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Professor Robert 'Bob' Hutchins Retirement Symposium & Dinner

Saturday
August 16, 2008

On January 2, 2008, Professor Robert O. Hutchins retired after 40 years of excellence in teaching and mentoring at Drexel University. In celebration of his accomplishments, a Symposium and Dinner will be held on Saturday, August 16, 2008 in the Bossone Research Enterprise Center at Drexel University, 32nd & Market Streets (click here for directions)
Symposium Speakers and Lecture Titles
9:50 AM - 10:0 AM Introductory Remarks
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM "Forty Years: a Tribute to Robert O. Hutchins" Madeleine Joullie, Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM "Everything You Wanted to Know About Starting a Chemical Company But Were Afraid to Ask" Ira Taffer, Vice-President, Biomol International
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM "Isoxazoles in Medicinal Chemistry" Nicholas Natale, Professor, Department of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Montana
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM "Cobalt Mediated [2+2+2] Cycloadditions: Macrocycles from Terminal Bis-Alkynes" Bruce E. Maryanoff, Distinguished Research Fellow, Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research and Development
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM "Recent Patent Law Developments of Interest to the Chemical and Pharmaceutical Inventor" Yuriy Stercho, Sr. Patent Counsel, Johnson & Johnson Corporate Law
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM "Asymmetric Synthesis of Alpha- and Beta-Amino Acids. Closing the Gap Between Chemistry, Biology and Medicine" Eusebio Juaristi, Professor of Chemistry, Center of Research and Advanced Study of the National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM "Synthesis of Peramivir, A Novel Neuraminidase Inhibitor" Ahmed Abdel-Magid, Sr. Research Fellow Emeritus, Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research and Development
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM "Adventures in Sulfur-Nitrogen Chemistry" Frank Davis, Professor, Department of Chemistry, Temple University
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Drexel Chemistry Student Vignettes

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