Day 1 Tuesday, May 6
7:30-8:20 Mentoring Breakfast-Event Hall
Academic Careers
8:00-8:30 Registration
8:30-8:35 Welcome
Suzanne Tomlinson-Mathis, Gulf Coast Consortia
8:35-9:10 Keynote Presentation: Statistical Significance for Causal Inference: How Decision Makers Hijacked Science
Miguel Hernan, Harvard University
Session 1 Preclinical to Clinical: Observed Translational Differences
Moderator Scott Gilbertson, University of Houston
9:10-9:30 When Humans Do Not Behave Like Lab Animals
Jeff Larson, Tvardi Therapeutics
9:30-9:50 7HP935, a Novel Integrin Agonist for Acceleration of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Engraftment to Reduce the Incidence of Life-Threatening Infections in Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplant Patients
Siddhartha De, 7Hills Pharma
9:50-10:30 Panel Discussion
10:30-11:00 Vendor Session and Networking Break
Session 2 Real World Evidence to Inform Preclinical Development
Moderator Mohanad Albayyaa, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
11:00-11:20 Clinical Trials and Registries: Driving Scientific Innovation and Medical Breakthroughs
Wissam Khalife, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
11:20-11:40 Talk title TBA
Long Doan, SpyGlass Pharma Inc.
11:40-12:15 Panel Q&A and Discussion
12:15 – 12:30 Rapid Fires Presentation, even-numbered posters
Moderator TBA
12:10-12:15 TBA
12:15-12:20 TBA
12:20-12:25 TBA
12:25-12:30 TBA
12:30-2:30 Lunch and even-numbered posters – Event Hall
12:30-1:30 Lunch
1:30-2:30 Poster presentations, even-numbered posters
Session 3 Vendor Presentations – Auditorium
2:30-2:40 TBA
2:40-2:50 TBA
2:50-3:00 TBA
Session 4 Innovative Methods for Identifying New Targets
Moderator Scott Gilbertson, University of Houston
3:00-3:20 Talk title TBA
Deepak Nijhawan, University of Texas Southwestern
3:20-3:40 Discovery of Novel First-in-Class Medicines with a Suite of AI-Enabled Platform Technologies
Aimee Iberg, Recursion Pharmaceuticals
3:40-4:20 Panel Q&A and Discussion
Session 5 Houston-Based Resources for Healthcare Innovation
Moderator Suzanne Tomlinson-Mathis, Gulf Coast Consortia
4:20-4:25 Jennifer Roohi, TMC Innovation
4:25-4:30 Lacey Tezino, GCC REACH
4:30-4:35 Colby Squire, K2Bio
4:35-4:40 Allison Rhines, Jlabs
4:40-4:45 Monique Knighten, Portal Innovation
4:45-4:50 Will Tankersley, Levit Green
4:50-4:55 Jeffrey Wade, BioHouston
5:00 Reception and Poster Viewing-Event Hall
Day 2 Wednesday, May 7
8:00-8:50 Mentoring Breakfast-Event Hall (Industry Careers)
8:30-9:00 Registration
9:00-9:35 Keynote Presentation 3: Talk title TBA
Michelle Arkin, University of California San Francisco
Session 6 New Therapeutic Strategies
Moderator Reid Powell, Texas A&M Institute of Bioscience and Technology
9:35-9:55 New Strategies for Small Molecule Development
Stanton McHardy, UT San Antonio
9:55-10:20 New Strategies for Antibody Drug Modalities
Chen-Ni Chin, IGM Biosciences, Inc.
10:20-11:00 Panel Discussion
11:00-11:30 Vendor Session and Networking Break
Session 7 GCC IDDD Core Network Showcase
Moderator Suzanne Tomlinson Mathis, Gulf Coast Consortia
11:30-11:40 GCC IDDD Core Network
Suzanne Tomlinson-Mathis, Gulf Coast Consortia
11:40-11:50 GCC Drug Discovery Resource Center
Cliff Stephan, Texas A&M Institute of Bioscience and Technology
11:50-11:55 GCC Center for Comprehensive PK/PD and Formulation
Dong Liang, Texas Southern University
11:55-12:00 Center for Innovative Drug Discovery
Stanton McHardy, University of Texas San Antonio
12:00-12:05 Advanced Protein Therapeutics
Jennifer Maynard, University of Texas
12:05-12:10 Advanced Cancer Antibody Drug Modalities Core
Zhiqiang An, UTHealth
12:10-12:20 Preclinical Development Cor for Large Molecules
Qingyun “Jim” Liu, UTHealth
12:20-12:25 Accelerator for Cancer Therapeutics
Supriya Sinha, TMC Innovation
12:25-12:30 Targeted Therapeutics Drug Discovery and Development
Kevin Dalby, University of Texas
Rapid Fire presentation, odd-numbered posters
Moderator TBA
12:30-12:35 TBA
12:35-12:40 TBA
12:40-12:45 TBA
12:45-2:30 Lunch and odd-numbered posters – Event Hall
12:45-1:30 Lunch
1:30-2:30 Poster presentations, odd-numbered posters
Session 8: Medical Devices
Moderator Jiaxin Feng, Texas A&M University
2:30-2:50 TBA
2:50-3:10 TBA
3:10-4:00 Panel Q&A and Discussion
4:00 Closing Remarks