Seminars
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2026 Winter & Spring Seminar Series
Stuart L. Goldstein, MD, FAAP, FASN, FNKF
Center for Acute Care Nephrology at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center Professor of Pediatrics and Director
The Transdermal GFR System: Case Studies and Discussion of Applications for Use
Friday, January 16 | 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm PT | PSB Room 1186
Aryana Sepassi, Pharm.D., MAS
UC San Diego SSPPS Assistant Professor of Clinical Pharmacy
Anticipated Differences in Out-of-Pocket Drug Spending under the Inflation Reduction Act: A Focus on People with Cancer
Thursday, January 29 | 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm PT | PSB Room 1120
Brittany Wright, Pharm.D., BCACP
UC San Diego SSPPS Assistant Professor of Clinical Pharmacy
Defining a Clinical Focus in Pulmonary Pharmacotherapy: Past Work and Future Directions
Friday, February 20 | 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm PT | PSB Room 1120
Tze Ning Hiew, Ph.D.
University of Iowa, College of Pharmacy Assistant Professor
The role of ionic interaction in amorphous solid dispersion stability and release performance
Tuesday, February 24 | 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm PT | PSB Room 1120
Gustavo Trossini, Ph.D.
School of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Institute of Advanced Studies of the University of São Paulo, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Medicinal Chemistry Tools for the Design of Chemotherapy Against Neglected Tropical Diseases
Thursday, March 5 | 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm PT | PSB Room 1120
Niamh Higgins, Pharm.D., MSc, AAHIVP
UC San Diego SSPPS Assistant Professor of Clinical Pharmacy Center for Compassionate Communication Affiliate Faculty, Antiviral Research Center, UC San Diego Health
How to put together a happy and productive lab team
Sara Gianella
UC San Diego Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health
How to put together a happy and productive lab team
Friday, March 20 | 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm PT | PSB Room 1120
Thibault Alle, Ph.D.
UC San Diego SSPPS Assistant Adjunct Professor
Microtubule-Stabilizing Agents: Reviving an Old Target for New Therapeutic Horizons
Friday, April 17 | 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm PT | PSB Room 1120
Alex Luli, Pharm.D., BCACP
UC San Diego SSPPS Associate Clinical Professor of Pharmacy
Kimberly Won, Pharm.D., APh, BCCCP
UC San Diego SSPPS Associate Professor
Friday, May 15 | 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm PT | PSB Room 1120
Skaggs Therapeutics: Discovery, Development, Practice and Policy (DDPP) Seminar Series
Held weekly during the Fall, the Skaggs Therapeutics: Discovery, Development, Practice and Policy (DDPP) Seminar Series features world-renowned experts who will discuss all aspects of medicinal research — from discovery to drug pricing — with the goal of sparking new ideas and forging collaborations that improve human health.
Daniel Nomura, Ph.D.
University of California, Berkeley Professor of Chemical Biology and Molecular Therapeutics, Department of Chemistry and Department of Molecular and Cell Biology
Reimagining Druggability using Chemoproteomic Platforms
Friday, September 27 | Noon-1 pm PT | PSB Room 1120
Margaret Phillips, Ph.D.
UT Southwestern Medical Center Professor and Chair Department of Biochemistry
Potent and reversible proteasome inhibitors for the treatment of malaria identified by phenotypic screening
Tuesday, October 1 | 10-11 am PT | PSB Room 1160
Vsevolod "Seva" Katritch, Ph.D.
University of Southern California Professor Department of Quantitative & Computational Biology Department of Chemistry Co-Director, Center for New Technologies in Drug Discovery and Development Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience The Bridge Institute
New Computational Approaches to Drug Discovery, Applied Towards Breaking the Cycle of Pain and Addiction
Friday, October 11 | Noon-1 p.m. PT | PSB Room 1120
Thierry Diagana, Ph.D.
Novartis Head of Global Health and California Sites Head Biomedical Research Head of the Novartis Institute for Tropical Diseases
Novartis Global Health R&D: Innovating for Underserved Patients
Friday, October 18 | Noon-1 p.m. PT | PSB Room 1120
Kim D. Janda, Ph.D.
Professor Departments of Chemistry and Immunology Ely R. Callaway, Jr. Chair in Chemistry Director Worm Institute of Research and Medicine (WIRM) Scripps Research
A Pharmacokinetic Strategy to Combat the Ultra-Potent Opioids
Friday, October 25 | Noon-1 p.m. PT | PSB Room 1120
Arnab Chatterjee, Ph.D.
Scripps Research Vice President, Medicinal Chemistry, the Calibr-Skaggs Institute for Innovative Medicines
Repurposing Screening to Accelerate Fit-for-Purpose Medicines
Thursday, October 31 | Noon-1 p.m. PT | PSB Room 1120
Steven Pearson, M.D., M.Sc.
Founder and Special Advisor Institute for Clinical and Economic Review Lecturer, Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School
ICER and the role of drug value assessment to achieve fair pricing and fair access: From the Inflation Reduction Act to new gene therapies
Monday, November 4 | Noon-1 p.m. PT | PSB Room 1120
Prof Dr. Peter Gmeiner
Chair of Medicinal Chemistry Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Structure-based development of Class A GPCR ligands
Tuesday, November 5 | 1-2 p.m. PT | PSB Room 1170
Ron Dror
Stanford University Cheriton Family Professor and Professor, by courtesy, of Structural Biology and of Molecular & Cellular Physiology
Simulation and Machine Learning of Biomolecular Structure for the Design of Safe, Effective Drugs
Friday, November 15 | Noon-1 p.m. PT | PSB Room 1120
Fleur M. Ferguson, Ph.D.
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of California San Diego
Interrogating the Druggable Proteome with Proximity Pharmacology
Friday, November 22 | Noon-1 p.m. PT | PSB Room 1120
Peter J. Turnbaugh, Ph.D.
UCSF Professor Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Towards a pharma[e]cological view of precision medicine
Thursday, December 5 | Noon-1 p.m. PT | PSB Room 1120
William B. Feldman, M.D., D.Phil., M.P.H.
Harvard Medical School Assistant Professor of Medicine Associate Physician, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics Brigham and Women's Hospital Associate Physician Department of Medicine
The High Costs of Inhalers for Asthma and COPD
Friday, December 13 | Noon-1 p.m. PT | PSB Room 1120
Pradipta Ghosh, M.D.
UC San Diego School of Medicine Professor, Medicine and Cellular & Molecular Medicine
Engineering-driven Biology: Fighting Imprecision in the Era of Precision Medicine
Friday, December 20 | Noon-1 p.m. PT | PSB Room 1120
Winter & Spring 2025 SSPPS seminars
Christopher Southan, Ph.D.
Professor, Deanery of Biomedical Sciences, University of Edinburgh Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Mexico Owner of TW2Informatics
Exploring pharmacological structure-activity relationships in public databases: from patents to AI drug discovery and back
Thursday, January 16 | 11am - 12pm PT | PSB Room 1120
Erika Cyphert, Ph.D.
University of California, San Diego Assistant Professor of Bioengineering
Microbial therapeutics – harnessing the microbiome to combat musculoskeletal and infectious diseases
Friday, January 17 | Noon-1 pm PT | PSB Room 1120
Andrew Willeford, Pharm.D., Ph.D., BCCP
University of California, San Diego – SSPPS Assistant Professor of Health Sciences & Heart Failure Pharmacist
A Translation of Clinical Practice in Cardiology to Scholarly Work
April Lukowski, Ph.D.
University of California, San Diego – SSPPS & Scripps Institution of Oceanography Assistant Professor
Discovery and Development of Biocatalysts for Medicinal Chemistry
Friday, February 21 | Noon-1 pm PT | PSB Room 1120
Chitra Mandyam, Ph.D.
University of California, San Diego – Department of Anesthesiology Professor Veterans Affairs, San Diego Research Biologist and Research & Development
Barrier Proteins in Alcohol Dependence: An Understudied Target for Therapeutics
Zaid Yousif, Pharm.D., MAS
University of California, San Diego – SSPPS Health Sciences Assistant Clinical Professor
Leveraging Big Data and Machine Learning in Clinical Pharmacy Research
Friday, March 21 | Noon-1 pm PT | PSB Room 1120
Panteha Kelly, RPh, APh, BCACP, CDCES.
University of California, San Diego – SSPPS Assistant Clinic Professor University of California, San Diego – Health System Clinical Pharmacist and Clinical Coordinator Diabetes Management Clinic
Breaking Barriers: Approaches to Treat Severe Insulin Resistance in Diabetes
Neville Bethel, Ph.D.
University of California, San Diego – Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry Assistant Professor
The Biophysics of De Novo Design
Monday, April 21 | Noon-1 pm PT | PSB Room 1160
Raymond Suhandynata, Ph.D., DABCC (CC), NRCC (CC), ASCP (C)
University of California, San Diego – Department of Pathology and SSPPS Assistant Professor
Impact of Tacrolimus Formulation on Measurement Bias: Immunoassay vs. LC-MS/MS
Niamh Higgins, Pharm.D., MSc, AAHIVP
University of California, San Diego – SSPPS Assistant Professor of Clinical Pharmacy University of California, San Diego – Antiviral Research Center Center for Compassionate Communication, Affiliate Faculty
Enhancing Compassion to Self and Others Through the Use of a Compassion Training Program Among Research Team Members of the Last Gift Study
Friday, May 16 | Noon-1 pm PT | PSB Room 1120
2025 Fall Skaggs Therapeutics DDPP Series
Kip Guy, Ph.D.
University of Minnesota
Discovery and Early Development of a Novel Antimalarial
Thursday, September 25 | Noon-1 pm PT | PSB Room 1120
Elizabeth A. Winzeler, Ph.D.
UC San Diego Professor - Division of Host Microbe Systems and Therapeutics Department of Pediatrics & Associate Dean for Research and Innovation Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Drugs for Malaria: From New Targets to New Therapeutic Modalities
Friday, October 3 | 1:30-2:30 pm PT | PSB Room 1120
Jerold Chun, M.D., Ph.D.
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute Professor at Sanford Burnham Prebys(SBP) Medical Discovery Institute and Distinguised Scholar at Neurocrine Biosciences in San Diego
Lysophospholipid Receptors in the Brain and Brain Diseases
Friday, October 10 | Noon-1 pm PT | PSB Room 1120
Yoshi Ishihara, Ph.D.
Genesis Therapeutics
Exploring functional groups of the Topliss Tree: chloro, methoxy, and hydroxy groups in drug discovery
Friday, October 17 | Noon-1 pm PT | PSB Room 1120
Judy Varner, Ph.D.
UC San Diego Department of Pathology and Moores Cancer Center
Small molecule approaches to enhance anti-cancer immunity
Friday, October 24 | Noon-1 pm PT | PSB Room 1120
Lauren Albrecht, Ph.D.
UC Irvine Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharm Sciences
MrTAC: Proximity Inducing Methylator and Lysosomal Degrader
Friday, October 31 | Noon-1 pm PT | PSB Room 1120
Thomas F. Martinez, Ph.D.
UC Irvine Assistant Professor Departments of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Biological Chemistry Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
Big Surprises from Small Proteins
Thursday, November 6 | Noon-1 pm PT | PSB Room 1120
John MacMillan, Ph.D.
UC Santa Cruz Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Natural Product Discovery and Functional Characterization
Thursday, November 13 | Noon-1 pm PT | PSB Room 1120
Xiang-Lei Yang, Ph.D.
The Scripps Research Institute Ernest W. Hahn Endowed Chair Professor, Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology
Uncovering the SerRS-SIRT2 Axis: Translational and Transcriptional Control in Stress Response
Friday, November 21 | Noon-1 pm PT | PSB Room 1120
Sumit Chanda, Ph.D.
The Scripps Research Institute Professor of Immunology & Microbiology
Fighting Tomorrow's Viruses Today
Friday, December 5 | Noon-1 pm PT | PSB Room 1120
Deanna L. Kroetz, Ph.D., BS Pharm
Ohio State University College of Pharmacy Dean and Professor
Reverse Translational Pharmacogenomic Studies to Understand Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy
Friday, December 12 | Noon-1 pm PT | PSB Room 1120
Frank Furnari, Ph.D.
UC San Diego Professor-Department of Medicine Division of Regenerative Medicine Co-Director, Sanford Stem Cell Institute Brain Tumor and Neurorestoration Program
BRD2 Bromodomain-Mediated Regulation of Cell State Plasticity Modulates Therapy Response in GBM
Friday, December 19 | Noon-1 pm PT | PSB Room 1120