{"id":1752,"date":"2017-11-08T08:29:12","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T13:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering\/?p=1752"},"modified":"2017-11-08T08:29:12","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T13:29:12","slug":"cicats-core-interest-group-hosts-science-cafe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/2017\/11\/08\/cicats-core-interest-group-hosts-science-cafe\/","title":{"rendered":"CICATS Core Interest Group Hosts Science Caf\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Cato T. Laurencin, M.D., Ph.D.<\/p>\n<p>The UConn Partnership for Excellence in Structural Biology held \u201cStructural Biology Meets Drug Discovery&#8221; on September 11 at the Nathan Hale Inn on the UConn Storrs campus. The keynote speaker was Dr. Jonathan Moore, senior research fellow and vice president of Vertex Pharmaceuticals in Boston. Dr. Moore\u2019s insightful remarks on the intersection of structural biology and drug discovery also touched on targeting disordered proteins as a new mode of action. Dr. Dennis Wright of UConn Pharmacy briefed attendees on the PITCH and NPDD academic drug-discovery initiatives at UConn. The Science Caf\u00e9 attracted a broad cross section of interested faculty and administrators who engaged in a lively discussion of challenges and opportunities.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1753\" src=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2017\/12\/image001-1.jpg\" alt=\"CICATS Core Interest Group Hosts Science Cafe\" width=\"587\" height=\"440\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1754\" src=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2017\/12\/image003-1.jpg\" alt=\"CICATS Core Interest Group Hosts Science Cafe\" width=\"587\" height=\"440\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1755\" src=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2017\/12\/image005.jpg\" alt=\"CICATS Core Interest Group Hosts Science Cafe\" width=\"587\" height=\"440\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Cato T. Laurencin, M.D., Ph.D. The UConn Partnership for Excellence in Structural Biology held \u201cStructural Biology Meets Drug Discovery&#8221; on September 11 at the Nathan Hale Inn on the UConn Storrs campus. The keynote speaker was Dr. Jonathan Moore, senior research fellow and vice president of Vertex Pharmaceuticals in Boston. Dr. Moore\u2019s insightful remarks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1244,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-27 08:59:52","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1752"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1244"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}