[Drug Discovery Seminar] How protein degradation led to faculty entrepreneurship at Yale: A personal Perspective

Venue

Air&Fire, SciLifeLab Stockholm
Tomtebodavägen 23A
Solna, Sweden
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[Drug Discovery Seminar] How protein degradation led to faculty entrepreneurship at Yale: A personal Perspective

November 10 @ 14:00 15:00 CET

SciLifeLab Drug Discovery Seminars, hosted by the DDD platform, is a series of educational lectures about recent developments, technologies, and trends in drug discovery and development that aims to enlighten, and spark a discussion, within the Swedish drug discovery community.

Craig Crews

John C. Malone Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and Professor of Chemistry, of Pharmacology, and of Management; Executive Dirictor, Yale Center for Molecular Discovery, Yale University

Abstract

Prof. Crews is the 2021 recipient of the Scheele prize from the Swedish Pharmaceutical Society for his seminal work on protein degradation. In this talk Prof. Crews will discuss his efforts to translate research from his lab into new biopharma ventures.  To date, these entrepreneurial  efforts have resulted in a FDA approved drug (Kyprolis) and a new therapeutic modality (PROTACs).  While each of his four companies has been launched based on different science, they have all followed a similar business model and Prof. Crews will discuss efforts at Yale to ’systematize’ faculty entrepreneurism via a core ‘biotech accelerator’ facility.

Biography

Crews is the John C. Malone Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology and holds joint appointments in the departments of Chemistry and Pharmacology at Yale University. He graduated from the U.Virginia with a B.A. in Chemistry and received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in Biochemistry. Dr. Crews has a foothold in both the academic and biotech arenas; on the faculty at Yale since 1995, his laboratory has pioneered the use of small molecules to control intracellular protein levels.

In 2003, he co-founded Proteolix, Inc., whose proteasome inhibitor, Kyprolis™ received FDA approval for the treatment of multiple myeloma. Since Proteolix’s purchase by Onyx Pharmaceuticals in 2009, Dr. Crews has focused on a new drug development technology, which served as the founding intellectual property for his latest New Haven-based biotech venture, Arvinas, Inc.

Currently, Dr. Crews serves on several editorial boards and was Editor of Cell Chemical Biology (2008-2018). In addition, he has received numerous awards and honors, including the 2013 CURE Entrepreneur of the Year Award, 2014 Ehrlich Award for Medicinal Chemistry, 2015 Yale Cancer Center Translational Research Prize, a NIH R35 Outstanding Investigator Award (2015), the AACR Award for Chemistry in Cancer Research (2017), Khorana Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry (2018), Pierre Fabre Award for Therapeutic Innovation (2018), the Pharmacia-ASPET Award for Experimental Therapeutics (2019), the Heinrich Wieland Prize (2020) and the Scheele Prize (2021). In 2019, he was named an American Cancer Society Professor.

Tomtebodavägen 23A
Solna, Sweden
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Last updated: 2021-10-20

Content Responsible: David Gotthold(david.gotthold@scilifelab.se)