May 6-7, 2003
Deutsche Bank Securities Health Care Conference
Baltimore Marriott Waterfront / Baltimore, MD USA

April 3, 2003
BioCentury Future Leaders Conference
Millennium Broadway Hotel / New York, NY USA

January 6-9, 2003
H&Q Healthcare Conference
Westin St. Francis Hotel / San Francisco, CA USA

November 11-13, 2002
BIO-Europe 2002
Liederhalle Maritim Hotel / Stuttgart, Germany

October 13-15, 2002
BioPartnering Europe
Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre / London, England

June 9-12, 2002
BIO 2002 Convention
Metro Toronto Convention Centre / Toronto, Ontario, Canada

May 7-9, 2002
Deutsche Banc Alex. Brown Health Care Conference
Baltimore Marriott Waterfront / Baltimore, MD USA

January 29-31, 2002
U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray Health Care Conference
The Pierre / New York, NY USA

January 7-10, 2002
JPMorgan H&Q Healthcare Conference
Westin St. Francis Hotel / San Francisco, CA USA

November 12-14, 2001
Bio-Europe 2001 International Partnering Conference
Hilton Park Hotel / Munich, Germany

October 8-11, 2001
UBS Warburg Global Life Sciences Conference
The Pierre Hotel / New York, NY USA

June 25-27, 2001
BIO 2001 Convention
Convention Center / San Diego, CA USA

May 22 - 23, 2001
14th Annual UBS Warburg Global Specialty Pharmaceuticals Conference
The Pierre Hotel / New York, NY USA

May 8-10, 2001
Alex.Brown Healthcare Conference
The Marriott Waterfront Hotel / Baltimore, MD USA

March 21, 2001
Venture One Summit - Best of Breed in Venture Capital
The Palace Hotel / San Francisco, CA USA

February 9, 2001
BioSquare 2001 Conference
Lyon Convention Center / Lyon, France

January 23, 2001
Burrill Life Sciences Conference
The Ritz Carlton / San Francisco, CA USA

Research

Selected Posters and Presentations (2000 - Present)

Adenosine Kinase Inhibitors: Synthesis and Biological Activity of 5-Aryl-7-(5-Deoxy-B-D-ribofuranosyl)pyrrolo[2,3-d]pyrimidines Substituted at C4 with Glycinamides and Related Compounds
B.C. Bookser, M. Allan, M.C. Matelich, R.H. Lemus, S.H. Boyer, D.M. Remick, B.G. Ugarkar, J.B. Wiesner, M.D. Erion, M. Tsuchiya, M. Nakane, A. Nagahisa
Gordon Research Conference on Heterocycles, July 2001

Use of Computer Aided Drug Design Approaches for Designing Potent Inhibitors for FBPase and HIV-1 Protease
M.R. Reddy
UCSD Extension for Pharmaceutical Industry Scientists, July 2001

Structure-Based Design of Potent Fructose 1,6-Bisphosphatase Inhibitors: A Free Energy Perturbation Approach
M.R. Reddy
Rational Drug Design Symposium, June 2001

Adenosine Kinase Inhibitors 1: A New Class of Potential Analgesic Agents
B.G. Ugarkar, R.H. Lemus, J.E. Gomez-Galeno, M.C. Matelich, S.H. Boyer, J.B. Wiesner, S. Booten, M.D. Erion, M. Tsuchiya, M. Nakane, A. Nagahisa
221st American Chemical Society National Meeting, April 2001, Carb 32

Adenosine Kinase Inhibitors 2: Synthesis and Biological Activity of 5-Aryl-7-(5-Deoxy-B-D-ribofuranosyl)pyrrolo[2,3-d]pyrimidines Substituted at C4 with Glycinamides and Related Compounds
B.C. Bookser, M. Allan, M.C. Matelich, R.H. Lemus, S.H. Boyer, D.M. Remick, B.G. Ugarkar, J.B. Wiesner, M.D. Erion, M. Tsuchiya, M. Nakane, A. Nagahisa
221st American Chemical Society National Meeting, April 2001, Carb 37

Adenosine Kinase Inhibitors 3: Synthesis, Enzyme Inhibition, Antiseizure and Antiinflammatory Activities of 4'-C-Substituted Tubercidin Analogs
S.H. Boyer, J. Solbach, B.G. Ugarkar, M.D. Erion
221st American Chemical Society National Meeting, April 2001, Carb 33

Adenosine Kinase Inhibitors 4: Synthesis, Enzyme Inhibition, Antiseizure, Analgesic, and Antiinflammatory Activities of ß-D-Erythro-Tubercidin Analogs
S.H. Boyer, J. Solbach, M.C. Matelich, K. Ollis, J.E. Gomez-Galeno, R.V. Mendonca, D. Segale, J. Kopcho, B.G. Ugarkar, M.D. Erion, M. Tsuchiya, M. Nakane, A. Nagahisa
221st American Chemical Society National Meeting, April 2001, Carb 34

Adenosine Kinase Inhibitors 5: Synthesis, Enzyme Inhibition, and Analgesic Properties of Water Soluble Pyrrolo[2,3-d]pyrimidine Nucleosides
J.E. Gómez-Galeno, B.G. Ugarkar, S.H. Boyer, M.C. Matelich, R.H. Lemus, B.C. Bookser, H. Gao, R.V. Mendonca, M. Ramirez-Weinhouse, J. Solbach, K. Ollis, W.G. Schulz, M. Allan, L.P. Miller, S. Booten, M.D. Erion
221st American Chemical Society National Meeting, April 2001, Carb 38

Adenosine Kinase Inhibitors 6: Synthesis, Inhibition of Adenosine Kinase, and Analgesic Activity of Novel Pyrrolo[2,3-d]pyrimidine Nucleosides
J.E. Gómez-Galeno, B.G. Ugarkar, H. Gao, R.V. Mendonca, W.A. Craigo, J.B. Wiesner, S. Booten, M.D. Erion
221st American Chemical Society National Meeting, April 2001, Carb 39

Adenosine Kinase Inhibitors 7: Synthesis and Biological Activity of Novel 5-Carbonylpyrrolo[2,3-d]pyrimidine Nucleosides
R.H. Lemus, J.E. Gomez-Galeno, W.G. Schulz, B.G. Ugarkar, J.J. Kopcho, M.D. Erion
221st American Chemical Society National Meeting, April 2001, Carb 35

Adenosine Kinase Inhibitors 8: Synthesis and Biological Activity of Novel Tubercidin Analogs
R.H. Lemus, W.G. Schulz, A. Agarwal, B.G. Ugarkar, M.D. Erion
221st American Chemical Society National Meeting, April 2001, Carb 36

Solid-liquid Extraction Purification of Carboylic Acid Products from 96-well-format Solution- Phase Synthesis
B.C. Bookser, S. Zhu
221st American Chemical Society National Meeting, April 2001, Orgn 658

Adenosine Kinase Inhibitors: Synthesis, Enzyme Inhibition and Analgesic Activity of Tubercidin Analogs
B.G. Ugarkar, S.H. Boyer, M.C. Matelich, J.E. Gomez-Galeno, R.H. Lemus, J. Wiesner, J. Schanzer, M.D. Erion, M. Tsuchiya, M. Nakane, and A. Nagahisa
XIV International Roundtable on Nucleosides and Nucleotides, September 2000

Therapeutic Potential of Adenosine Kinase Inhibitors as Analgesic Agents
M.D. Erion
Purines 2000 Meeting: Symposium of Nucleosides and Nucleotides, July 2000

Computer-Assisted Scanning of Ligand Interactions: Analysis of the FBPase-AMP Complex Using Free Energy Calculations
M.D. Erion, P.D. van Poelje, and M.R. Reddy
Gordon Research Conference on Computational Chemistry, June 2000

Calculation of Relative Binding Free Energies: Use for Characterizing the AMP Binding Site of Fructose 1,6-Bisphosphatase
M.D. Erion, J. Schanzer, P.D. van Poelje, and M.R. Reddy
219th American Chemical Society National Meeting, March 2000, Comp 29

Development of Hetero Diels-Alder Reactions for Efficient Synthesis of Fused Pyrimidines and their Nucleosides
Q. Dang, Y. Liu, J. Gomez-Galeno, Z. Sun, and M.D. Erion
219th American Chemical Society National Meeting, March 2000, Orgn 207