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Thursday 2 September

Session 1 Targets for Cancer Drugs (Joint With Cancer Satellite)

  • Peter Vogt (San Diego) - Cancer oncogenes
  • Roger Daly (Sydney) -Cancer phenotyping by phosphoproteomic profiling.
  • Peter Shepherd (Auckland) - Targeting PI 3-kinase
  • Gary Parkinson, London (Telomerase)

Session 2 Natural products

  • Margaret Brimble (Auckland)
  • Rob Capon (Queensland)
  • Peter Northcote (Wellington)
  • Paul Teesdale-Spittle (Wellington)

Lunch

Session 3

  • Targeting Tuberculosis (Joint with TB Satellite)
  • Christopher Cooper (Global Alliance for TB, New York)
  • Bill Denny (Auckland)
  • Technology Showcase
  • Phil Crosier (Auckland) - Use of Zebrafish in Screening
  • Timothy Wong (Invitrogen) - Fluorescent technologies for drug screening

Session 4 Cancer Immunology (Joint with Cancer satellite)

  • Richard G Vile (Mayo Clinic, Minnesota, USA) - cancer immunology
  • Rod Dunbar (Auckland) - cancer immunology
  • Sarah Young (Otago) - cancer immunology
  • Jonathan Cebon- Ludwig Institute, Melbourne

Evening

  • Panel Discussion- How to Build a Pharmaceutical Industry in New Zealand
  • Poster Session
  • Pacific Lab Products Cocktail Evening (Free)
  • Later- Illumina Party and Chicos

Friday 3 September

Session 5 Targetted Drug Delivery Strategies

  • Steve Everett (San Francisco)
  • Rob Smith (Otago)
  • Adam Patterson (Auckland)
  • David Ackerly (Wellington)

Session 6 Small Molecule Chemistry

  • Gordon Rewcastle (Auckland)
  • Gavin Painter (Wellington)
  • Bridget Stocker (Wellington)
  • Michael Hay (Auckland)

Lunch

Session 7 Computational Drug Discovery

  • Dr Ian Street (Melbourne)
  • Dr Joel Tyndall, (Otago)
  • Dr Jack Flanagan, ( Auckland)
  • Richard Furneux (Wellington)

Session 8 Structure Based Drug Discovery

  • Snezana Djordjevic (London)
  • Emily Parker (Canterbury)
  • Bostjan Kobe (Queensland)
  • Matt Perugini (Melbourne)

Evening

  • Twighlight Cruise on Lake Wakitipu - Ticket required