Plenary Lectures
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October 15 (Wed)
Room A

9:30-10:30
Chairman: Peter Andrews
PL-1 Viruses and Killer T Cells
Peter C. Doherty (The University of Melbourne, AUSTRALIA)
10:30-11:30
Chairman: Masaaki Hirobe
PL-2 Discovery and Development of Drugs on a Global Basis
Hatsuo Aoki (Fujisawa Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., JAPAN)

October 16 (Thu)
Room A

9:30-10:30
Chairman: Teruhisa Noguchi
PL-3 The Chemistry of Drug Discovery: Short and Long Term Strategies
Robert W. Armstrong (Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis IN, USA)
10:30-11:30
Chairman: Michio Ui
PL-4 Mechanism of Intacellular Transport and Kinesin Superfamily Proteins (KIFs): Genes, Structure, Dynamics, Functions, and Diseases
Nobutaka Hirokawa (The University of Tokyo, JAPAN)

October 17 (Fri)
Room A

9:30-10:30
Chairman: Hiroshi Terada
PL-5 Drug Delivery - What Will Be the Future?
Hans E. Junginger (Leiden University, THE NETHERLANDS)
10:30-11:30
Chairman: Masakatsu Shibasaki
PL-6 Molecular Machines for Protein Degradation
Robert Huber (Max-Planck-Institut für Biochemie, Martinsried, GERMANY)



Invited Lectures

October 15 (Wed)
Room A

Chairman: Kazuhiko Tanzawa
<New Drug Target-1>
14:00-14:30 L-1 Can Microbial Genomics Enable the Discovery of Novel Antimicrobial Drugs?
Mark Wuonola (AstraZeneca, Waltham MA, USA)
14:30-15:00 L-2 Rapid Identification of Drug-targetable Genes by siRNA and Ribozyme Libraries
Kazunari Taira (The University of Tokyo, JAPAN)
15:00-15:30 L-3 Discovery of Ghrelin: Its Structure and Physiological Significance
Kenji Kangawa (National Cardiovascular Center Research Institute & Kyoto University Hospital, JAPAN)

15:30-16:00 <Coffee Break>

Chairman: Akira Matsuda
<New Drug Target-2>
16:00-16:30 L-4 New Therapeutic Opportunities in Sulfation Pathways
Carolyn R. Bertozzi (University of California, Berkeley CA, USA)
16:30-17:00 L-5 Discovering Anti-SARS Drugs Based on Host Protein-Virus Protein Interaction
Hua-Liang Jiang (Chinese Academy of Sciences Shanghai, CHINA)
17:00-17:30 L-6 Structural Biology, Multivalency and Pharmacokinetic Optimisation in Drug Design
Simon Tucker (Biota Holdings Limited, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA)

October 15 (Wed)
Room B

Chairman: Takehiko Naka
<Alzheimer Disease>
14:00-14:30 L-7 β-Amyloid and Presenilins as Therapeutic Targets for Alzheimer's Disease
Takeshi Iwatsubo (The University of Tokyo, JAPAN)
14:30-15:00 L-8 Trends in Development Drugs for Alzheimer's Disease
Hachiro Sugimoto (Kyoto University, JAPAN)
<Enzyme Inhibitor>
15:00-15:30 L-9 Design, Synthesis, and Biological Evaluation of Novel Pyrrolo[3,2-d] pyrimidin-4-one Derivatives as Selective PDE5 Inhibitors
Dae-kee Kim (In2Gen Co., Ltd., KOREA)

15:30-16:00 <Coffee Break>

Chairman: Henk Timmerman
<Anti-diabetes>
16:00-16:30 L-10 Discovery and Development of a New Insulin Sensitizer, Pioglitazone
Yu Momose (Takeda Chemical Industries, Ltd., JAPAN)
<Roles of Genomics in Drug Discovery>
16:30-17:00 L-11 The Implications of Genomics and Genetics for Drug Discovery
Trevor Woodage (Applied Biosystems, Rockville MD, USA)
17:00-17:30 L-12 Efficient Discovery of Disease Susceptibility Genes with Newly Developed Gene-Centric Even-Spacing Common Shared SNPs Markers - Toward the Genomic Drug Discovery for Diabetes
Mitsuo Itakura (The University of Tokushima, JAPAN)

October 16 (Thu)
Room A

Chairman: Toshio Fujita
<Predictive Informatics>
13:00-13:30 L-13 Drug-like Properties: The Use of the 'Rule of 5' and Other Property Filters in Medicinal Chemistry
Christopher A. Lipinski (Pfizer, Groton CT, USA)
13:30-14:00 L-14 From HITS to Drugs: Efficient Lead Optimization Using ADME-T Properties and Computational Filters
Gregor Zlokarnik (Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated, San Diego CA, USA)
14:00-14:30 L-15 Robust Methods for ADMET Prediction and Drug Discovery
David A. Winkler (CSIRO Molecular Science, Clayton South, AUSTRALIA)

October 16 (Thu)
Room B

Chairman: Li-He Zhang
<New Drug Development>
13:00-13:30 L-16 DJ-927, a Novel Orally Active Taxane
Tsunehiko Soga (Daiichi Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., JAPAN)
13:30-14:00 L-17 Structural Development of Thalidomide
Yuichi Hashimoto (The University of Tokyo, JAPAN)
14:00-14:30 L-18 Conformational Equilibria in the Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome Protein Provide Avenues for Inhibition of Function
Michael K. Rosen (University of Texas, Dallas TX, USA)
14:30-15:00 L-19 Ligands for Expression Cloning and Isolation of GABAB Receptors
Wolfgang Froestl (Novartis Pharma AG, Basel, SWITZERLAND)

October 17 (Fri)
Room A

Chairman: Masaji Ishiguro
<Structural Based Drug Designs-1>
14:00-14:30 L-20 High Throughput Crystallography and Drug Discovery
Tom L. Blundell (University of Cambridge, UK)
14:30-15:00 L-21 Achieving Extremely High Binding Affinity in Drug Design
Ernesto Freire (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD, USA)
15:00-15:30 L-22 New Approaches to Structure-based de Novo Design
Hans-Joachim Böhm (F. Hoffman-La Roche, Basel, SWITZERLAND)

15:30-16:00 <Coffee Break>

Chairman: Tom Perun
<Structural Based Drug Designs-2>
16:00-16:30 L-23 Discovery and Development of the Orally Active Influenza Neuraminidase Inhibitor, GS 4104 (Tamiflu®)
Choung U. Kim (Gilead Sciences, Inc., Foster City CA, USA)
16:30-17:00 L-24 Crystal Structures of the EGF Receptor Family
Colin W. Ward (CSIRO Health Sciences and Nutrition, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA)
17:00-17:30 L-25 Modulation of Interleukin-6 Signaling Using the Structure of the Extracellular Complex
Joseph N. Varghese (C.S.I.R.O. Division of Health Sciences & Nutrition, Melbourne, Australia)

October 17 (Fri)
Room B

Chairman: Toru Fukuyama
<Combinatorial Biosynthesis>
14:00-14:30 L-26 New Pharmaceuticals from Genetic Engineering
Gary W. Ashley (Kosan Biosciences, Inc., Hayward CA, USA)
14:30-15:00 L-27 Learning Nature's Strategies for Making Unusual Sugars: Pathways, Mechanisms and Biosynthetic Applications
Hung-Wen Liu (University of Texas, Austin TX, USA)
<Antimicrobial Agents>
15:00-15:30 L-28 Design, Synthesis and Studies of New Antimicrobial Agents and Drug Delivery Systems
Marvin J. Miller (University of Notre Dame, Notre Dam IN, USA)

15:30-16:00 <Coffee Break>

Chairman: Yoshiaki Kiso
<Antibody as Drugs>
16:00-16:30 L-29 Advances in Antibody Therapy: CNTO 95, A Fully Human Monoclonal Antibody to Integrins αVβ3 and αVβ5 Has Direct Anti-Tumor and Antiangiogenic Activity
George A Heavner (Centocor, Inc., Malvern PA, USA)
16:30-17:00 L-30 Targeting HER2 Implications for Cancer Treatment
Mark Pegram (University of California, Los Angeles CA, USA)
<Mechanism-based Drug Design>
17:00-17:30 L-31 Mechanism-based Drug Design
Thomas I. Kalman (The State University of New York, Buffalo NY, USA)