A Decade of Discovery

Advancing Drug Discovery and Translation at WashU

Celebrating a WashU Center for Drug Discovery milestone by highlighting projects that advance science toward new therapeutic opportunities.

Time	Session
8:15-8:45 a.m.	Continental breakfast
8:45–9:05 a.m.	Ron Dolle Welcome CDD 10YAS
9:05-9:30 a.m.	Doug Frantz Innovation at WashU
9:30–10:15 a.m.	Aaron DiAntonio Drugging the SARM1 Axon Degeneration Pathway: A Second Bite at the Apple
10:15-10:30 a.m.	Break
10:15–11:00 a.m.	Mark Rutherford Subtype-Selective AMPA Receptor Antagonists for Hyperexcitability Disorders
11:00–11:45 a.m.	Priyanka Verma Targeting ALC1 ATPase activity as a new synthetic lethal strategy in BRCA-mutant cancers
11:45 a.m.–1:00 p.m.	Lunch buffet
1:00–1:45 p.m.	Maggie Chen Developing molecular therapeutics for genetic kidney disease
1:45–2:30 p.m.	Jeffrey Millman Diabetes Cell Replacement Therapy using Stem Cell-Derived Islets
2:30–2:45 p.m.	Break
2:45–3:30 p.m.	Jim Janetka Harnessing inhibitors of kinases for parasitic diseases
3:30 PM	Adjourn