News

June 11-14th 2013: Dr. Arnold will present at the 16th Workshop on Vitamin D, San Francisco, CA, titled: Discovery and Development of of non-secosteroid vitamin D receptor antagonists.

June 2-7th 2013: Dr. Arnold will present at the Gordon Research Conference "High Throughput Chemistry & Chemical Biology, June 2-7, Colby-Sawyer College New London NH, titled: Identification and development of three new distinct classes of VDR non-secosteroidal modulators for metabolic diseases and cancer.

May 30th 2013: Dr. Arnold will present at Medical College of Wisconsin at the MASBIG meeting at 4:00 pm, room C2195 titled: Identification and Development of Three Different Classes of Vitamin D Receptor-Coactivator Binding Inhibitors.

May 29th 2013: Our manuscript titled: PPAR δ agonist GW0742 interacts weakly with multiple nuclear receptors including the vitamin D receptor was accepted for publication by Biochemistry.

May 22th 2013: Joshua Preston (Undergraduate Student) received the Summer 2013 SURF award.

May 19th 2013: Megan McCallum (Ph.D.) and Nicholas Nassif (B.S.) graduated from UWM.

May 17th 2013: Robin Goy (Undergraduate Student) received the Summer 2013 SURF award.

May 17th 2013: Jon Bogart (Undergraduate Student) received the Summer 2013 SURF award.

April 20th 2013: Megan McCallum received the Graduate School Research Award (Poster Award).

April 20th 2013: Nina Yuan received the Keith Hall Award for Excellence in Graduate Research (Poster Award).

April 20th 2013: Kelly Teske received the Moszynski Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award.

April 20th 2013: Megan McCallum received the Sosnovsky Award for Excellence in Graduate Research.

April 19th 2013: Nina Yuan presented at the Chemistry&Biochemistry Recruitment Day: Uppers, Downers, All Arounders: Identifying New Treatments for the Human Brain.

April 18th 2013: Megan McCallum passed her final defense. Her thesis is titled: High throughput approaches for the assessment for factors influencing bioavailability of small molecules in preclinical drug development.

April 12th 2013: R01MH096463 grant"Design fo New Therapeutic Agents to Tread Schizophrenia" got awarded by the National Institute of Mental Health to Dr. James Cook as Priniple Investigator and Dr. Alexander (Leggy) Arnold as Co-Investigator.

April 12th 2013: Nicholas Nassif will present at the NCUR 2013 in La Crosse, at 3:30 pm, poster session 8, titled: Expression and purification of the vitamin D receptor ligand binding domain for the identification of vitamin D receptor-coactivator inhibitors.

April 10th 2013: Dr. Preetpal Sidhu will present at the ACS meeting in New Orleans at 8:30 am, session: MEDI: Division of Medicinal Chemistry, titled:Chemical improvement of pharmacological properties of irreversible VDR-coactivator inhibitors and their evaluation in vivo using an ovarian cancer animal model.

April 10th 2013: Kelly Teske will present at the ACS meeting in New Orleans at 7:00 pm, session: MEDI: Division of Medicinal Chemistry, titled: Identification of the first non-secesteroid antagonist for the vitamin D receptor.

April 8th 2013: Kelly Teske will present at the ACS meeting in New Orleans at 8:00 pm, session: MEDI: Division of Medicinal Chemistry, titled: Identification of the first non-secesteroid antagonist for the vitamin D receptor.

April 7th 2013: Megan McCallum will present at the ACS meeting in New Orleans at 1:05 pm, session: Advances in Biopharmaceutical and Pharmaceutical Analysis, titled: A new fluoresent-based high throuphput method for the quantification of drug-protein binding interactions.

April 7th 2013: Megan McCallum will present at the ACS meeting in New Orleans at 1:45 pm, session: Advances in Biopharmaceutical and Pharmaceutical Analysis, titled: A high throuput approach for the identification of promiscuous inhibitors among screening libraries with the use of a nucleophilic fluorescent probe. Megan will also be the co-moderator for this session.

March 10th 2013: Dr. Arnold will present at the 2nd Congress of Steroid Research in Chicago at 10:15 am and 15:45 pm, poster session A, titled: Development of the first non-secosteroid antagonist to modulate vitamin D receptor function.

March 8th 2013: Kelly Teske presented her Advanced Qualifying Examination titled: Development of of novel vitamin D receptor modulators. Location Chemistry 110, 11:00 am.

February 8th 2013: Both, Megan McCallum and Kelly Teske, received the Graduate Student Travel Support awarded by the UWM Graduate School.

February 4th 2013: Nicholas Nassif (undergraduate student) received the Spring 2013 SURF award.

January 25th 2013: Dr. Moray Campbell from the Roswell Park Cancer Institute will give a talk titled "Expression and Regulation of micro-RNA in prostate cancer", room CHEM180 at 3:00 pm.

January 16th 2013: Nicholas Nassif's (undergraduate student) abstract submission was accepted at the NCUR conference 2013 in La Crosse, WI

January 14th 2013: Dr Premchendar Nandhikonda is presenting at the slas 2nd annual conference in Orlando (FL): Identification of Promiscuous Inhibitors in Screening Libraries with the use of an Intrinsically Fluorescent Probe: A High Throughput Screening Approach.

January 6th 2013: Publication in Journal of Biomolecular Screening accepted: High throughput identification of promiscuous inhibitors from screening libraries with the use of a thiol-containing fluorescent probe.

December 7th 2012: Megan McCallum will present her preliminary thesis review titled: High throughput approaches for the assessment of factions influencing bioavalability of small molecules in pre-clinial drug development. Location Chemistry 110, 1:30 pm.

November 6th 2012: Postdoctoral Researcher Interview: Varun Dewan (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry), Ohio State University Columbus - "Dissecting Host-Viral Interactions in HIV-1 for Therapeutic Development" Location: Chem123, 2:30 pm.

November 1st 2012: Collaboration with CoNCERT Pharmaceuticals Inc. to further characterize CTP-354; a non-sedating subtype selective GABA(A) modulator.

September 21st 2012: Nina Yuan will present her seminar titled: Tunable, light-controlled interacting protein tags (TULIPs): a LOV story. Location: Chemistry 180, 3:00 pm.

August 27th 2012: 1R01NS076517-01A1 grant"Synthesis of Alpha2/Alpha3 GABA Agonists to Treat Neuropathic Pain" got awarded by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke to Dr. James Cook as Priniple Investigator and Dr. Alexander (Leggy) Arnold as Co-Investigator.

August 17th 2012: Second Best Poster: Robin Goy presented the second best poster during the Summer Undergraduate Research Poster Session, UWM.

July 31st 2012: Catalyst Grant: Our group got awarded with the Catalyst Grant by the UWM Research Foundation "In vivo evaluation of selective inhibitors of the vitamin D receptor-coregulator interaction" funded by the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation and the Richard and Ethel Herzfeld Foundation.

July 18th 2012: New Postdoctoral Researcher Hire: Dr. PreetPal Singh Sidu accepted the position of a postdoctoral researcher in our group. Welcome Preetpal!

June 24th 2012: Postdoctoral Researcher Interview: PreetPal Singh Sidu (Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Institute for Structural Biology and Drug Discovery Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA) - Designing Allosteric Inhibitors of Thombin, Wednesday June 27th, 2012, 2:00pm.

May 7th 2012: Publication in Journal of Medicinal Chemistry accepted: "Discovery of the First Irreversible Small Molecule Inhibitors of the Interaction between the Vitamin D Receptor and Coactivators".

March 7th 2012: Research Growth Initiative grant "Vitamin D Receptor-Coregulator Interactions as Anticancer Targets" got awarded by the UWM Graduate School to Dr. Alexander (Leggy) Arnold.