 | Q/A Discussion | 17:35 | Poster Award Presentation | 17:40 | Closing Remarks | 17:45 | End of Conference |
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