Officers

Chair
Prof. Lawrence J. Williams
Assistant Professor
Chemistry & Chemical Biology
Rutgers, The State Univ of NJ
610 Taylor Road
Piscataway, NJ 08854
Tel: 732-445-7916


Treasurer
Dr. Dong Xiao
Chemical Research
Schering-Plough Research Institute
2015 Galloping Hill Road
Kenilworth, New Jersey 07033
Tel: 908-740-4484




Members

Dr. Jianshe Kong
Schering-Plough Research Institute
2015 Galloping Hill Road
K-15-2B-226-2800
Kenilworth, NJ 07033
 

Dr. Albert DelMonte Jr.
Process Research & Development
P.O. Box 191
New Brunswick,
New Jersey 08903
Tel: 732-227-6915


Dr. Binh Vu
Discovery Chemistry
Hoffmann-La Roche Inc.
340 Kingsland Street
Nutley, NJ 07110
Tel: 973-235-4365


Past Chair
Dr. Amjad Ali
Medicinal Chemistry
Merck Research Laboratories
RY121-267
126 E. Lincoln Ave
Rahway NJ 07065
Tel: 732-594-8549






NJ-ACS Organic Topical Group

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Next Meeting

May Meeting and Symposium

Pharmaceutical Success Stories

Thursday May 22, 2008

Palace at Somerset Park, 333 Davidson Ave, Somerset, NJ 08873

[ Directions | Registration (below) ]

Registration fee: $95.00 (Symposium and Lunch)

  Registration   8:30 a.m.  
Symposium   9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. 
Lunch   12:30 p.m. 

Please register according to the instruction below

Invited Speakers

    William Clark

    I. 
    “Process Chemistry at GlaxoSmithKline, The Development of a Manufacturing Route to a Cathepsin K Inhibitor”

    William Clark & Robert W. Marquis (GlaxoSmithKline)

    Wei Meng Prashant Desphande

    II. 
    “Discovery and Development of SGLT-2 Inhibitors”

    Prashant Desphande & Wei Meng (Bristol Myers Squibb)

    James Balkovec

    III. 
    “Natural Products in Drug Discovery: The Development of Cancidas®”

    James Balkovec (Merck Research Laboratories)

    David Smith

    IV. 
    “From R1479 to R1626: Discovery and Advancement of 4’-Substituted Nucleosides for the Treatment of Hepatitis C”

    David Smith (Roche)

    Jotham Coe

    V. 
    “The Discovery of Varenicline, a Nicotinic Receptor Partial Agonist for Smoking Cessation”

    Jotham Coe (Pfizer)

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II.  Site-Specific Measurements of Motion in Micro-Crystalline Proteins and Biomolecules by Solid-State NMR

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Registration for the May 22 Symposium

Please use the gray form below to register.

In addition, there is a $95 registration fee for the Symposium and Lunch which should be paid by sending a check to

Dr. Dong Xiao
K-15-1800
Schering Plough Corp.
2015 Galloping Hill Road
Kenilworth NJ 07033

Note: Seating is limited. Please register by May 15. Registration will be on a first come first served basis and will not be complete until your check has been received. Checks should be sent by U.S. Mail.

Checks should be payable to "North Jersey Section ACS".

Registration contact:

Organizing committee:

Lawrence Williams, Chair (Rutgers)
Dong Xiao
Joe Kozlowski (Schering)
Amjad Ali (Merck)
Albert Delmonte (BMS)
Binh Vu (Roche)
Eric Metz (Roche)


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May 22, 2007, Meeting and Symposium -- see above

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Drugs from Academia: Marketed Drugs from Academic Labs

Friday, October 26, 2007

Palace at Somerset Park, 333 Davidson Ave, Somerset, NJ 08873

[ Directions | Registration (below) ]

Registration fee: $95.00 (Symposium and Lunch)

  Registration   8:30 a.m.  
Symposium   9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. 
Lunch   12:30 p.m. 

Please register according to the instruction below

Invited Speakers

    Edward C. Taylor

    I. 
    “Discovery of Alimta, a Broadly Effective New Antitumor Agent”

    Edward C. Taylor (Princeton University)

    Ronald Breslow

    II. 
    “SAHA (Vorinostat): The First Anticancer HDAC Inhibitor Approved for Human Use”

    Ronald Breslow (Columbia University)

    Morris J. Robins

    III. 
    “Didanosine (ddI): A Member of the Versatile 2',3'-Dideoxy Family of Biomedicinal Nucleoside Analogues”

    Morris J. Robins (Brigham Young University)

    Richard B. Silverman

    IV. 
    “Basic Science to the Market. The Discovery of LyricaŽ”

    Richard B. Silverman (Northwestern University)

    Dennis C. Liotta

    V. 
    “The Discovery of 3TC and FTC”

    Dennis C. Liotta (Emory Uinversity)

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May 24 2007 Meeting and Symposium
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New Methods and Strategies for Heterocyclic Synthesis

Thursday, May 24, 2007

Invited Speakers

    Stephen F Martin

    I. 
    "Strategies for the Synthesis of Heterocyclic Natural Products"

    Stephen F. Martin (University of Texas, Austin)

    Tomas Hudlicky

    II. 
    "Chemoenzymatic Synthesis of Alkaloids: A Multi-Generational Approach"

    Tomas Hudlicky (Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada)

    Victor Snieckus

    III. 
    "A Conducted Tour of Recent Heteroaromatic Directed ortho Metalation"

    Victor Snieckus (Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada)

    Chulbom Lee

    IV. 
    "Synthesis of Heterocycles via Transition Metal-Mediated Catalysis"

    Chulbom Lee (Princeton University)

    Mohammad Movassaghi

    V. 
    "Cascade Reaction in Complex Alkaloid Synthesis"

    Mohammad Movassaghi (MIT)

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Speakers and Section Officers at the May Symposium

Speakers and Officers from May Meeting

From left to right: Dr. Binh Vu, Prof. Victor Snieckus, Prof. Lawrence Williams Prof. Steve Martin, Prof. Chulbom Lee, Dr. Albert DelMonte, Prof. Mo Movassaghi, Dr. Amjad Ali, Dr. Gabor Butora, Dr. Dong Xiao, Prof. Tomas Hudlicky.


Friday, November 17, 2006

Discovery, Selection, and Development of Drug Candidates:
A Senior Leadership Perspective

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Poster - Click to enlarge
Poster - Click to enlarge

Speakers:

Keynote Address:
Dr. P. Roy Vagelos (Retired Chairman and CEO, Merck & Co., Inc.)
“The Changing Pharmaceutical Industry”

Dr. Carl Decicco (Bristol-Myers Squibb)
“Innovation in Drug Discovery”

Dr. Paul Feldman (GlaxoSmithKline)
“PPAR Pan Agonists-The Next Generation PPAR Ligands”

Dr. Malcolm MacCoss (Merck)
“EMEND(c) (Aprepitant) a potent, orally active Substance P Antagonist for the treatment of Chemotherapy Induced Nausea and Vomiting (CINV), from the medicinal chemistry bench to the clinic”

Dr. Bruce Roth (Pfizer)
“The Discovery and Development of Lipitor”

Registration Form (pdf)

Location
Somerset Marriott
110 Davidson Avenue
Somerset, New Jersey 08873
(Directions)

This event involved 4 Vice Presidents in charge of research at 4 of the largest Pharma compan ies in the US. The evening ended with a keynote talk by Dr. P. Roy Vagelos (retired Chariman and CEO, Merck).

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Dr. P. Roy Vagelos
Dr. P. Roy Vagelos provides Keynote Address

Speakers and 2006 OTG Committee
Drs. Paul Feldman, Malcolm MacCoss, Bruce Roth, Carl Decicco, and 2006 OTG Committee

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