Seminar Series
An annual Seminar Series is co-sponsored by the Institute for Hepatitis and Virus Research (IHVR), the Hepatitis B Foundation, and the Drexel Institute to promote scientific exchange at the national and international level.
Thursday, January 10, 2013 - 11:00 AM - Yuntao Wu, PhD (George Mason University)
"Chemotactic signaling and Arp2/3-dependent nuclear migration in HIV-1
infection"
Wednesday, January 23, 2013 - 11:00 AM - Nicholas Meanwell, PhD** (Bristol Myers Squibb)
"The Design and Discovery of Inhibitors of Hepatitis C Virus NS3
Protease and NS5A
"
Thursday, January 31, 2013 - 11:00 AM - Glenn Rall, PhD (Fox Chase Cancer Center)
TBA
Tuesday, February 12, 2013 - 4:00 PM - Heather Steinman, PhD* (UPStart, University of Pennsylvania)
TBA
Thursday, February 21, 2013 - 11:00 AM - Cynthia Maryanoff, PhD (Johnson & Johnson)
"Drug-eluting cardiovascular stents: dynamics of drug release from different polymer systems"
Thursday, March 7, 2013 - 11:00 AM - Lewis Roberts, MB, ChB, PhD (Mayo Clinic)
"Effects of Heparan Sulfate Sulfatases on Signaling Pathways in Liver Cancer "
Thursday, March 21, 2013 - 11:00 AM - Gregory Adams, PhD (Fox Chase Cancer Center)
"Developing Optimized Antibodies for Cancer Therapy"
Tuesday, March 26, 2013 - 4:00 PM - Shawn DeFrees, PhD* (Seneb Biosciences)
TBA
Thursday, April 4, 2013 - 4:00 PM - Jorge Marrero, MD, MS (Univ. Texas Southwestern Medical Center)
"Detecting Liver Cancer Early"
Hepatitis B Foundation's 2013 Bruce Witte Lecturer
Thursday, April 11, 2013 - 11:00 AM - Lishan Su, PhD (University of North Carolina School of Medicine)
TBA
Thursday, April 18, 2013 - 11:00 AM - Sean Brady, PhD (The Rockefeller University)
"Watch where you step, there is new chemistry everywhere!"
Thursday, April 25, 2013 - 11:00 AM - Alexander Mazin, PhD (Drexel University College of Medicine)
TBA
Friday, May 3, 2013 - 4:00 PM - Robert Purcell, MD (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH)
TBA
Hepatitis B Foundation's 2013 Baruch S. Blumberg Prize
Tuesday, June 4, 2013 - 4:00 PM - Oren Gilad, Phd (1) & Ren Capocasale (2)* [(1) Atrin Pharmaceuticals & (2) FlowMetric, Inc]
TBA
*Regional Biotech Council (RBC) Seminar Speakers (Registration may be required)
**Pennyslvania Drug Discovery Institute Seminar Speakers