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International Conference and Exhibition on
Computer Aided Drug Design & QSAR
October 29-31, 2012 DoubleTree by Hilton Chicago-North Shore, USA
CADD-2012

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    Jose L. Medina-Franco
    Assistant Member
    Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular Studies
    USA
    phone: 772 345 4685
     
    		  
    Biography :
    Jose Luis Medina-Franco received a Bachelor of Science in chemistry from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in 1998 and that same year, he joined Procter & Gamble in Mexico City, working in the research and development department. He received a Masters in Science in 2002 (Synthesis of pyridinone-2(1H)-ones as precursors of potential HIV-1 Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors) and a Ph.D. degree in 2005 (Computer-Aided Drug Design. HIV-1 Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors, Hypocholesterolemic and Antiparasitic Compounds), both in Chemisty from UNAM, working in the laboratory of Professor Rafael Castillo. During his doctoral studies, Dr. Medina-Franco participated in research visits with Professor Jesus Jimenez-Barbero, in Madrid, Spain; Professor Alexander Tropsha at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Professor Gerald M. Maggiora at the University of Arizona. In 2005, he joined Professor Maggiora as a postdoctoral fellow. In August 2007, Dr. Medina-Franco was named Assistant Member at the Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular Studies in Florida.    BIOGRAPHY
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    Research focuses on computer-aided drug design. The research group conducts virtual screening of large compound databases to identify novel compounds directed to targets associated with the treatment of cancer, HIV/AIDS and other diseases. Molecular modeling and chemoinformatic methods are used for the structure-based and ligand-based optimization of bioactive compounds. The group also performs structural classification, diversity analysis and data mining of chemical libraries. Current projects include: Virtual screening and structure-based design of DNA methyltransferase inhibitors as anti-cancer agents Computer-based discovery and development of protein kinase B inhibitors Molecular modeling of a-conotoxins In-silico design and profiling of combinatorial libraries Structure-activity relationships studies of compound data sets using molecular similarity and other chemoinformatic approaches Research is conducted in a multidisciplinary environment with close collaborations with experimental research groups.    RESEARCH INTEREST
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    Huntsinger RC
    Professor
    Department of Computing Science
    California State University
    USA
     
    		  
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    Ralph Coolidge Huntsinger, Ph.D., [SCS] Fellow (Society for Modeling and Simulation International) [SCS] Historian, a Vice President, and Board of Directors Member Founder, Emeritus Director, and the International Ambassador of the McLeod Institute of Simulation Sciences (MISS) Editorial Adviser,     BIOGRAPHY
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    Research Interest is now Modeling and Simulation Internationa    RESEARCH INTEREST
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    Lill Markus A
    Assistant Professor
    Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
    Purdue University
    USA
    Phone: (765) 496-9375
     
    		  
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    Markus Lill is an assistant professor of medicinal chemistry and molecular pharmacology at the School of Pharmacy, Purdue University. His research interest is the development of computational methods for drug discovery and environmental toxicology. In his current research, he focuses on protein flexibility upon ligand binding and the reliable prediction of binding affinities. The developed tools are utilized for the design of drugs as well as for predicting the toxic potential of drugs and environmental chemicals mediated by nuclear receptors and cytochrome P450 enzymes. Dr. Lill received his Diploma in Physics from the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany and his Ph.D. from the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Frankfurt, Germany. He completed two years of postdoctoral training at the Biographics Laboratory 3R in Basel, Switzerland, before being promoted to a project leader in ADMET research. In parallel, he was a reader at the Pharmacenter of the University of Basel, completing his Habilitation in 2006.    BIOGRAPHY
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    His research interest is the development of computational methods for drug discovery and environmental toxicology.    RESEARCH INTEREST
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    Athina Geronikaki
    Associate Professor
    School of Pharmacy
    Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
    Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
    Greece
     
    		  
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    Arash Habibi Lashkari
    Senior Lecturer
    Computer Science Advanced Informatics School (AIS)
    University Technology Malaysia (UTM) Kuala Lumpur
    Malaysia
    Phone: +60 17 6640889
     
    		  
    Biography :
    Arash Habibi Lashakri obtained his bachelor degree in software engineering from Azad University of Lahijan, Gilan, Iran, followed by master degree of computer system & technology, faculty of computer science and information technology, University of Malaya (UM), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Now, he is a Senior PHD candidate of University Technology Malaysia (UTM) in Computer Science and Information Security. He is a reviewer and editor of a few International journal and Technical Committee member of some conferences based on computer science and information technology fields. He is also a member of some funded research projects and he has published more than 30 papers in various international conferences and journals and also five books in computer science and security.     BIOGRAPHY
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    Mike Namaka
    Associate Professor
    University of Manitoba
    Canada
    Phone: 204.474.9306
     
    		  
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    Cuperlovic Culf Miroslava
    Research Officer
    National Research Council of Canada
    Mount Allison University
    Canada
     
    		  
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    Research Officer, Knowledge Discovery NRC Institute for Information Technology Adjunct Professor, Department of Chemistry, Mount Allison University Honorary Research Associate, Department of Biology, University of New Brunswick    BIOGRAPHY
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    Tomohisa Nagamatsu
    Associate Professor
    Division of Pharmaceutical Science Graduate School of Medicine
    Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences Okayama University
    Japan
    Phone: [+81](0) 86-251-7931
     
    		  
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    Ruiwen Zhang
    Professor
    Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
    Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
    USA
    Phone: 806-356-4750
     
    		  
    Biography :
    Zhang joined TTUHSC School of Pharmacy as Department Chair and Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences in July 2010. Prior to that, Dr. Zhang was Professor of Clinical Pharmacology, Pharmacology and Toxicology and Director of Cancer Pharmacology Laboratory at the University of Alabama School Of Medicine, Birmingham, AL (UAB). Dr. Zhang is a certified toxicologist by the American Board of Toxicology (D.A.B.T.) and has been a Board Director of ABT since 2009. For his outstanding contributions in pharmaceutical sciences, Dr. Zhang was elected as a Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2009, which is regarded as a prestigious national honor. Zhang obtained his MD with highest honor in 1983 and PhD in Toxicology in 1988, from Shanghai Medical University, China, and completed his post-doctoral clinical pharmacology fellowship at UAB between 1989 and 1992. With over 20 years of experience in the field of biomedical and pharmaceutical research, particularly in the area of clinical pharmacology and therapeutics, pharmaceutical and toxicological sciences, Dr. Zhang’s research has been continuously funded by NIH and DoD, and also funded by pharmaceutical and biotech companies. Dr. Zhang has been serving many Study Sections or Review Panels of NIH, Department of Defense, CDC, and Cancer Research UK, among others. He was a recipient of FDA Advisory Committee Service Award (2008). Dr. Zhang is an Editor, Associate Editor or Editorial Board Member of 18 scientific journals such as Current Cancer Drug Targets, Current Medicinal Chemistry, and Therapeutics and Clinical Risk Management. He also has been a reviewer for more than 60 scientific journals. Dr. Zhang also has extensive experience in training undergraduate, graduate, and post-doctoral students, junior faculty, and clinical investigators.    BIOGRAPHY
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    Research interest is Clinical Pharmacology, Pharmacology and Toxicology    RESEARCH INTEREST
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    Jack Z Hu
    Professor
    Computational Research Scientist
    Howard University
    Washington D.C
    USA
     
    		  
    Biography :
    Jack Z. Hu received his M.S. in theoretical chemistry at East China Normal University, China, and his Ph. D. in computer-aided drug design and computational chemistry at Shanghai Institute of Meteria Madica, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Dr. Hu came to USA in 1998 as a Research Fellow at Laboratory of Experimental and Computational Biology of the National Cancer Institute, National Institute of Health. From 1999 to 2001, he worked at Lombardi Cancer Center, Georgetown University Medical Center as a post-doctoral fellow. He came to the University of Michigan in 2001 as a research investigator. He is now computational research scientist at Howard University. In the past few years he have been working in the field of computational chemistry, computational biology, structure-based drug design, bioinformatics, and molecular modeling, to develop pharmaceutical agent to treat various human diseases.     BIOGRAPHY
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    Research interest is now computational research scientist at Howard University. In the past few years he have been working in the field of computational chemistry, computational biology, structure-based drug design, bioinformatics, and molecular modeling, to develop pharmaceutical agent to treat various human diseases.     RESEARCH INTEREST
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    Daisuke Kihara
    Associate Professor
    Department of Biological Science/Computer Science
    Purdue University
    USA
    Phone: 765-496-2284
     
    		  
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    Daisuke Kihara is associate professor of Biological Sciences and Computer Science at Purdue University. His research interests are development and application of structural bioinformatics methods, including those for protein structure modeling, protein structure-based function prediction, protein-protein docking, and protein-ligand docking. His research projects are supported by the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation, and Purdue Research Foundation. He has published more than 70 papers in reputed journals.    BIOGRAPHY
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    Jianwen Fang
    Director
    Applied Bioinformatics Laboratory
    The University of Kansas
    USA
    Phone: 785 864 3349
     
    		  
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