Biography:
Brian Blagg is the Charles Huisking Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Director of the WarrenFamily Research Center for Drug Discovery and Development at the University of Notre Dame. After earning a B.A. in Chemistry and Environmental Studies at Sonoma State University, and his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from the University of Utah (Dale Poulter), he received an NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship and performed research at The Scripps Research Institute with Dale Boger. Blagg started his independent career in medicinal chemistry at The University of Kansas in 2002. In the Fall of 2017, he moved to The University of Notre Dame wherein his lab continues to focus on chaperone proteins and protein folding in relation to cancer and neurodegeneration.
Title : Turning problems into opportunities via small molecule design
Title : The design and development of isoform-selective inhibitors of Hsp90