Title: The Science of Developing Drugs: How to Shift from an Academic Mindset to Commercialization

March 15, 2022, 4-5pm CT

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Speaker: Martin Burke, MD, PhD, May and Ving Lee Professor of Chemical Innovation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Description: Dr. Marty Burke, has successfully developed technologies out of his research lab into a variety of commercial enterprises.  Dr. Burke will discuss what he has learned through his lab’s advances in molecular prosthetics, automated small molecule synthesis, and renal-sparing antifungals. His group specifically identified a molecular prosthetic for cystic fibrosis that has reached the stage of a successful first clinical trial, one for anemias which is at an advanced stage of pre-clinical development, and a renal-sparing antifungal on track to soon enter clinical trials. The Burke lab was the first to show that small molecules could replace deficient proteins and thereby restore physiology in animals.

Dr. Martin Burke has won many awards, including the American Chemical Society Nobel Laureate Signature Award for Graduate Education in Chemistry. He recently helped launch the Carle Illinois College of Medicine by serving as the inaugural Associate Dean of Research and is the scientific founder of four biotechnology companies. He developed an automated lego-like platform for small molecule synthesis based on MIDA/TIDA boronate building blocks that has been used by many academic and industrial labs around the world to make a wide range of different natural products, pharmaceuticals, materials, and many other types of small molecules. He also developed a platform called SHIELD for mitigating SARS-CoV-2 transmission using a novel rapid-result COVID-19 saliva test, which has now been deployed >10 million times worldwide. He received his undergraduate education at Johns Hopkins University, a PhD at Harvard University, and an MD at Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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