It is our great pleasure to invite you to participate in the 2014 Yao Yuan Conference, to be held on Saturday, March 8th, 2014, at the McCormick Tribune Campus Center at Illinois Institute of Technology. This is the sixth in a series of annual conferences Yao Yuan has sponsored, focusing on key topics in drug discovery and designed to build bridges between scientists in the US and Asia. This year’s theme is “Academic-Industry Connections for Drug Discovery”, and as such it attempts to serve as a platform for productive interactions between academic and industrial researchers. This year’s conference is also unique in having a strong focus on students; in addition to a juried student poster session, our scientific sessions will be interspersed with discussions relevant to students hoping to find a future in drug discovery.
Featuring
Plenary Presentations:
- Dr. Karl Hansen, Scientific Director, Amgen
- Dr. Dale J. Kempf, Distinguished Research Fellow & Director, Abbott/AbbVie; Co-inventor of Norvir® and Kaletra®
- Dr. Sergey A. Kozmin, Professor of Chemistry, The University of Chicago
- Dr. Richard B. Silverman, John Evans Professor, Northwestern University; Inventor of Lyrica®
- Dr. Jian-Ting Zhang , Andrew and Peggy Thomson Chair in Hematology/Oncology; Professor of Pharmacology & Toxicology, Indiana University School of Medicine
SynChem Student Poster Award and Presentations
HR Discussion: What’s Pharma Looking For? •
Sponsor’s Exhibitions & Receptions
Chaired by
Dr. Thomas von Geldern, President, Embedded Consulting; Former Research Fellow, Abbott Laboratories