Archive for March, 2007

First Annual CDD Community Meeting

Monday, March 5th, 2007

The meeting provided new perspectives on collaborative research,
scientific community development and global health, with a focus on
infectious diseases of the developing world.

We had 114 people register, 10 posters presented and many great speakers.

Presentation Videos and Slides (PDF):

  • Developing drugs for neglected parasitic diseases in an academic incubator
    James McKerrow, PhD,
    Sandler Center/QB3, UCSF
    video | slides
  • Mining Small Molecule Probes of Human Parasite Proteases from Libraries of Covalent Inhibitors
    Matt Bogyo, PhD,
    Stanford University Medical School
    video | slides
  • Charting the Past and Proposing the Future Course of Antimalarial Discovery in Chemical Space
    Anang Shelat, PhD,
    St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
    video | slides
  • Modeling and Determining the Structures of Proteins and Macromolecular Assemblies
    Andrej Sali, PhD
    UCSF/QB3
    video | slides
  • Academic drug discovery: the chemistry challenges of target choice and screening library selection
    Christopher Lipinski, PhD,
    Melior Discovery
    video | slides
  • Panel, Technical community roadmap for open collaborations and global health
    Barry Bunin, PhD,
    Collaborative Drug Discovery
    intro video | intro slides | video

Thanks to our other speakers and panel members.

The Community Meeting Program is now available for download and presented posters abstracts are available online.