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MedChem India 2017 Agenda

Thursday, 14 September 2017

Draft Agenda- Subject to Change

09:00

Inauguration

09:05

Conference Chair

Inaugural Address
Rathnam Chaguturu, CEO, Innovation Czar-iDDPartners

09:15

Speaker Introduction & Memento Presentation

09:45

Keynote Presentation

Inaugural Speech- 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:MedChem Approaches for Phytochemicals

11:10

Keynote 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

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

12:00

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

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

12:20

Keynote Presentation

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

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

14:20

Keynote Presentation

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

14:50

Q/A Discussion

Session 3:Overcoming Problems of Drug Resistance

15:00

Keynote Presentation

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

15:30

Keynote Presentation

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

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

Plenary Presentation
Targeting Protein-Protein Interactions to Overcome Anticancer Drug Resistance
Sanjay Malhotra, Associate Professor & Head

17:15

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

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

Keynote 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

10:00

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

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

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

11:55

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

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

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

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

14:50

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

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

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 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

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

17:35

Poster Award Presentation

17:40

Closing Remarks

17:45

End of Conference