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