Schedule (Tentative)

Jan 15	Sage Bionetwork lecture: “Defining a target for AD obtained from AMP-AD”- Dr. Anna Greenwood (Senior Scientist at Sage Bionetworks) [Target selection/Target discovery]
Jan 22	Schrödinger Molecular Docking- Dr. Ara Abramyan [Hit Identification]
Jan 29	Dr. John Irwin (Professor, UCSF): “Docking a la carte” [Hit Identification]
Feb 5	3D proteins-structural insights- Dr. Samantha Perez-Miller and Dr. May Khanna- 3D Printing of your protein.
Feb 12	Triaging molecules: Dr. Jutta Wanner (co-director of Arizona Drug Discovery center); Hit generation and Lead optimization [Lead Identification]
Feb 19	Triaging molecules: Possible Synthetic Routes. Triaging molecules based on potential toxicity. Dr. Marcel Patek (Founder and President at Bright Rock Path, LLC) [Lead Identification/Lead Optimization] *Begin to work on Final Pitch
Feb 26	What is Alzheimer’s? Physiology and Pathology of Alzheimer’s disease. Dr. Gerson Hernandez (Senior Director of clinical trials, Center for Innovation in Brain Science, University of Arizona)
Mar 4	Defining properties for Blood Brain Barrier penetration: Novel Delivery and Biomarkers [Lead Optimization] Ben Cappiello, CBO at Axosim and Dr. Thomas Hartung (Professor, Director of the center for alternative testing and Doerenkamp-Zbinden Chair of evidence-based toxicology, John Hopkins)
Mar 18	Measuring PK and create a multi-compartmental PK model using Matlab [Dr. Devin Wiley, MD, Ph.D. of Circumvent Pharmaceuticals]
Mar 25	Stem cells in Drug Discovery- Dr. Jared Churko (Director of UAZ iPSC core) (Hit to lead optimization) *Groups develop pitch [Dr. May Khanna and Vani Verkhovsky]
Apr 1	Intellectual Property Development- Rakhi Gibbons and Dr. Bruce Brugess (Tech Launch Arizona)
Apr 8	Developing your company-Pitch Deck and Executive Summary [Dr. May Khanna and Vani Verkhovsky] Also “Pitch introduction-what should be the best 2 minute pitch be” by Tony Ford (CEO of Magnitude Management Services, Inc)
Apr 15	Setting up a start-up (start-up Tucson)
Apr 22	Clinical Trials Design [CPATH; Dr. Klaus Romero]
Apr 29	Forge description of startup competition over the summer *Groups present more advanced pitch and preparing for your final pitch Open Class to work on the final Pitch
Finals Week	Final Pitch (Judged by Eller Students, Startup companies, Tech Launch Arizona) (3:30-5:30 PM)