Left to Right: Ryan Clark, Graeme Freestone, Erica Campbell, Mark Tichenor and Ben Pratt

Academics to IndustrySan Diego Section

Academics to Industry

• Event: Introduction to medicinal chemistry designed for chemistry graduate students and post docs.

• Concept: The younger chemists perspective on industry careers– Graduate programs in chemistry often do not expose students to industry careers

– Medicinal chemists need to be able to interface with other scientific disciplines

– Younger chemists are able to teach basic concepts in medicinal chemistry to graduate students with the appropriate level of detail (biology concepts focus on “why” not “how”)

• Presenters: Five younger chemists with diverse experience• Intro to Medicinal Chemistry-The Basics (Erica Campbell)

• Drug Metabolism (Mark Tichenor)

• Barriers to Exposure (Graeme Freestone)

• In Vitro Biology (Ben Pratt)

• The Role of In Vivo Studies in Drug Development (Ryan Clark)

Event Planning

• Venue: The Scripps Research Institute, UC Los Angeles, UC San Diego• Funding: 2011 Innovative Projects Grant, YCC budget• Planning committee: Younger Chemists

• Impact Assessment: • Attendance maintained (90-110 students) over five seminars• Very engaged, thoughtful questions• Feedback forms• Asked to return in the future • Some students have attended the seminar series twice