Seminar Series

Spring 2025: Translational Research & Therapeutic Discovery

The Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series is held on Tuesdays at 12 PM in W331 (unless otherwise noted) and is open to all.  


January 21th, 2025 

Stephanie Langel, Ph.D., Pathology, Case Western Reserve University - "Designing Therapeutic Recombinant IgA Antibodies to Target the Mammary Gland and Mucosal Surfaces"

January 28th, 2025

Vera Bonilha, Ph.D., Opthalmalic Research, Cleveland Clinic Foundation - 鈥淯NDERSTANDING MECHANISMS OF AGE-RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION (AMD) PATHOLOGY AND AGING IN THE RETINA AND RPE鈥�

February 4th, 2025

Patrick Osei-Owusu, Ph.D., Physiology, Case Western Reserve University - "Investigating the Therapeutic Potential of Targeting G protein Signaling Regulation by RGS Proteins鈥�

February 11th, 2025

James Driscoll, Ph.D.,  Hematology & Oncology, University Hospitals - 鈥淓ngineering Molecular Glues to Regulate Proteasome鈥�

February 18th, 2025

Divita Mathur, Ph.D., Chemistry, Case Western Reserve University - "Targeting the Vascular System to Ameliorate Alzheimer鈥檚 Disease Pathologies"

February 25th, 2025

Erin Norris, Ph.D., Neurobiology and Genetics, Rockefeller University - 鈥淭argeting the Vascular System to Ameliorate Alzheimer鈥檚 Disease Pathologies鈥�

March 4th, 2025

Fabin Dang, Ph.D., Genetics, Case Western Reserve University - 鈥淭argeting ACE2 in Human Diseases: Pathways from Research to Therapy鈥�

March 11th, 2025 

Sarah Schumacher-Bass, Ph.D., Cardiovascular and Metabolic Sciences, Cleveland Clinic Foundation - 鈥淣ot just a victim: How the heart may talk back during Cardiometabolic Disease鈥�

March 18th, 2025

Jean-Sebastien Joyal, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Pediatrics, University of Montreal  - "Metabolism and glial-immune crosstalk remodel the retinal vasculature"

March 25th, 2025

Saptarshi Biswas, Ph.D., Opthalmalic Research, Cleveland Clinic Foundation - "鈥淣eurovascular Unit in
CNS Angiogenesis and Vascular Barrier鈥�"

April 8th, 2025

Shiwei Zhu, Ph.D., Physiology and Biophysics, Case Western Reserve University - "鈥淎dvancing Cryo-Electron Tomography: From Innate Immunity to Cutting-Edge Sample Preparation鈥�

April 15th, 2025

Brian Lewis, Ph.D., Molecular Cell and Cancer Biology, University of Massachusetts - 鈥淭叠顿鈥�

April 22nd, 2025

Lazlo Nagy, Ph.D., Medicine and Biological Chemistry, John Hopkins University - "TBD"

May 7th, 2025 (Frontiers in Biological Sciences Lecture)

Josh Rubinstein, Ph.D., Medical Biophysics, SickKids/University of Toronto - "TBD"