World-renowned experts will offer their insights during the fifth annual ND3P Symposium, set for June 25-26. The symposium will be virtual and highly interactive.

The event will run from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. CDT on June 25 and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. CDT on June 26. The event includes faculty, postdoctoral fellows, graduate and undergraduate students from UNL and UNMC and elsewhere.  All members of the drug discovery, medicinal chemistry and chemical biology communities are welcome to participate in Nebraska and beyond!  Registration is required.

ND3P, which stands for the Nebraska Drug Discovery and Development Pipeline, is a collaborative platform that facilitates collaborations between fundamental scientists and UNL and biomedically/clinically-focused researchers at UNMC and that unites researchers across disciplines whose work bears on novel, innovative and practical approaches to drug development.

Plenary speakers are Brian Kobilka, Hélène Irwin Fagan Chair of Cardiology at Stanford University, who received the 2012 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work on the structure of G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs); important players in hormone-signaling and drug targets, and Virginia Man-Yee Lee, The John H. Ware 3rd Endowed Professor in Alzheimer’s Research and the 2019 Breakthrough Prize in the Life Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. She specializes in the fundamental underpinnings of neurodegenerative diseases.

Featured speakers are Tammy Kielian, who holds the Choudari Kommineni, DVM, PhD, endowed professorship of pathology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center; Jiantao Guo, professor of chemistry at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and director of Nebraska Center for Integrative Biomolecular Communication (CIBC) ; Jared Shaw, Cordes Assistant Professor of chemistry at UNL; and Gargi Ghosal, associate professor of genetics, cell biology and anatomy at UNMC.

The event also features sessions focused on Nebraska’s biotech industry and team science as well as student lightning talks.