The 1st International Conference on Drug Design & Discovery: Dubai, February 3 - 6, 2008







Section: CNS DRUG DESIGN AND DISCOVERY

Organizing Secretary: Allen B. Reitz, Ph.D.
Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research and Development
Spring House, USA



PLENARY LECTURES

BACE Inhibitors for the Treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease
Allen B. Reitz, Ph.D.
Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research and Development, Spring House, USA



INVITED LECTURES


Chemical Medicine: The Potential of HDAC Inhibitors for the Treatment of CNS Disorders
Alan P. Kozikowski
College of Pharmacy, Chicago, USA

Sigma Receptor Modulators
Christopher McCurdy
Department of Medicinal Chemical, School of Pharmacy, USA

BBB Pentration of Antisense Oligonucleotides
William A. Banks
Department of Internal Medicine, St. Louis University,
School of Medicne, USA

Serotonin/Noradrenaline Reuptake Inhibitors: As Case History in the Challenges of CNS Drug Discovery
Gavin Whitlock
Pfizer Global Research and Development, Sandwich Laboratories, USA

Medications Development for the Treatment of Addictions
Ahmed Elkashef, M.D.
Chief, Clinical Trials Branch, Division of Pharmacotherapies and Medical Consequences, NIDA, USA

Protein Misfolding and Fibrillogenesis in Neurodegenerative Diseases: From Mechanistic Studies to Therapeutic Strategies
Hilal A. Lashuel
Laboratory of Molecular Neurobiology and Neuroproteomics,
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland

Conversion of the Mushroom Toxin Muscimol into THIP (Gaboxadol), a Novel Type of Hypnotic and Non-Opioid Analgesic
Povl Krogsgaard-Larsen, Ph.D., D.Sc.
The Carlsberg Foundation, Copenhagen, Denmark


Glial Glutamate and GABA Transporters as Neuroprotective Targets

Julianna Kardos
Department of Neurochemistry, Institute of Biomolecular Chemistry, Chemical Research Center, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary


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