Tomorrow, we have the honor of hosting the esteemed Dr. Brian K. Kobilka from Stanford University to give the 2024 Portoghese Lecture:

'Challenges and New Approaches to Drug Discovery for G Protein Coupled Receptors'

📅: Tuesday, April 23rd
📍: Moos Tower 1-451
⏰: 3:35pm CST

MIKIW 2024 Minnesota faculty at faculty mixer.

congratulations - well deserved

Congratulations. Jerrett.

Way to go, Jerrett!

After lunch, the programme at #MedChemFrontiers24 starts again with the session on protein-protein interactions, chaired by Terry Moore (University of Illinois)
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The very first IL is given by Melissa Grenier-Davis GSK on Recent Advances in DNA-encoded Library Technology at GSK
#MedChemFrontiers24
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This is a review (addendum) on advances in the chemoselective conversion of amides to aldehydes with the Schwartz reagent, published in OrgSyn.
DOI: 10.15227/orgsyn.101.0081

The first full day at #MedChemFrontiers24 start with a session on New Chemistries for the Preparation of DNA-Encoded Libraries, chaired by Dan Harki.
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Tomorrow, we are hosting a special Alumni Seminar!

Join us as we welcome Vinayak Hosagrahara back to UMN to give his talk:

'Discovery of a Potent and Selective Tyrosine Kinase 2 Inhibitor'

📅: Tuesday, April 9th
📍: Moos Tower 1-451
⏰: 3:35pm CST

Here is the speaker line-up for the MEDI Division at the ACS Indiana Local Section's 'Exceptional Leaders Conference' on April 13. They will be presenting between 11 am and 1 pm. If you haven't registered yet, you can do so at the following link: tinyurl.com/3f3rcj52

A member of MEDI was recently featured in #ACSIndustryMatters – check out 'Smooth Sailing: Life After Industry' at the link below. Congratulations Bonnie Charpentier!

acs.org/industry/indus…

Congratulations to Caitlin Lichtenfels for receiving a Louise T. Dosdall Fellowship through the graduate school!

Read the full story here:

pharmacy.umn.edu/news/caitlin-l…

Congratulations to Prof. Pamela Chang, Prof. Shobhna Kapoor and Prof. Jun Wang upon winning the #ACSInfectiousDiseases Young Investigator Award!

Read our exclusive interview with the 2024 winners, now live on the ACS Axial blog: go.acs.org/8KZ

University of Minnesota UMN Department of Chemistry I love this way too much!

Congratulations to Tian Lan (Tian Lan ⌬) for being named the 2024 Abul-Hajj Hanna Award recipient!

The award recognizes a Medicinal Chemistry graduate student for outstanding contributions in academic research activities and citizenship. 🏆

pharmacy.umn.edu/news/tian-lan-…

ACS MEDI Spring 2024 Symposium on Women's Health: Disorders that Disproportionately Affect Women and How to Treat Them. Organizer Hasan Khan, Speakers Jun Liang, Wendy Young, Gunda Georg, Bradley Pentelute, Kamaljit Kaur and Sarah Temkin.

ACS 2024 MEDI travel award winners Emma Kelly from Loyola University and Rui Shi from the University of Minnesota with 2024 MEDI predoc awardee Taimeng Liang, MEDI 2023 Chair Maria-Jesus Blanco, and MEDI 2024 Chair at the MEDI Networking event.

The Long Range Planning Committee met tonight to vote on programming for the Spring 2025 meeting in San Diego! We are excited to share the programming with you! #ACSSpring2024