Miller Symposium Schedule

Welcoming and Opening Remarks 

Sheila David, Chair Miller Committee

Estella Atekwana, Dean, College of Letters and Science

Florence Wagner, Broad Institute, Associate Director of the Center for Development of Therapeutics, and Director of Medicinal Chemistry

“From Broad Repurposing Hub hit to a drug development candidate for a rare chronic kidney disease"

David Olson, UC Davis, Associate Professor of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine

“Non-Hallucinogenic Psychoplastogens for Treating Alzheimer’s Disease"

Student Poster Lightning Talks

Student Poster Session

Welcoming and Opening Remarks 

Sheila David, Chair Miller Committee

Yael David, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Lab, Head and Assistant Member, Chemical Biology Program, Assistant Professor of Pharmacology & Physiology, Biophysics and Systems Biology, Weil Cornell Medical College 

“Uncovering Cancer-Associated Epigenetic Events Using Novel Chemical Tools"

James Bradner, Novartis, President of Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research and Executive Committee member of Novartis

“Gene Control Therapeutics"

Dafydd Owen, Pfizer, Senior Scientific Director, Medicinal Chemistry

“Oral Inhibitors of the SARS-CoV-2 Main Protease for the Treatment of COVID-19"

David Baker, University of Washington, Director of the Institute for Protein Design, Professor of Biochemistry and HHMI Investigator

“The Coming of Age of De Novo Protein Design"

Alison Narayan, University of Michigan, Associate Professor Chemistry and Research Associate Professor, Life Science Institute

“Biocatalysis and complex molecule synthesis"

Justin Siegel, UC Davis, Associate Professor of Chemistry, Biochemistry & Molecular Medicine 

“Enzyme design and discovery to improve the health and sustainability outcomes from our food system."

Break

PLENARY SPEAKER

Frances Arnold, California Institute of Technology Linus Pauling Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering and Biochemistry

“Innovation by Evolution: Bringing New Chemistry to Life"