February 2020 Newsletter

International Scholar Spotlight: Dr. Vijay Ivaturi

UMB, JHU Collaborate to Advance Drug Discovery

The University of Maryland School of Pharmacy welcomed nearly 200 researchers from across the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) and Johns Hopkins University (JHU) to the second UMB-JHU Joint Symposium on Drug Discovery on Dec. 3. Organized by Paul Shapiro, PhD, professor and chair of the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences (PSC) at the School of Pharmacy, and Barbara Slusher, MAS, PhD, professor of neurology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and director of Johns Hopkins Drug Discovery, the symposium provided an open forum for scientific exchange and interactive communication among students, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty from two of Baltimore’s preeminent academic institutions.

“When we hosted the first UMB-JHU Joint Symposium on Drug Discovery in 2017, we knew the potential existed for us to expand collaborative research among investigators at our institutions,” Shapiro says. “However, we could not have predicted just how tremendous the impact would be in bringing together researchers to collaborate on a variety of new projects aimed at advancing the field of drug discovery. The past two years have witnessed an exponential increase in research collaborations between our universities, and we hope that this year’s event will not only build on those existing relationships, but also explore other areas in which untapped potential for collaboration might still exist.”

 Read more here: https://www.umaryland.edu/news/archived-news/january-2020/newspressreleaseshottopics/umb-jhui-collaborate-to-advance-drug-discovery.php

 


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