Chemistry and Medicine for Modern Life

8:30  Registration / Breakfast & Coffee

Morning Session

(Session Chairs: Drs. Xiaozhou Zhang and Xizhe Zhao)

Innovation and Sustainability

9:00 Opening Remarks, Xiaozhou Zhang, Ph.D., 2023 President, CACS East Chapter

9:05 Welcoming Speech, Longqin Hu, Ph.D., Director and Professor, Medicinal Chemistry, Rutgers University

9:10 Judy Giodan Ph.D., ACS President (Video)  

9:15 John Warner,  Ph.D., Professor at U. Mass. Boston and Co-founder of Warner Babcock Institute for Green Chemistry, “Green Chemistry, the Sustainability Pendulum and the Circular Economy”

9:50 Yajun Yan, Ph.D., Professor of University of Georgia and Founder of BiotecEra, Inc., “Metabolic Engineering Strategies towards Enhancing Synthetic Capability of Microbial Systems”

10:25 Vendor Show, Coffee Break, Poster Session & Networking 

10:50 Zhixiong Xue, Ph.D., Fellow, International Flavors & Fragrances Inc, “Construction of Cell Factory via Metabolic Engineering – Designer microorganism for the production of valuable organic chemicals” 

12:00 Career Development Panel discussion

12: 20  Lunch Break (on site)

Noon Session (Career Workshop/Poster Session)

Afternoon Session

(Session Chairs: Drs. Yuan Cheng and Lijuan Wang)

Pharmaceutical 

1:20 Jun Wang, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Medicinal Chemistry Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, Rutgers University “Covid drug discovery and drug resistance”

1:55 Jin Zhu, Ph.D., Patent Attorney, Fox Rothschild LLP, “Battle between generic company and brand-name company”

2:30 Prize Drawing, Vendor Show, Coffee / Ice Cream Break / Poster Session/ Networking 

3:05 Speaker from FDA: TBC

3:40 Speaker (Pharma Executive): TBC

4:15 Closing Remarks, Yuan Cheng, Ph.D., 2023 President-Elect, CACS East Chapter

4:20 Prize Drawing

4:30 End