QMB Drug Discovery Programme

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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

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