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Public Affairs and Foreign Commercial Service
of the Embassy of the United States of America
are pleased to invite you to the lecture
“Drug Discovery goes back to School”
by
Barbara S. Slusher, PhD, MAS, Professor of Neurology, Psychiatry, and Neuroscience,
Director, Brain Science Institute Drug Discovery Program
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.
On Thursday, February 5 at 15:00 - American Center, Tržiště 13, Praha 1 – Malá Strana
The lecture will highlight current trends in drug discovery in academic setting and experience
learned in the translation of discoveries into new medicines. The details of the changing
environment and examples of academic led drug discovery programs will be reviewed. A
joint drug discovery project between Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.) and
the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Academy of Sciences of the
Czech Republic will be presented which is focused on the identification of proprietary
prodrugs of the enzyme human Glutamate Carboxy-Peptidase II (GCPII) Inhibitors with
broad therapeutic utility ranging from inflammatory bowel disease, schizophrenia, stroke, and
cognition improvement in multiple sclerosis.
The seminar will be opened by Ambassador Andrew H. Schapiro. Deputy Minister of Health
Josef Vymazal will give a brief survey of Czech –U.S. joint scientific research projects.
The program will be in English.
R.S.V.P.
Embasssy of the United States of America, Tržiště 15, Praha 1 – Malá Strana:
Veronika Nováková: [email protected] / tel.: 257 022 437
Jitka Vildová: [email protected] / tel.: 257 022 130