Organic Topical Group Fall Symposium

Award for Creativity in Molecular Design and Synthesis

Award recipient:  Dr Ann Weber

Date:  Thursday, November 29, 2018

Time:  Check-in & breakfast at 8:00 AM. Symposium begins at 9:00 AM

Venue: The Palace at Somerset Park

       333 Davidson Ave, Somerset, NJ 08873

Presentations

	Dr. Ann Weber (Kallyope Inc.) Keynote Address: Adventures in Drug Discovery
	Prof. Vy Dong (University of California - Irvine) A Few of My Favorite Rings: Catalysis with Metal-Hydrides
	Prof. Jon Ellman (Yale University) New Bond Connections by C-H Functionalization for the Convergent Synthesis of Bioactive Molecules
	Dr. Emma Parmee (Merck Research Laboratories) The Importance of Lead Identification in Drug Discovery
	Prof. Christina Woo (Harvard) Discovery of small molecule binding site hotspots using photo-affinity labeling chemical proteomics
	Prof. Greg Fu (California Institute of Technology) Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions: A Radical Alternative to SN1 and SN2 Reactions

Organizing Committee

• • Ken Fraunhoffer (Chair, BMS) [ email ]
  • Steve Silverman (Merck) [ email ]
  • Sue Zultanski (Merck) [ email ]
  • Enver Izgu  (Rutgers University) [ email ]
  • Michael Smith (BMS) [ email ]
  • Yalan Xing, (William Paterson University) [ email ]
  • Michael Zacuto (Celgene) [ email ]

Registration

• Registration fee is $120.00 (which includes symposium and lunch). Students: $45 (limited number of seats)
• Deadline for registration and payment: November 19, 2018 Note: Deadline is being extended -- but please sign-up right away!
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The Organic Topical Group's Fall 2017 Event

Early Career Symposium

Date: Thursday, November 30, 2017
Time: Check-in & breakfast at 8:00 AM. Symposium begins at 9:20 AM
Venue: The Palace at Somerset Park
333 Davidson Ave, Somerset, NJ 08873
[ directions | register | flyer | OTG homepage | Committee ]

Presentations

	Prof. Noah Burns (Stanford) Synthesis and Study of Unusual Lipids
	Dr. Ke Chen (Bristol-Myers Squibb) Design and Development of the Commercial Process for a Tyk2 Inhibitor
	Professor Corinna Schindler (University of Michigan) Iron(III)-Catalyzed Carbonyl-Olefin Metathesis
	Professor Todd Hyster (Princeton) Using Enzymes as Catalysts for Non-Natural Free Radical Reactions
	Dr. Dani Schultz (Merck) Remote Functionalization of C–H Bonds of Aliphatic Amines via Decatungstate Photocatalysis
	Professor Alex Radosevich (MIT) Catalytic Synthetic Methods Based on P(III) ⇌ P(V) Redox Cycling

Schedule

Organizing Committee

• • Ken Fraunhoffer (Chair, BMS) [ email ]
  • Steve Silverman (Merck) [ email ]
  • Michael Smith (BMS) [ email ]
  • Yalan Xing, (William Paterson University) [ email ]
  • Michael Zacuto (Celgene) [ email ]
  • Sue Zultanski (Merck) [ email ]

Registration

• Registration fee is $120.00 (which includes symposium and lunch). Students: $45 (limited number of seats)
• Deadline for registration and payment: November 20, 2017 Note: Deadline is being extended -- but please sign-up right away!
• Please register & pay online below with a credit / debit card. Please Note: Registration and payment are two separate steps!

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The Organic Topical Group's 2015 Symposium

Innovation in Drug Discovery

Date:  Thursday, December 3, 2015
Time:  Check-in & breakfast at 8:30 AM. Symposium begins at 9:20 AM
Venue: The Palace at Somerset Park
       333 Davidson Ave, Somerset, NJ 08873
       [ directions | register | flyer | OTG homepage ]

Presentations

	Nils Lonberg (BMS) Targeting the Immune System for Cancer Therapy
	Alexander Ruchelman (Celgene) Apremilast: From Discovery to Commercialization
	Mike Kress (Merck) Contemporary Process Chemistry Solutions: Good Enough is Never Good Enough
	Peter Senter (Seattle Genetics) Antibody Drug Conjugates: From Preclinical Research to an Approved Drug and Beyond
	Professor Seth Herzon (Yale University) Synthetic and Translational Studies of the Diazofluorene Antitumor Antibiotics
	Dennis Liotta (Emory University) The Role of CXCR4 Modulators in Controlling HIV Entry, Stem Cell Mobilization and Certain Types of Cancer

Organizing Committee

• Amjad Ali, (Co-Chair, Merck) [ email ]
• Ken Fraunhoffer (BMS) [ email ]
• Eric Mertz (Merck) [ email ]
• Steve Silverman (Merck) [ email ]
• Lawrence Williams (Co-Chair, Rutgers) [ email ]

Registration

• Registration fee is $100.00 (which includes breakfast and lunch)
• Deadline for registration and payment: November 20, 2015 Deadline extended to December 2nd
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OTG 2014 Award Symposium

Retrospective of the 2014 Symposium

The 2014 Award for Creativity in Molecular Design and Synthesis was presented to Professor David MacMillan, James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Chair and Professor of Chemistry at Princeton University, at a symposium held at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Rutgers University in Piscataway, NJ on December 6th.  More than 130 industrial chemists, students, and faculty from North Jersey and surrounding sections attended.  Dr. MacMillan was recognized for his “initiative, creativity, leadership, and perseverance in pure and/or applied chemistry.”

In his keynote address, Professor MacMillan described his lab’s cutting-edge research on photoredox catalysis to organic synthesis.  Its implementation has led to the discovery of a myriad of individual reactions. Other speakers included Stephen Buchwald, Camille Dreyfus Professor of Chemistry at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, whose research combines elements of organic chemistry, organic synthesis, and organometallic chemistry to devise catalytic processes;  Rob Knowles, Professor of Chemistry at Princeton University, whose research focuses on synthetic applications of proton-coupled electron transfer (PCET) reactions; Gary A. Molander, Hirschman Makineni Professor and Chair at the University of Pennsylvania, whose research interests are in the development of new synthetic methods for organic synthesis; and, Paul J. Reider, Teaching Professor at Princeton University, where his research is focused on new drugs for Malaria, TB and other neglected diseases.

Dr. Ronald Kong,  Award Chair and Chair-elect of the North Jersey Section, welcomed the guests and described the award.  Dr. Monica Sekharan, Section Chair presented the award plaque and honorarium to Professor MacMillan.  Dr. Les McQuire, NJ-ACS Awards Chair gave the closing remarks and invited attendees to send him names of NJACS members who deserve recognition for their scientific accomplishments and volunteerism.

Awardees are acknowledged for their broad impact in the areas of chemical synthesis, method development, bioorganic/medicinal chemistry, pharmaceutical sciences, and/or molecular recognition.  Visit the North Jersey Section’s website, www.njacs.org, for more details.

NJACS is grateful to the sponsors of this event – Merck, WuXi AppTec, Agilent Technologies, and Rutgers University.

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The North Jersey ACS Organic Topical Group Congratulates Professor K.C. Nicolaou on his receipt of the 2012 Award for Creativity in Molecular Design and Synthesis!

The members of the North Jersey ACS OTG thank all of the speakers, attendees and corporate sponsors for helping to make this year’s award symposium a success! Left to right: Professor Lawrence Williams (Rutgers), Professor Daniel Seidel (Rutgers), Professor K.C. Nicolaou (Scripps), Dr. Akin Davulcu (BMS), Dr. Amjad Ali (Merck), Dr. Michael Miller (BMS), Dr. Naresh Jain (TCRS-US), Dr. Steven Silverman (BMS)