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
Co-sponsored by
The Department of Medicinal Chemistry
Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, Rutgers University
8:00 am – 4:30 pm
Saturday, June 17, 2023
Lecture Hall 131
Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy
Rutgers University
160 Frelinghuysen Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854
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