ACS Award Winner Kenneth Merz to Speak at CHI & Bio-IT World’s SBDD Event

Dr. Merz will present in the free energy calculation and molecular dynamics simulation session.
 
April 5, 2012 - PRLog -- Cambridge Healthtech Institute (CHI) & Bio-IT World today announces that Kenneth Merz, Jr., Ph.D., Professor of Chemistry, Quantum Theory Project, University of Florida Gainesville, has accepted CHI’s invitation to speak at its twelfth annual Structure-Based Drug Design conference to be held on June 6-8, 2012 at the Royal Sonesta Hotel Boston in Cambridge, MA.  

Dr. Merz’s presentation entitled “Making Docking/scoring calculations more accurate via error analysis” is scheduled Thursday, June 7 at 9:10-9:40 a.m. Docking calculations are a mainstay of structure-based drug design and this talk addresses the central question regarding how potential function errors affect the (un)successful outcome of a docking effort. We analyze and estimate the magnitude of potential function error and demonstrate how to use this knowledge to improve the outcome of a docking exercise.

Dr. Merz is a recognized leader in the field of computational chemistry, publishing over 150 articles in peer-reviewed journals and giving more than 150 presentations worldwide. He has received a number of honors including the 2010 ACS Award for Computers in Chemical and Pharmaceutical Research, election as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship and he has held visiting professorships. He received his BS from Washington College and his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from The University of Texas.

For more details on this conference, visit http://www.healthtech.com/sbd

To inquire about sponsoring and/or exhibiting, contact Jon Stroup, 781-972-5483, jstroup@healthtech.com.

Writers and editors are encouraged to attend. To request a press pass, contact Tracey Fielding at tfielding@healthtech.com.

About Cambridge Healthtech Institute (www.chicorporate.com)

CHI is the preeminent life science network for leading researchers and business experts from top pharmaceutical, biotech and academic organizations. CHI’s portfolio of products includes Cambridge Healthtech Institute Conferences, Insight Pharma Reports, Cambridge Marketing Consultants, Barnett Educational Services, Cambridge Meeting Planners and CHI’s Media Group, which includes news websites and e-newsletters including Bio-IT World and eCliniqua. Founded in 1992, CHI strives to develop quality information sources that provide valuable new insights and competing points of view while offering balanced coverage of the latest developments.

Contact:

James Prudhomme
Cambridge Healthtech Institute
781-972-5400
jprudhomme@healthtech.com
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