IOCB Invited Lectures 2015

4 February 2015
Prof. Barbara S. Slusher (Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA):
Development of Glutamate Carboxypeptidase and System xc- Inhibitors for the Treatment of Neurodegenerative Disorders

11 March 2015
Prof. Michael Groll (Technische Universität München, Germany):
Exploiting Nature's Rich Source of Proteasome Inhibitors as Starting Points in Drug Development

29 May 2015
Prof. Peter Chen (ETH Zürich, Switzerland):
Catalytic Electrophilic Cyclopropanation without Diazo Compounds: De Novo Mechanistic Design and a Historical Twist

25 September 2015
Prof. Gerald W. Zamponi (University of Calgary, Canada):
Molecular Approaches towards New Pain Therapeutics

2 October 2015
Prof. David O’Hagan (University of St. Andrews, UK):
Fluorination with an Enzyme and Applications towards Positron Emission Tomography for Clinical Imaging

14 October 2015
Prof. K. Peter C. Vollhardt (University of California at Berkeley, CA, USA):
Saving the Planet: Toward a Sun-charged Thermal Molecular Battery