The purpose of the Symposium will be to familiarize attendees with the UCI Center for
Neurotherapeutics and introduce attendees to the exciting translational
neuroscience research happening right on our campus and in labs across the country. We
hope that attendees will:

1. Learn about the vision that drives us at the UCI Center for Neurotherapeutics and our
   ongoing effort to advance drug development on campus.
2. Become acquainted with cutting-edge approaches being applied to develop innovative
   models and novel therapeutic solutions for neurological diseases. Lecture topics will
   include drug discovery and high-throughput screening methods to identify rational
   drug targets. Experts from diverse disciplines will explain how they are tackling the
   challenge of delivering small molecules and biological agents across the blood-brain
   barrier.
3. Appreciate the many opportunities for cross-disciplinary interaction and collaboration
   in this field. Our number one core value at the UCI Center for Neurotherapeutics is to
   promote collaboration across campus, especially between faculty in the physical
   sciences and the biological sciences. We believe that only by combining such multi-
   disciplinary expertise and diverse perspectives will it be possible to unlock new
   avenues of discovery and accelerate progress toward developing meaningful solutions
   for therapy development.

Our exceptional line-up of guest speakers and UCI faculty speakers include:

1. Anabella Villalobos (Biogen); Neurological/Rare Disease Therapies
2. Donna Huryn (University of Pennsylvania); Academic Drug Discovery Challenges
3. Ethan Lippmann (Vanderbilt); siRNA Brain Delivery via Albumin
4. Su Guo (UC San Francisco); GPCR Targeting in Parkinson’s
5. Hang Lu (Georgia Tech); Microtechnology & AI in Drug Screening
6.  Errol Arkilic (UC Irvine); Beall Applied Innovation
7. Leslie Thompson (UC Irvine); Huntington’s Disease Treatment Advances
8. Jennifer Prescher (UC Irvine); Nature-Inspired Imaging Tools
9. Christopher Hughes (UC Irvine); Blood-Brain Barrier Neurovascular Model
10. Melanie Cocco (UC Irvine); Voxelotor for Red Blood Cell Modulation

Whether you are a student, postdoctoral trainee, faculty member, or staff member, we
encourage you to join us, so please mark your calendars!

Registration is free!

Please register by Friday, September 27, 2024.