Research Day Agenda 2026

Time Activity
8:30 - 9:45 a.m. Breakfast, registration, and early poster session 1
9:45 - 10 a.m. Remarks
Sarah L.J. Michel, PhD, dean of the School of Pharmacy
10 - 11:10 a.m. Ellis S. Grollman Lecture in the Pharmaceutical Sciences
Introductions, lecture, Q&A
Steven Kozlowski, MD, chief scientist, U.S. Food and Drug Administration will present "Regulatory Science and Medical Product Development"
11:10 - 11:30 a.m. Coffee
11:30 - noon OTT Talk
(Mark Wozniak and Jeff Purnell)
12:30 - 1:30 p.m. Lunch
Noon - 1:30 p.m. Lunch and poster session 2
1:30 - 2:30 p.m.

Oral session 1 - Session lead: Dr. Adarsh Subbaswamy

  • 1:30-1:45 p.m.
    Taraneh Mousavi (PI: Fadia Shaya)
    Title: Structural Healthcare Access and State-Level Opioid-Related Harms: An Ecological Analysis of Hospitalization, Emergency Department Visits, and Overdose Mortality

  • 1:45 - 2 p.m.
    Smritililekha Mondal (PI: Jim Polli)
    Title: Lower Strength Biowaiver of Oral Modified Release Drug Products: Scientific and Regulatory Considerations

  • 2-2:15 p.m.
    Jennifer Contreras (PI: Ester Villalonga)
    Title: A Modified Conceptual Framework for Measuring Shared Decision Making for Managing Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

  • 2:15-2:30 p.m.
    Yu-Hua Fu (PI: Danya Qato)
    Title: Assessment of Medication for Opioid Use Disorder Initiation Among Dual-Eligible Beneficiaries Using Linked Medicare and Medicaid Claims
2:30 - 2:45 p.m. Coffee
2:45 - 3:45 p.m.

Oral session 2 - Session lead: Dr. Wenbo Yu

  • 2:45-3 p.m.
    Sara Geriesh (PI: Hongbing Wang)
    Title: Mechanistic profiling of trovafloxacin-induced hepatotoxicity using hepatic micropatterned co-cultures

  • 3-3:15 p.m.
    Jihyeon Lee (PI: Alex MacKerell)
    Title: Integrating Enhanced Sampling Molecular Simulations and the  SILCS Technology to Accelerate RNA-Targeting Small Molecule Drug Design

  • 3:15-3:30 p.m.
    Vicent Lowe (PI: Daniel Derege)
    Title: Leveraging Hydrogen Deuterium Exchange Mass Spectrometry Data and Machine Learning to Refine Protein-Ligand Docking Pose Selection

  • 3:30-3:45 p.m.
    Kieran Johnson (PI: Angela Wilks and Fengtian Xue)
    Title: Inhibitors of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa Heme Sensing and signaling system
3:45 - 5:15 p.m. Poster session 3
5:15 p.m. Social