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Drug Discovery India 2017 Agenda

Thursday, 14 September 2017

Draft Agenda- Subject to Change

09:00

Inauguration

09:05

Conference Chair

Welcome Address
Rathnam Chaguturu, CEO, Innovation Czar-iDDPartners

09:15

Speaker Introduction & Memento Presentation

09:45

Keynote Presentation

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

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

Keynote Presentation

The Determinants of Therapeutic Outcomes in Ayurveda: Challenges to Drug Discovery
Ashwinikumar Raut, Director, Clinical Research & Integrative Medicine, Kasturba Health Society - Medical Research Centre

11:40

Requisites of Pre-formulation R&D in Reverse Pharmaceutics
Lal Hingorani, Chairman/ Managing Director, Pharmanza Herbal Pvt. Ltd

12:00

Observational Therapeutics: A Watershed of Hits for New Drugs
Rama Vaidya, Dean- Medical Research Centre, Kasturba Health Society

12:20

Ayurvedic Pharmaco- Epidemiology: An Early Endeavour and Engagement
Nutan Nabar, Research Associate-ICMR, Kasturba Health Society

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

13:00

Natural Products based Drug Discovery
Girish Tillu, Professor, Savirtibai Phule Pune University

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

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

15:25

Cyclic Peptides from Plants: An Inspiration for Drug Discovery
Seetharama Jois, Professor, University Of Louisiana At Monroe

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

17:00

Natural Products for Cancer Management: Myth or Reality?
A Pratap Kumar, Professor, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

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

17:50

Q/A Discussion

17:55

End of First Day of Conference

Friday, 15 September 2017

09:30

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

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

10:20

Visible Endorses the Invisible: Validate, Make Invisible Visible
M Arulpitchai Narayanan, Chairman, Arma Medical Foundation

10:40

Q/A Discussion

10:50

Technology Spotlight:
Virtual Herbal Discovery Platform empowered by HubScience AI
Timea Polgar, Founder, Head of R&D

11:05

Coffee Break and Networking Session

11:35

Keynote Presentation

Natural Products in the Prevention and Treatment of Atherosclerosis
Dipak Ramji, Professor, Cardiff University

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

12:15

Keynote Presentation

Apolipoprotein E mimetic peptides: From Theory to Therapy
G Anantharamaiah, Professor, University of Alabama

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

14:35

Caesalpinia – Nature's Medicine
D Giles, Professor, Acharya Bm Reddy College of Pharmacy

14:55

Tentative:Bioprospecting- search for novel medicinal drugs
R. Uma Shaanker Ramesha, Professor, University of Agricultural Sciences

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

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

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

16:45

The Anti-Metastatic Effect of Mongolian Chelidonium majus L. Ethanol Extract in SK-HEP1 Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Delgerzul Baatar, Student, Hankyong National University

16:55

Anti-inflammatory Activity of Ethanolic Extracts from Tinospora crispa in LPS activated RAW 264.7 Macrophages
Najuma Joshi, Student, Hankyong National University

17:05

Mechanism behind the action of Triterpenoid Glycoside in Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis
Krishna Das MS, Pharmacology, Acharya & BM Reddy College of Pharmacy

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

17:25

Q/A Discussion

17:35

Poster Award Presentation

17:40

Closing Remarks

17:45

End of Conference