The purpose of the Great Lakes Drug Metabolism Discussion Group (GLDMDG) is to facilitate interactions among scientists interested in all aspects of drug metabolism and disposition. In its fourth year of existence, the GLDMDG organizes meetings to promote the collegial exchange of ideas on current topics of interest to its members. Learn more...
Online registration for 5th annual meeting of the Great Lakes Drug Metabolism Discussion Group is now available.
Call for Posters: There will be a poster session and all students and post-docs who submit a poster will have free registration. From the submitted abstracts, one student and one post-doc abstract will be chosen for an oral presentation.
The registrations fees for the meeting are:
Standard................................................................$100
Student/Post-Doc.....................................................$50
Student/Post-Doc and primary poster presenter........ Free
The 5th annual meeting of the Great Lakes Drug Metabolism Discussion Group will be held on May 6th and May 7th, 2010 at the Marriott West in St. Louis, Missouri.
You can reserve your room at the discounted rate of $105 per night using Group Code: gldglda at the Marriott West web site.
Preliminary Program
Thursday, May 6, 2010
Registration, coffee, and poster setup, 10:00 AM
Welcome, 11:00 AM
Multiple Transport Systems in the BBB: Impact on CNS Drug Delivery, 11:10 AM William F. Elmquist, Professor and Department Head, Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota
Probing Mechanisms of Inter-Individual Susceptibility to Toxicants with Population-Based Experimental Approaches, 11:50 AM Ivan Rusyn, Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Lunch, poster viewing, and sponsor booths, 12:30 PM
Minimally and Noninvasive Clinical CYP3A Phenotyping, 2:00 PM Evan Kharasch, Director, Division of Clinical and Translational, Research Professor of Anesthesiology, Washington University at St. Louis
Drug Biotransformation in Children: Role of Ontogeny, Pharmacogenetics and Developmental Context, 2:40 PM J. Steven Leeder, Professor of Pediatrics and Pharmacology,
University of Missouri, Kansas City
Break, 3:20 PM
Drug and Disease Model Based Biologic Drug Development, 3:40 PM Jenny Chien, Research Advisor, Lilly Research Labs, Eli Lilly & Co.
Investigation of Metabolism-Mediated Toxicity in Early Development, 4:20 PM William Humphreys, Bristol-Myers Squibb
Poster session (author available), sponsor booths, and mixer, 5:00 PM
Dinner, 7:30 PM
Friday, May 7, 2010
Rheumatoid Arthritis PK/PD and Translation to Clinic, 9:00 AM Martin Dowty, Senior Principal Scientist, Pharmacokinetics Dynamics and Metabolism (PDM), Pfizer
Enabling Compound Progression with Improved Drug-Drug Interaction Predictions, 9:35 AM Mohamad Shebley, Senior Scientist, Abbott Laboratories
Break, 10:10 AM
Quantification of Gemcitabine-DNA Adducts in Patient Blood, a Novel Biomarker, 10:40 AM Enaksha Wickremsinhe, Principle Research Scientist, Drug Disposition, Eli Lilly