田纳西大学Wei Li教授

做客第234期化苑讲坛

报告题目：Discovery of novel tubulin inhibitors targeting the colchicine binding site for cancer therapy

报 告 人 ：Wei Li教授

报告时间：2017年1月6日（周五）下午15：30

报告地点：化学楼二楼一号会议室

报告人简介：

Prof. Li received his PhD degree in Chemistry in 1999 from Columbia University in the City of New York. He is a Professor in his current institution and also serves as the Section Editor for anticancer agents of Current Medicinal Chemistry. His area of research is small molecule drug discovery. He has published over 120 papers, is an inventor of five issued US patents and additional large numbers of patents from other countries, and is a frequent grant reviewer for the US NIH, NSF, and other US Government and State Agencies.

报告内容：

Despite the advancements of targeted therapy and immunotherapy, tubulin inhibitors are still the most widely prescribed chemotherapeutic drugs for many types of cancers.  However, efficacies of FDA approved tubulin inhibitors are often limited by multidrug resistance mechanisms such as overexpression of ABC-transporters. They also have poor aqueous solubility and are not orally bioavailable. Dr. Li’s Lab discovered a new generation of tubulin inhibitors that effectively overcome some of these clinical limitations. They are licensed to Veru HealthCare who will start clinical trials in 2017. In this talk, he will describe the efforts in the discovery and development of these new tubulin inhibitors.