Thursday, 14 September 2017


Draft Agenda- Subject to Change

09:00

Inauguration

09:05

Rathnam ChaguturuConference Chair

Inaugural Address
Rathnam Chaguturu, CEO, Innovation Czar-iDDPartners, United States of America

09:15

Speaker Introduction & Memento Presentation

09:45

Ashok VaidyaKeynote Presentation

Inaugural Speech- Revival, Renewal and Renaissance in Ayurvedic Therapeutics as Paths to Natural Drugs
Ashok Vaidya, Research Director, MRC- Kasturba Health Society, India

10:25

Q/A Discussion

10:30

Group Photograph

10:40

Coffee Break and Networking Session


Session 1:MedChem Approaches for Phytochemicals

11:10

Jonathan BaellKeynote Presentation

Your Natural Product contains a Promiscuous PAINS Motif: Is It Useful as a Biochemical Probe or in Drug Discovery?
Jonathan Baell, Professor , Monash University, Australia

11:40

Design and Development of Modern Efficacious Formulations of Aloe vera and Study of their Quality Aspects
Anubha Khale, Principal & HOD-Pharmaceutics, University of Mumbai, India

12:00

Supercritical CO2 Extraction of Herbal Drugs
Ram B Gupta, Associate Dean for Research School of Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University, United States of America

The presenter will discuss some of the recent cases of herbal extraction that have led to clinical use.

12:20

Ram VishwakarmaKeynote Presentation

Discovery and Preclinical Development of IIIM-290, an Orally Active CDK Inhibitor
Ram Vishwakarma, Director, Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine, India

12:50

Q/A Discussion

13:00

Poster Evaluation Session

13:15

Lunch Break and Networking Session


Session 2:Techniques for Development of Novel Biomolecules

14:00

Designing Naturally Occurring Glycosaminoglycan Structures for a Wide Spectrum of Biomedical Applications
Kuberan Balagurunathan, Professor, University of Utah Health Sciences Center, United States of America

14:20

Umesh DesaiKeynote Presentation

Biotechnology-based Methods to Prepare Natural Glycosaminoglycan Oligosaccharides
Umesh Desai, Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University, United States of America

14:50

Q/A Discussion


Session 3:Overcoming Problems of Drug Resistance

15:00

Ramaiah MuthyalaKeynote Presentation

Old Dogs – New Tricks: Therapeutics for Antibiotic Drug Resistance Infections
Ramaiah Muthyala, Associate Professor, University of Minnesota, United States of America

15:30

Mukund ChorghadeKeynote Presentation

Process Chemistry Driven Drug Discovery: An Insider’s Perspective
Mukund Chorghade, President & CSO, Chorghade Enterprises, United States of America

15:50

TECHSPOT-Computational tools for designing and screening analogs for medicinal chemistry research

16:05

Q/A Discussion

16:15

Coffee Break and Networking Session

16:45

Sanjay MalhotraPlenary Presentation

Targeting Protein-Protein Interactions to Overcome Anticancer Drug Resistance
Sanjay Malhotra, Associate Professor & Head, Stanford University School of Medicine, United States of America

17:15

Natural Products: IMPs, PAINS, Pride, and Prejudices
Michael Walters, Research Associate Professor, University of Minnesota, United States of America
Guido Frank Pauli, Professor & Director, NARALERT, University of Illinois, United States of America

17:45

Q/A Discussion

17:50

End of First Day of Conference

Friday, 15 September 2017


Session 4:Current Strategies for Developing Bioactive Small Molecules-I

09:30

Zaneta Nikolovska-ColeskaKeynote Presentation

Structure-based Design of Selective Mcl-1 Inhibitors for the Treatment of Cancer: synthesis, Structural and Biological Characterization
Zaneta Nikolovska-Coleska, Associate Professor, University of Michigan, United States of America

10:00

Small Molecules as Tools for Biological Systems Manipulation
Raman Parkesh, Principal Scientist, CSIR-IMTECH, India

10:20

Q/A Discussion

10:30

TECHSPOT-Pharmaceutical HTS solutions

10:45

Coffee Break and Networking Session


Session 5:Current Strategies for Developing Bioactive Small Molecules-II

11:15

Expeditious Synthesis of Bacterial Glycoconjugates
Suvarn Kulkarni, Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India

11:35

Study of DNA Interaction with Co (III) Complexes bearing Hydroxamic Acid and 1, 10­ phenanthroline as a Co­ligand
Fahmida Khan, Professor & Head, National Institute of Technology, India

11:55

Boronic acid based Small Molecules as Potential Anticancer Agents
Amit Shard, Assistant Professor, NIPER Ahmedabad, India

12:15

Q/A Discussion


Session 6:Receptor Inhibition - Successful Strategy for Alteration of Biological Response-I

12:25

Histone Acetyltransferase Inhibitors, From Screening to Optimization - A Tricky Track
Jonathan Baell, Professor , Monash University, Australia

12:45

EGFR Structure-based Bioactive Pharmacophore Model for Identifying Next-Generation Kinase Inhibitors against Clinically Relevant Mutations
C Gopi Mohan, Associate Professor, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University, India

13:05

Q/A Discussion

13:10

Poster Evaluation Session

13:30

Lunch Break and Networking Session


Session 7:Receptor Inhibition - Successful Strategy for Alteration of Biological-II

14:30

Freezing Essential Enzyme Motion for Catalysis: An Efficient Approach for Shikimate Kinase Inhibition
Concepción González-Bello, Professor, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain

14:50

Design, Synthesis and Optimization of bis-amide Derivatives as CSF1R Inhibitors
Sreekanth Ramachandran, Associate Director, Integral Biosciences Pvt Ltd, India


15:10

Q/A Discussion

15:20

Coffee Break and Networking Session


Session 8: Computational Approaches for Natural Products

15:45

Harvesting Nature’s Diversity of Glycosaminoglycans for Therapy
Umesh Desai, Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University, United States of America

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 9: Academic Drug Discovery(Oral Presentation 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

17:35

Poster Award Presentation

17:40

Closing Remarks

17:45

End of Conference