Session: Hot Topics in Medicinal Chemistry


MEDI		Wednesday, August 22, 2007

1:30 PM-4:00 PM BCEC -- 210 B/C, Oral
Hot Topics in Medicinal Chemistry

Presiding:	Jeff Zablocki
1:30 PM	251	Beta-substituted carboxylic acids as potent, orally bioavailable agonists of GPR40 Jonathan Houze, Wei Qiu, Alex Zhang, Rajiv Sharma, Liusheng Zhu, Ying Sun, Michelle Akerman, Michael Schmitt, Yingcai Wang, Jiwen Liu, Jinqian Liu, Julio Medina, Jeffrey Reagan, Jian Luo, George Tonn, Jane Zhang, Jenny Lu, Michael Chen, Edwin Lopez, Kathy Nguyen, Li Yang, Liang Tang, Hui Tian, Stephen Shuttleworth, Daniel Lin
2:00 PM	252	Endogenous kinase conformational switching pockets: A new general strategy for small molecule kinase inhibition Daniel L. Flynn, Peter A. Petillo, Mike Kaufman, Wei-Ping Lu, Scott C. Wise, Michael Clare, Lance Stewart, Robin Clark, Mic Feese, Lawrence Chun
2:30 PM	253	Novel aldehyde dehydrogenase-2 inhibitors as a potential treatment of alcohol addiction Jeff Zablocki, Matthew Abelman, Michael G. Organ, Yaroslav Bilokin, Guan Cao, Debasis Malik, Wing Ming Keung, Guoxin Tao, David Overstreet, Daniel Soohoo, Nancy Chu, Jia Hao, Kwan Leung, Hugh Genin, Maria Pia Arolfo, Lina Yao, Peidong Fan, Ivan Diamond
3:00 PM	254	Small molecule inhibitors of macrophage inhibitory factor (MIF) Thais Sielecki
3:30 PM	255	Sodium and calcium channels as drug targets for neuropathic pain Andreas Termin