Fourth Annual Seaborg Symposium
The Role of Inorganic Chemistry in Medicine
Honoring Prof. M. Frederick Hawthorne
Northwest Auditorium, Sunset Village , UCLA
November 8, 1997

(Click on the thumbnail pictures below to see the full-size picture.)

Prof. Joan Valentine
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCLA
"Copper and ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease)"

Prof. David Sigman
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry/Dept of Biological Chemistry, UCLA
"Copper-Dependent Chemical Nucleases"

Dr. Alan R. Fritzberg
Cheif Scientist and Chairman
Scientific Advisory Board, NeoRx Corporation
"Technetium-99m and Rhenium-186/-188 Amide Thiolate Chelates: From Scintigraphic Evaluation Of Kidney Function to Targeted Biomolecules for Imaging And Therapy In Cancer."

Prof. Kenneth N. Raymond
Department of Chemistry University of California, Berkeley
"Medical Applications of Lanthanide and Actinide Complexing Agents"

Prof. Sabeeha Merchant
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCLA
"A Novel Pathway for c-Type Cytochrome Maturation"

Lunch

Prof. Claude F. Meares
Department of Chemistry, UC Davis
"Reagents for the Delivery of Therapeutic Metal Ions to Cancer Sites"

Prof. David H. Dolphin
Department of Chemistry
University of British Columbia
"Photodynamic Therapy": Treatment of Disease in the 21st.Century"

Prof. M. Frederick Hawthorne
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCLA
"The Design and Synthesis of Boron Delivery Agents for Boron Neutron Capture Therapy"


Sponsored by Vacuum Atmospheres, Inc.