Structural Genomics Approach to Disease Vector Control

Presented by: Yuan-Ping Pang

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Bio:  Dr. Pang received his B.S. degree in physical chemistry at Amoy University in China, his M.S. degree training in neuroscience and biochemistry at the Shanghai Institute of Physiology in China (with Li-Jun Chen), and his Ph.D. degree in synthetic chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh (with Alan P. Kozikowski). He then embarked on a one-year sabbatical study in computational chemistry at the University of California, San Francisco (with the late Peter A. Kollman). Since 1991, he has been working on the development and application of special-purpose computer hardware and software as well as new methods for just-in-time drug discovery and protein folding at the Mayo Clinic, and he is currently a professor of biophysics and pharmacology and the director of the Computer-Aided Molecular Design Laboratory of the Mayo Clinic. He has published 126 peer-reviewed original articles with an H-index of 32 and holds 14 active patents and 8 pending patents. His research is supported primarily by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the U.S. Army Medical Research Material Command (USAMRMC), the Army Research Office (ARO), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the High Performance Computing Modernization Office (HPCMO), the State of Minnesota, and the Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research.