BIT's 16th Annual Congress of International Drug Discovery Science and Technology-2018
Scientific Program
 
BIT's 16th Annual Congress of International Drug Discovery Science and Technology-2018
Theme: Rethinking the Next Big Things in Pharma Innovations
Time: August 16-19, 2018 
Place: Boston Marriott Cambridge, USA
 
Scientific Program
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Stream 3: Industrial Art Gallery
-Arts in Billion Dollar Molecules and Next Generation Therapy

Substream 3-1: Improved Linear Drug Discovery on Selected Current Drug Targets
Substream 3-2: Novel Small Molecule Inhibitors and Agonists
Substream 3-3: Follow-on Drugs and Repositioning Drug Discovery
Substream 3-4: Novel Biotherapeutic Discovery
Substream 3-5: Smart DDS and Nanomedicine

Substream 3-6: Clinical Trial Gateway and Translational Convergence

Substream 3-7: Arts of Next Generation Therapy

 

Substream 3-7: Arts of Next Generation Therapy
 

Session 3701: Anticancer Drugs and Cancer Therapies

Day 2: Morning, Friday, August 17, 2018

Place: Discovery Room, 3rd Floor

10:10-12:15

Chair: Dr. Alain L. Fymat, President/CEO and Professor, International Institute of Medicine and Science, USA
Time FaceOn Speeches and Speakers
10:10-10:15 Chair's Introduction
10:15-10:35 Title: Preventing Post-surgical Lung Cancer Recurrence with Localized Drug Delivery
Dr. Eyal S. Ron, Principal, MADASH, LLC, USA
10:35-10:55 Title: Glioblastoma Treatments: Where Do We Stand?
Dr. Alain L. Fymat, President/CEO and Professor, International Institute of Medicine and Science, USA
10:55-11:15 Title: Small Molecule Inhibitors in the Treatment of CLL
Dr. Ryan W Jacobs, Co-Director of Apheresis, Levine Cancer Institute/Carolinas HealthCare System, USA
11:15-11:35 Title: CDK6 as a New Therapeutic Target in T-ALL
Dr. Miaofen G Hu, Assistant Professor, TUFTS Medical Center, USA
11:35-11:55 Title: Development of a New Class of Pt Anticancer Drug

Dr. Arindam Sarkar, Principal Scientist, Invictus Oncology; Fellow, India Innovation Research Center, India

11:55-12:15

Title: Capital Efficient Development of a Novel Oncology Drug

Dr. Lawrence Friedhoff, Chief, Research & Development, Roivant Sciences, Inc., USA

 

Session 3702: Drugs against Diabetes and Diabetes Therapies

Day 3: Morning, Saturday, August 18, 2018

Place: Enterprise Room, 3rd Floor

10:25-11:45

Chair: Dr. Basset ElEssawy, Professor, Al-Azhar University, Egypt; Ras AlKhaimah Meidcal Health and Science University, UAE
Time FaceOn Speeches and Speakers
10:25-10:30 Chair's Introduction
10:30-10:55 Title: Long Term Prevention of Cardiovascular Adverse Events in Diabetic Rats by Incorporation of Ocimum and Nigella Extracts
Dr. Mona El-Husseiny, Professor of Physiology, Cairo University, Egypt
10:55-11:20 Title: How to Treat Infected Diabetic Foot with Photodynamic Therapy - Risk Score and Results
Dr. Joao Paulo Tardivo, Assistant Professor, Faculdade de Medicina do ABC, Brazil
11:20-11:45
Title: Type 1DM and T-Regulatory Cells

Dr. Basset ElEssawy, Professor, Al-Azhar University, Egypt; Ras AlKhaimah Meidcal Health and Science University, UAE

 

Session 3703: Cardiovascular Disease Drugs and Therapies

Day 3: Afternoon, Saturday, August 18, 2018

Place: Endeavor Room, 3rd Floor

15:30-17:35

Chair: Dr. Ming-Yow Hung, Director, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, Shuang Ho Hospital, Taipei Medical University, Taiwan
Time FaceOn Speeches and Speakers
15:30-15:35 Chair's Introduction
15:35-15:55 Title: Can Pragmatic Trials Advance Cardiovascular Drug Discovery?
Dr. Jacob Joseph, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, USA
15:55-16:15 Title: Development of Omega-3 Epoxyeicosanoid Analogs for the Treatment of Cardiovascular and Inflammatory Diseases
Dr. Wolf-Hagen Schunck, Head, Max Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine; Co-founder, OMEICOS Therapeutics, Germany
16:15-16:35 Title: Immunity in Coronary Artery Spasm

Dr. Ming-Yow Hung, Director, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, Shuang Ho Hospital, Taipei Medical University, Taiwan

16:35-16:55 Title: Lunar Hypertension and Urban Pollution
Dr. William J. Rowe, Former Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine, Medical University of Ohio, USA
16:55-17:15 Title: Evaluation of Peripheral Circulation with Vascular Access by Measuring Skin Perfusion Pressure
Dr. Makoto Sato, General Director, Department of Plastic Surgery, Seirei Mikatahara General Hospital, Japan
17:15-17:35

Title: Network Pharmacology-based Discovery of Natural and Herbal Anti-inflammatory Agents Co-targeting Ischemic Brain and Heart Diseases

Dr. Yan Zhu, Professor and Executive Deputy Director, Tianjin State Key Laboratory of Modern Chinese Medicine, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, China

 

Session 3704: CNS and Neurodegenerative Disorders Drugs and Therapies

Day 3: Afternoon, Saturday, August 18, 2018

Place: Enterprise Room, 3rd Floor

13:30-17:10

Chair: Dr. Guochuan Emil Tsai, CEO, SyneuRx; Professor, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, USA
Co-Chair: Dr. Klaus van Leyen, Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, USA
Time FaceOn Speeches and Speakers
13:30-13:35 Chair's Introduction
13:35-14:00

 

Title: Migraine and Cranial Neuralgias: Current and Emerging Therapeutics

Dr. Paul G. Mathew, Assistant Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, USA

 

14:00-14:25 Title: Facilitating NMDA System Balance to Address CNS Disorders
Dr. Guochuan Emil Tsai, CEO, SyneuRx; Professor, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, USA
14:25-14:50 Title: A New Generation of Conformation-specific Antibodies against an Early Driver of Neurodegeneration for Treating Brain Injury and Alzheimer's Disease
Dr. Xiao Zhen Zhou, Assistant Professor, Division of Translational Therapeutics, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, USA
14:50-15:15  

Title: The Importance of Incorporating Upper Motor Neurons in Preclinical Assays for Drug Discovery Efforts

Dr. P. Hande Ozdinler, Associate Professor, Department of Neurology, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
15:15-15:30 Coffee Break
15:30-15:55 Title: Development of Novel Therapeutics for Treatment of Huntington's Disease
Dr. Xin Qi, Associate Professor, Case Western Reserve University, USA
15:55-16:20 Title: Hydralazine Induces Stress Resistance and Extends C. elegans Lifespan by Activating the NRF2/SKN-1 Signaling Pathway
Dr. Hamid Mirzaei, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA
16:25-16:45

Title: Lipoxygenase Inhibition as a Multipronged Strategy to Treat Stroke

Dr. Klaus van Leyen, Associate Professor, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA

16:45-17:10  

Title: M3 Biotechnology: Neuro-regenerative Disease-modifying Therapies

Dr. Kevin Church, Senior Research Scientist, M3 Biotechnology, Inc., USA

 

Session 3705: Other Disease Drugs and Therapies

Day 3: Afternoon, Saturday, August 18, 2018

Place: Discovery Room, 3rd Floor

15:10-17:15

Chair: Dr. Lakshminarayan Ranganath, Clinical Director, United Kingdom National Alkaptonuria Centre, UK
Time FaceOn Speeches and Speakers
15:10-15:15 Chair's Introduction
15:15-15:35

Title: Repurposing Nitisinone in Alkaptonuria (AKU)

Dr. Lakshminarayan Ranganath, Clinical Director, United Kingdom National Alkaptonuria Centre, UK

15:35-15:55 Title: Halogenated Hydroxyquinolines as Promising Anti-infective Agents
Dr. Josef Jampilek, Professor, Faculty of Pharmacy, Comenius University, Slovakia
15:55-16:15

Title: Mechanisms of Action and Effects of Photobiomodulation in Diabetic Wounds

Dr. Nicolette N. Houreld, Associate Professor, University of Johannesburg, South Africa


16:15-16:35

Title: Pharmacological Modulation of GITRL/GITR System in Autoimmune / Inflammatory Disease Models

Dr. Carlo Riccardi, Director, Department of Medicine, University of Perugia, Italy

16:35-16:55

Title: Acute Appendicitis with Neuroendocrine Tumor G1 (carcinoid): Pitfalls of ConservativeTreatment

Dr. Hiroyuki A. Watanabe, Kohnan Aozora, Facility for the Elderly, Japan
16:55-17:15  
Title: Medical Treatment of Uric Acid Urolithiasis
Dr. Michel Normand, Nephrologist, Service De Néphrologie, Hôpital Privé Saint-Martin, France

 

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