The Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences invites you to an H. G. Hewitt Drug Discovery Seminar on Monday, October 7, 2019, from 3:30pm - 4:30pm in Pharmacy/Biology Building (PBB) room 129
Seminar Speaker: Dr. Paul Hergenrother, Kenneth L. Rinehart Jr. Endowed Chair in Natural Products Chemistry and Professor of Chemistry, University of Illinois
Seminar Title: “Traversing the Valley of Death in Drug Discovery”
Biography
Professor Hergenrother received his B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Notre Dame in 1994. He went on to the University of Texas at Austin and obtained his Ph.D. in 1999; during this time Paul was the recipient of an American Chemical Society graduate student fellowship and the Roche Award for Excellence in Organic Chemistry. After an American Cancer Society post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard University, he joined the faculty at Illinois in 2001. His research interests are in the areas of synthetic organic chemistry, chemical biology, and biochemistry.
For more information, contact: Dr. M. Kyle Hadden at 860-486-8446