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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

George K. Chandy, Ph.D., Professor, Physiology & BioPhysics, School of Medicine, University of California - Irvine

Michael Dabrowski, Ph.D., Head of Global Ion Channel Initiative, AstraZeneca

Laszlo Kiss, Ph.D., Senior Research Fellow, Merck Research Laboratories

SPECIAL EVENT FEATURE:
Ion Channels as Therapeutic Targets: An Industry Minireview
Peter Haddock, Ph.D., Group Leader, Ion Channel Group & CNS Biology, Pfizer

DISTINGUISHED FACULTY
Anindya Bhattacharya, Ph.D., Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research and Development LLC

Neil A. Castle, Ph.D., Icagen Inc.

George K. Chandy, M.D., Ph.D., University of California - Irvine

Mark (Mao Xiang) Chen, Ph.D., GlaxoSmithKline Research and Development

Chuan-Chu Chou, Ph.D., Schering Plough Research Institute

Michael Dabrowski, Ph.D., AstraZeneca

Gary Desir, M.D., Yale University School of Medicine

Jesus ‘Tito’ Gonzalez, Ph.D., Vertex Pharmaceuticals

Akihiko Kato, Ph.D., Eli Lilly and Company

Laszlo Kiss, Ph.D., Merck Research Laboratories

Roland Kozlowski, Ph.D., Lectus

Michael Mayer, Ph.D., University of Michigan

Dinah Misner, Ph.D., Roche Palo Alto

Birgit T. Priest, Ph.D., Merck Research Laboratories

Ken Stauderman, Ph.D., CalciMedica

Nuria Tamayo, Ph.D., Amgen

PRE-CONFERENCE SHORT COURSES:

MONDAY, OCTOBER 20

Understanding the Structural Biology of Ion Channels to Guide Drug Discovery
Heike Wulff, Ph.D., University of California - Davis
Boris S. Zhorov, Ph.D., D.Sc., McMaster University

Ion Channel Assays for Safety Screening
Gary Gintant, Ph.D., Abbott Laboratories
Laszlo Urban, M.D., Ph.D., Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research
Harry Witchel, Ph.D., Brighton and Sussex Medical School