Distinguished Lectures

2018
Dr. F. Peter Guengerich
Vanderbilt University
How Cytochrome P450 and Other Redox Enzymes Make and Break C-C Bonds: Relevance to Drugs and Natural Products

2017
Dr. Rommie Amaro
University of California, San Diego
Computing Cures: Discovery through the Lens of a Computational Microscope

Dr. Ulrike Holzgrabe
University of Würzburg
Small Molecules For The Treatment of Critical Infectious Diseases

2016
Dr. Richard Silverman
Northwestern University
CPP-115: A Novel GABA Aminotransferase Inactivator and Potential New Treatment for Epilepsy, Addiction, and Hepatocellular Carcinoma

2015
Dr. Joel Barrish
Bristol-Myers Squibb
Innovation in Kinsase Inhibitor Drug Discovery: Evolution of a Drug Target Class

Dr. Kim Janda
The Scripps Research Institute 
Merging of Chemistry and Biology: In Search of Molecules with Translational Function

Dr. Barbara Timmermann
University of Kansas
Discovery and Investigation of Therapeutically Important Plant Natural Products

2014
Dr. Philip Low
Purdue University
Ligand Targeted Imaging and Therapeutic Agents for Cancer

2013
Dr. Iwao Ojima
Stony Brook University
New Generation Taxoids and Their Tumor-Targeting Drug Conjugates - Medicinal Chemistry, Chemical Biology, Cancer Cell Biology and Preclinical Development