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GLC-ASPET @glcaspet.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Thank you to all our sponsors and vendors for another great meeting!

GLC-ASPET @glcaspet.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

GLC President Dr. Marsha Pierce presented awards to the winners and runners up in our poster competition. Congratulations to winners Dr. Moaz Saeed, Harun Cingoz, Aleksandra Feschenko, Kaajal Rengaraj, and Kate Feist; and runners up Leah Rogers, Bhavia Sharma, Kameron Kaplan, and Frida Pantoja!

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GLC-ASPET @glcaspet.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

We were delighted to welcome 43 poster presentations from undergraduate, graduate, postdoctoral, faculty, and industry attendees. 2/2

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GLC-ASPET @glcaspet.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

We were delighted to welcome 43 poster presentations from undergraduate, graduate, postdoctoral, faculty, and industry attendees. 1/2

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GLC-ASPET @glcaspet.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Wrapping up our Young Investigator Symposium was Dr. Soumen Bera from UIC, who covered a very different aspect of GLP1 biology with his talk, "GLP1 receptor agonism alters growth and therapeutic response in prostate cancer."

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GLC-ASPET @glcaspet.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Next to speak in our afternoon session was Ashlie McCunn, MPH, whose talk was titled "Associations between GIP/GLP-1 RA Prescriptions and Substance Use Outcomes among Patients with OUD and AUD."

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GLC-ASPET @glcaspet.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Next to present was Dr. Maria Charina Benavidez of Rush University, whose talk was entitled "Effects of Neoadjuvant GLP-1 Receptor Agonists on Weight Loss After Bariatric Surgery."

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GLC-ASPET @glcaspet.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Our Young Investigator Symposium opened with a talk by Dr. Veronica Johnson of AbbVie, entitled "NuSH-Based Therapies in Obesity Management: Efficacy, Equity, and the Evolving Landscape of Access."

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GLC-ASPET @glcaspet.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Our afternoon session began with a Special Symposium presentation from Dr. Payal Rana from AbbVie, entitled "Licensing and Acquisition in the Obesity Drug Space: A Nonclinical Toxicology Perspective on Due Diligence for GLP-1 and Next-Generation Therapeutics."

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GLC-ASPET @glcaspet.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

We had 156 attendees from Chicagoland and across the Great Lakes region who came to hear from our excellent group of speakers.

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GLC-ASPET @glcaspet.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Concluding the morning session was our keynote speaker, Dr. Lorenzo Leggio from the NIH. Dr. Leggio's talk was titled "From Metabolism to Motivation: Repurposing GLP-1 Therapies for Addictions."

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GLC-ASPET @glcaspet.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Third to present was Dr. Sarah Stern, with her talk entitled "Rewiring Appetite: How the Brain, Hormones, and Modern Life Shape Our Eating Habits."

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GLC-ASPET @glcaspet.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Our main symposium continued with Dr. Jonathan Douros from the Indiana Biosciences Research Institute and his talk "Precision over potency: The role of B arrestins to regulate incretin pharmacology."

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GLC-ASPET @glcaspet.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

We had a great meeting on June 12th! Starting the morning was Dr. Tamer Coskun from Eli Lilly and his talk "Development of multifunctional incretins for diabetes and obesity."

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GLC-ASPET @glcaspet.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Thank you to everyone who attended GLC-ASPET’s inaugural webinar, entitled “Biological Mechanisms of Substance Use: from Neural Circuits to Chronic Diseases.” This event featured promising trainee scientists from throughout the Midwest. 1/5

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GLC-ASPET @glcaspet.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Join us for our 39th Annual Meeting on June 12th at Midwestern University in Downers Grove! We'll be talking all about GLP1 pharmacology. Registration is now open, and early bird rates run through May 15th.

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pgx-perera.bsky.social @pgx-perera.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Early bird registration is open! Amazing lineup of speakers! Poster prizes for trainees, expert to discuss career paths at Lunch and Learn. www.aspet.org/aspet/utilit...

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GLC-ASPET @glcaspet.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Tune in Tuesday for GLC ASPET's trainee webinar! Join at umich.zoom.us/j/9963553709...

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GLC-ASPET @glcaspet.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

As we all know, scientific funding has been especially challenging this year. Many early-career researchers are being especially impacted. This is why ASPET has created the Support Our Scientists (SOS) Fund to advocate for funds and support expanded travel grant access for ASPET meetings. 1/2

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GLC-ASPET @glcaspet.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

ASPET-GLC would like to thank all of our sponsors and vendors for their support of our annual meeting!

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GLC-ASPET @glcaspet.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Vendor fair at ASPET-GLC annual meeting.

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GLC-ASPET @glcaspet.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

ASPET-GLC would like to thank the following outgoing members of the Council for their service! · James O'Donnell MS PhD, President · Adriana Caballero PhD, Treasurer · Mohd Shahid PhD, Councilor

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GLC-ASPET @glcaspet.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Thank you to ASPET Executive Officer David Jackson, CAE, MBA for sharing the benefits of membership in ASPET with our attendees. If you would like to join our national organization, please go to the following link: www.aspet.org/aspet/member...

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GLC-ASPET @glcaspet.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Minal Mohammed of Lake Forest College won 2nd place in the undergraduate category of the poster competition. Minal is a summer research student at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science. 1/2

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GLC-ASPET @glcaspet.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Martin Ettlin Cuitiño of Lake Forest College won 1st place in the undergraduate category of the poster competition. His poster was entitled, "Glial-specific function of the Endoplasmic Reticulum Membrane Protein Complex (EMC): distinct roles of individual subunits." Congrats, Martin!

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GLC-ASPET @glcaspet.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Cydney Martell of Northwestern University won 3rd place in the graduate category of the poster competition. Her work was entitled, "Determinants of aggregation in small protein domains." Congrats, Cydney!

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GLC-ASPET @glcaspet.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Demetria Neal of UIC won 2nd place in the graduate category. Her work was entitled, "Dysregulation of MD thalamic-evoked prefrontal GluN2A and GABA-mediated local field potential responses following early life adversity exposure at a discrete developmental period." Congrats, Demetria!

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GLC-ASPET @glcaspet.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Giokdjen Ilktach of University of Illinois Chicago won 1st place in the graduate category of the poster competition. Her poster was entitled, "Involvement of calcium/calmodulin dependent protein kinase II beta in chronic pain." Congrats, Giokdjen!

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GLC-ASPET @glcaspet.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Inés Pulido PhD of University of Illinois-Chicago won 2nd place in the postdoctoral category of the poster competition at the ASPET-GLC meeting. Her poster was entitled, "Integrative analysis of acquired drug resistance to KRAS(G12D) inhibitors." Congrats, Dr. Pulido!

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GLC-ASPET @glcaspet.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Zekun Shen of University of Illinois Chicago won 1st place in the postdoctoral category of the poster competition at the ASPET-GLC meeting. His poster was entitled, "Engineered Notch agonist mitigates doxorubicin induced cardiotoxicity." Congrats, Dr. Shen!

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GLC-ASPET @glcaspet.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Poster Session at GLC ASPET. Fifty-two posters were presented at the session from a wide variety of subfields of pharmacology. 2/2

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GLC-ASPET @glcaspet.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Poster Session at GLC ASPET. Fifty-two posters were presented at the session from a wide variety of subfields of pharmacology. 1/2

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GLC-ASPET @glcaspet.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Angela Lynch MSPH PhD DABT (toxicologist; nonclinical drug discovery/development consultant, TOXPLUS), Namhee Kim PhD (biostatistician, Rosalind Franklin Univ. of Medicine and Science), and Marsha Pierce PhD (science policy and advocacy expert, neuropharmacologist; Midwestern Univ.) 3/3

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GLC-ASPET @glcaspet.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Career Development mentors included Anik Tuladhar PhD (industry postdoc fellow, AbbVie), Shana Augustin PhD (neuropharmacologist, Northwestern University), Andy Vo PhD (computational toxicologist, AbbVie), Natasha Ferguson PhD, MS, MAT (medical writer, Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc.) 2/3

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GLC-ASPET @glcaspet.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

The Lunch and Learn events at ASPET-GLC offer great opportunities for professional development! This year we had a Career Development Workshop for trainees and a Pharmacology Educator Event for those who teach pharmacology to discuss best practices. 1/3

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GLC-ASPET @glcaspet.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Audience members ask questions during the Q&A period of the symposia.

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GLC-ASPET @glcaspet.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Shilpa Sharma PhD presents in the Young Investigator Symposium. Her talk was entitled, “Mapping the Free Energy Landscape of AF9-BCOR: Unraveling Intrinsically Disordered Protein Interactions in Leukemia.” Dr. Sharma is a Post-doctoral Associate in the Saha Lab at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

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GLC-ASPET @glcaspet.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Sudarshan Babu PhD presents his talk in the Young Investigator Symposium, which was entitled “Novel Molecular Representations for AI-Driven Discovery.” Dr. Babu is an AI Fellow in the Khan Lab at the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Chicago.

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GLC-ASPET @glcaspet.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Wei Liang PhD, Senior Scientist at AbbVie, presents her talk in the Young Investigator Symposium at the GLC ASPET Annual Meeting. Her talk was entitled, “Vision-Based AI for Analyzing Primate Behavior.”

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GLC-ASPET @glcaspet.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

We also featured a Young Investigator Symposium. The goal of the symposium was to give a platform to promising early-career scientists from the Midwest to share their research on applications of AI and other computational approaches to drug discovery and pharmacology.

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GLC-ASPET @glcaspet.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Dr. Gabriel Rocklin presents his talk in the Main Symposium, entitled “Large-scale discovery, analysis, and design of protein energy landscapes”. Dr. Rocklin is an Assistant Professor at Northwestern University.

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GLC-ASPET @glcaspet.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Dr. John Karanicolas presents his talk in the Main Symposium, entitled “Emerging strategies for AI/ML-driven drug design”. Dr. Karanicolas is Head of Computational Drug Discovery at AbbVie.

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GLC-ASPET @glcaspet.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Dr. Sanjiv Shah presents "Leveraging Machine Learning to Address the Challenges of Drug Development for Heterogeneous Clinical Syndromes". Dr. Shah is Director of the Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine - Center for Deep Phenotyping and Precision Therapeutics.

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GLC-ASPET @glcaspet.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Dr. Nicholas Tatonetti, Vice Chair of Operations in the Department of Computational Biomedicine and Assoc. Director of Computational Oncology in the Cancer Center at Cedars Sinai presents the keynote talk, “From Signals to Solutions: AI for Safer Medicines in Underserved Groups”

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GLC-ASPET @glcaspet.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Main Symposium at GLC ASPET. Keynote speaker Nicholas Tatonetti PhD of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (@tatonetti.bsky.social) led off the symposium. Other speakers in the Main Symposium included Sanjiv Shah MD, Stone Endowed Professor and ... 1/2

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GLC-ASPET @glcaspet.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Thanks for joining us for GLC ASPET 2025! We'll be reviewing the meeting here. To start us off, President James O'Donnell MS PhD gives the Welcome Address at the 38th Annual Meeting of GLC ASPET at Northwestern University in Chicago. 1/2

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GLC-ASPET @glcaspet.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

There is still time to register for the GLC ASPET Meeting! Abstracts must be in by this Friday, June 6 for inclusion in the program and consideration for the poster competition. Submit today!

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GLC-ASPET @glcaspet.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Discounted early bird registration ends this Friday, May 16! Sign up to attend and submit your abstract today!

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