GRADSCAN 2023

GRADSCAN

Get inside the brilliant minds of our graduate and postdoctoral trainees at GRADSCAN.

Join Us: GRADSCAN 2025 will be held on Friday, September 26, 2025 from 12-5p.

Keynote Speaker will be Justin Scheer, PhD, VP, In Silico Discovery, Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine.

  • 12:00 - 1:00 p.m., Room 260 - Welcome Lunch
  • 1:00 - 2:00 p.m., Room 230 - Keynote Speech: AI and Drug Discovery, Justin Scheer, PhD, VP, In Silico Discovery, Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine (Read his bio)
  • 2:00 - 3:00 p.m., Room 230 - Research Presentations
    • 2:00 - 2:20 p.m. - Nader Afifi, CRISPR-Tagging and Cardiomyocyte Differentiation of Fabry Disease iPSCs
    • 2:20 - 2:40 p.m. - Bayan Al Shahrouri, Novel Formulation For Intravitreal Injection Of Anti-Fibrotic Agents Via Thermo-Responsive Gel-Forming Biodegradable Triblock Copolymers
    • 2:40 - 3:00 p.m. – Lisa Petersohn, Targeting Carbonic Anhydrase IX with PEGylated Sulfonamide Inhibitors with Restricted Cell Penetration
  • 3:00 - 3:15 p.m. - Coffee Break
  • 3:15 - 4:00 p.m., Room 230 - Research Presentations
    • 3:15 - 3:35 p.m. – Tashnuva Rifat, Quantifying the Activity of Interfacial Esterases Towards Water-Soluble and Self-Assembled Substrates
    • 3:35 - 3:55 p.m. - Reem Mohsen, Development of Allosteric PARP Inhibitors: A Medicinal Chemistry Approach to Cancer Treatment
  • 4:00 – 5:00 pm – Room 230 - Roundtable Discussion with Attendees
  • 5:00 – 6:00 pm – Room 110 - Reception

Register now!