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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211110T170000
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URL:https://researchweek.unc.edu/events/hosb-readdi-for-the-next-pandemic/
SUMMARY:Health of Our State and Beyond Series: READDI for the Next Pandemic
DESCRIPTION:Employing expertise from UNC’s School of Medicine\, the Gilli
 ngs School of Global Public Health\, and the Eshelman School of Pharmacy\,
  the Rapidly Emerging Antiviral Drug Development Initiative (READDI)\, an 
 open-science\, nonprofit drug research and development organization\, is c
 reating “self-stable” antiviral therapeutics for each of the main viru
 s families. The therapeutics will be poised for rapid development against 
 new pandemic viruses as they emerge. \n\nREADDI is the evolution of an int
 erdisciplinary research known as the Infectious Disease Discovery Program 
 at UNC (ID3@UNC)\, which was awarded funding through the Creativity Hubs i
 nitiative in 2019. Having a team already in place allowed the group to res
 pond nimbly and quickly to the coronavirus outbreak and identify more part
 ners to help in the fight against it.\n\nClick here for BrightTalk link\n\
 nMaster of Ceremonies:\n\nMatt Tremblay\nLead\, Drug Discovery\, Scripps R
 esearch Translational Institute\nChief Operating Officer\, Scripps Researc
 h\n\nMatt Tremblay is the chief operating officer of Scripps Research\, as
  well as the chief operating officer for its drug discovery division\, Cal
 ibr. He is responsible for developing and implementing corporate strategy 
 for Scripps Research and Calibr\, as well as the management of day-to-day 
 operations. Tremblay works closely with the chief executive officer to cre
 ate the long-term strategic vision for the institute and advance new busin
 ess development opportunities. Administrative functions reporting to the c
 hief operating officer span business development\, program management and 
 clinical operations\, legal and research services\, information technology
 \, and facilities\, and encompass over 300 employees.\n\nPresenter:\n\nNat
  Moorman\nPrincipal Investigator\, ID3@UNC\nCo-founder\, READDI\nAssociate
  Professor\, Department of Microbiology and Immunology\, UNC School of Med
 icine \n\nNathaniel Moorman is an associate professor in the Department of
  Microbiology and Immunology in the UNC School of Medicine. He is also a f
 ounder of the Rapidly Emerging Antiviral Drug Development Initiative (READ
 DI)\, a global non-profit public private partnership\, whose mission is to
  make broad spectrum antiviral drugs effective against virus families that
  cause epidemics and pandemics. His research focuses on understanding the 
 molecular mechanisms viruses use to replicate and using this information t
 o discover and develop new antiviral drugs.\n\nPanelists: \n\nKenneth Pear
 ce\nResearch Professor\, Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry\, Eshelm
 an School of Pharmacy\n\nKenneth Pearce is a research professor within the
  Center for Integrative Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery in the UNC Esh
 elman School of Pharmacy. Pearce’s primary expertise and interests are f
 undamentals of protein methods\, biochemical and cell assay development\, 
 medium- and high-throughput screening\, hit validation and mode-of-action\
 , biophysical methods for characterizing protein-protein and small molecul
 e-protein interactions\, and structure-activity relationships for early dr
 ug discovery.  He joined the Center for Integrative Chemical Biology and D
 rug Discovery as director of lead discovery and characterization in mid-20
 15 after spending over 18 years at GlaxoSmithKline and legacy companies in
  the Molecular Discovery Research organization. \n\nNatalia Summerville\nS
 enior Manager\, Operations Research Center of Excellence\, SAS\n\nNatalia 
 Summerville leads the Operations Research Practice at SAS Institute and ha
 s 10+ years of experience leading design\, development and implementation 
 of operations research and machine learning applications for a variety of 
 industries including retail\, health care\, transportation\, manufacturing
 \, and media advertising\, among others. She has been also teaching underg
 rad and masters-level classes in industrial engineering\, operations resea
 rch\, and data analytics since 2005. She is deeply passionate about Data4G
 ood movement and has been collaborating with many non-profit and mission-d
 riven organizations to implement data analytics for social good and is an 
 active volunteer with Data4Good.
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