Events at Physics |
Events on Tuesday, March 20th, 2012
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar
- Rise and fall of a billion dollar molecule
- Time: 12:05 pm
- Place: 4274 Chamberlin
- Speaker: Olga Trubetskoy, UW Departments of Pharmacy and Comparative Biosciences
- Abstract: I will discuss a story of a aEurooebillion dollar moleculeaEuro that has been recently revisited on national drug discovery radar and will provide its less known links and direct connections to the history of local Madison biotech. The presentation will focus on overall complexity of drug response in humans including drug metabolism and toxicity on molecular, cellular, organismal and environmental levels including effects of some specific human factors and current personalized medicine approach.
- Host: Sprott