OMAHA, Neb. (Feb. 13, 2015)—Jon Mirsalis, Ph.D., the Managing Director of the Bioscience Division and Executive Director of Translational Development at SRI International in Menlo Park, Calif., will present an hour-long seminar next week in the Durham Research Center auditorium.
His talk, “A New Paradigm for Engaging the War on Infectious Diseases,” is set to begin at noon on Tuesday, Feb. 17. Mirsalis is an internationally recognized expert at developing drugs for infectious diseases. He is expected to discuss efforts to overcome recent cutbacks in funding for research and development with a growing trend toward private-public partnerships. He will focus on the growing need for vaccines and therapeutics, and will present new models for discovering and developing them.
The author of more than 200 publications and abstracts, Dr. Mirsalis has been involved in developing more than 50 different therapeutics, and manages two major programs with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
The University of Nebraska Medical Center’s College of Pharmacy is hosting the event.
