Past Keynote Speakers

The Chapter's annual meetings have consistently drawn a wide representation of the midwestern pharmacology community. The following is a list of the past keynote speakers.

• June 22, 2018 │Joan Heller Brown │University of California-San Diego │Initiation of Cardiac Inflammation and Fibrosis Through CaMKII Signaling in Cardiomyocytes
• June 23, 2017 │Stephen Miller │Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine │From bench to bedside: Translation of a novel nanoparticle approach for tolerogenic therapy of autoimmune and allergic diseases
• July 7, 2016 │Alfred George │Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine │ Therapeutic Targeting of Ion Channels in Genetic Epilepsy
  
• June 26, 2015 | John Christman | The Ohio State University, Wexner Medical Center | Epigenetic Regulation of Macrophage Gene Expression in ARDS Associated with Severe Sepsis
  
• June 13, 2014 | Duncan Stewart | Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, University of Ottawa | Stem cells: Current and Future Use in Pharmacology
  
• June 14, 2013 | Chunxiang (Kevin) Zhang | Rush University | MicroRNAs in Cardiovascular Disease: Current Progress and Challenges
  
• June 22, 2012 | Jeffrey Conn | Vanderbilt University | Multiple Modes of Efficacy and Stimulus Bias of Allosteric Modulators of GPCRs
  
• June 10, 2011 | Robert Messing | Gallo Research Center, UCSF | PKC Regulation of Cys-loop Receptors in Alcohol and Nicotine Addiction
  
• June 18, 2010 | Douglas R. Green | St. Jude Children's Hospital | How the Cells Die
  
• June 19, 2009 | Carol A. Colton | Duke University Medical Center | Reassessing Chronic Neuroinflammation in Alzheimer's Disease
  
• June 13, 2008 | Neal Benowitz | University of California San Francisco | Pharmacogenetics of Nicotine Addiction and Treatment
  
• June 8, 2009 | Marina E. Wolf | Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science | Learning to be Addicted: Role of Glutamate Receptor Trafficking
  
• June 9, 2006 | Michael B. Sporn, M.D. | Dartmouth Medical Center | New Synthetic Ttriterpenoids and Rexinoids: Multifunctional Agents with Many Potential Clinical Applications, Both for Prevention and Treatment of Disease
  
• June 17, 2005 | Rene Hen, Ph.D. | Center for Neurobiology and Behavior, Columbia University | The Requirement of Hippocampal Neurogenesis for the Behavioral and Physiologic Effects of Antidepressants
  
• June 3, 2004 | David Holtzman, M.D., Ph.D. | Department of Neurology, Washington University, St. Louis | Potential Role of Amyloid-Beta Binding Molecules in the Pathogenesis, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease
  
• May 8, 2003 | Dr. Hal E. Broxmeyer | The Walther Oncology Center, Indiana University School of Medicine | The Biology and Therapeutics of Hematopoietic Stem Cells from Cord Blood and Mobilized Peripheral Blood
  
• June 10, 2002 | Dr. Neil Granger | LSU Health Science Center, Shreveport | Adhesion of Blood Cells to Microvascular Endothelium: Mechanisms and Targets for Therapeutic Intervention
  
• May 31, 2001 | Dr. Stephen Morse | Centers for Disease Control | Bioterrorism: Are We Prepared?
  
• June 1, 2000 | Dr. Malcolm Cohen | NASA-Ames Research Center | Astrobiology and Space Travel: The Big Picture, and, Dr. Janice Voss | NASA-Johnson Space Center | Another Perspective of Research in Space
  
• June 8, 1999 | Dr. Eugene Sun | Abbott Laboratories | ABT-378 and the Continuing Therapeutic Challenges of HIV
  
• June 10, 1998 | Dr. Michael Williams | Abbott Laboratories | The Analgesic Frog: Serendipity in the Drug Discovery Process
  
• June 3, 1997 | Dr. Philip Needleman | Searle Research and Development | The Road to a Better, No, a Much Better Aspirin
  
• May 3, 1996 | Dr. Palmer Taylor | UC San Diego, School of Medicine | A Tale of Divergence in Specificity and Gene Expression at Two Cholinergic Sites
  
• June 16, 1995 | Dr. Louis Ignarro | UCLA, Medical Center | The Physiologic Significance of the Nitric Oxide-Cyclic GMP Signal Transduction Pathway in Mammalian Cells
  
• June 10, 1994 | Dr. Irwin Fridovich | Duke University Medical Center | What is the Matter with Oxygen?
  
• May 7, 1993 | Dr. Ray Fuller | Lilly Research Laboratories | Pharmacology Careers in the Pharmaceutical Industry
  
• May 15, 1992 | Dr. Keith Killam | UC Davis, School of Medicine | Through a Looking Glass—Pharmacologically
  
• May 9, 1991 | Dr. A. M. Goldberg | Johns Hopkins University | Animal Use and Alternative
  
• April 20, 1990 | Dr. Eric Shooter | Stanford University | Nerve Growth Factor—From Molecule to Memory
  
• April 4, 1989 | Dr. Philip Needleman | Monsanto Corporation, Research and Development | Biochemical Pharmacology of Atriopeptin and Related Peptides
  
• May 12, 1988 | Dr. Julius Axelrod | NIMH | Receptor-Mediated Activation of Phospholipase A2 via GTP Binding Proteins
  

Previous Annual Meeting Reports

• 31st Annual Scientific Meeting—June 22, 2018
  Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine in Maywood, IL
  
• 30th Annual Scientific Meeting—June 23, 2017
  University of Illinois in Chicago, Chicago, IL
  
• 29th Annual Scientific Meeting—July 7, 2016
  Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
  
• 28th Annual Scientific Meeting—June 26, 2015
  Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
  Pictures from the 28th Annual Meeting | Meeting in Review
  
• 27th Annual Scientific Meeting—June 13, 2014
  The Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, Chicago, IL
  Abstracts | Meeting in Review in The Pharmacologist
  
• 26th Annual Scientific Meeting—June 14, 2013
  Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL
  Meeting in Review in The Pharmacologist
• 25th Annual Scientific Meeting—June 22, 2012
  Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL
  Meeting in Review in The Pharmacologist
  
• 24th Annual Scientific Meeting—June 10, 2011
  The University of Chicago, Gleacher Center, Chicago, IL
  Abstracts
  
• 23rd Annual Scientific Meeting—June 18, 2010
  The University of Chicago, Gleacher Center, Chicago, IL
  
• 22nd Annual Scientific Meeting—June 19, 2009
  The University of Chicago, Gleacher Center, Chicago, IL 
  
• 21st Annual Scientific Meeting—June 13, 2008
  Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL 
  
• 20th Annual Scientific Meeting—June 8, 2007
  Chicago Medical School, Rosalind Franklin University, North Chicago, IL
  
• 19th Annual Scientific Meeting—June 9, 2006
  University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL
  
• 17th Annual Scientific Meeting—Thursday, June 3, 2004
  Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, IL
  
• 16th Annual Scientific Meeting—Thursday, May 8, 2003
  Feinberg School of Medicine/Northwestern University, Chicago, IL