Drug Discovery Symposium

Schedule

Fri Jun 26 2026 at 09:00 am to 05:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | New York, NY

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Drug Discovery Symposium

We cordially invite you to the inaugural 2026 Drug Discovery Symposium at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai on Friday, June 26th, 2026, in the Goldwurm Auditorium.
This one-day symposium is organized by the Department of Pharmacological Sciences in collaboration with the Drug Discovery Institute (DDI) to highlight innovative drug discovery research programs across Mount Sinai and foster collaborations across disciplines.
The program is structured around the major stages of the drug discovery pipeline: target discovery, enabling technologies, and translation development, and will feature four to five presentations per session by Mount Sinai investigators. The symposium will also feature two keynote lectures:
- Daniel Heller, PhD (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center), presenting on drug discovery and innovation, and
- Richard B. Silverman, PhD (Northwestern University), presenting on drug discovery translation and industry.


Agenda

πŸ•‘: 08:15 AM - 09:00 AM
Registration + Coffee
πŸ•‘: 09:00 AM - 09:15 AM
Welcome & Opening Remarks
πŸ•‘: 09:15 AM - 10:45 AM
Session 1: Target Discovery

Info: Drs. Alison M. Goate, Inga Peters, Avner Schlessinger, and Daniel Wacker


πŸ•‘: 10:45 AM - 11:00 AM
Break
πŸ•‘: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Session 2: Emerging Technologies & Platforms

Info: Drs. Min Xue, Yizhou Dong, Yi Shi, and Avi Ma'ayan


πŸ•‘: 01:30 PM - 02:15 PM
Keynote Lecture (Discovery/ Innovation)
Host: Daniel Heller, PhD

Info: "Nanotechnologies for Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment" by Daniel Heller, Ph.D., Head of the Cancer Nanotechnology Laboratory, Memorial Sloan Kettering


πŸ•‘: 02:15 PM - 03:45 PM
Session 3: From Hit to Clinic - Crossing the "Valley of Death"

Info: Drs. Robert DeVita, Jian Jin, Paul Kenny, Mone Zaidi, Ron Hoffman


πŸ•‘: 03:45 PM - 04:00 PM
Break
πŸ•‘: 04:00 PM
MSIP: Supported Funding Mechanisms that Accelerate Investigator-led Programs
Host: MSIP
πŸ•‘: 04:00 PM - 04:45 PM
Keynote Lecture (Translational/Industry Focus)
Host: Richard Silverman, PhD

Info: "Novel GABA Aminotransferase and Ornithine Aminotransferase Inactivators as Potential New Treatments for Epilepsy, Pain, and Hepatocellular Carcinoma" by Richard Silverman, Ph.D., Patrick G. Ryan/Aon Professor of Chemistry, Northwestern University


πŸ•‘: 04:45 PM - 05:00 PM
Closing Remarks & Discussion
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Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, 1425 Madison Ave., New York, United States

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