[QSAR] A Symposium Honoring Yvonne C. Martin 3/25/07 in Chicago

[List for Members of QSAR and Modeling Society]

All,

In case you are at the ACS in Chicago this week, please stop by to listen to, and honor, Yvonne C. Martin. She is retiring after an extraordinary career (40 years at Abbott Labs), and we are pleased to have the chance to recognize her tremendous influence in the areas of computer-aided ligand design, cheminformatics, QSAR, and drug discovery. 

She has shaped the areas of QSAR (after spending time with Corwin Hansch), structure-based design (she did influence Tack Kuntz and Peter Kollman), pharmacophore search (her Alladin lamp influenced John VanDrie and Dave Weininger) and cheminformatics (think similarity search post-HTS). Of course, these are her unseen influences - for those of you who are curious, you can also reed about her work in books and publications.

She served as Chair of the QSAR Society, 2000-2005.

Please stop by, if you are at the ACS. There will be a reception afterwads.

http://oasys2.confex.com/acs/233nm/techprogram/S22855.HTM
http://oasys2.confex.com/acs/233nm/techprogram/S22896.HTM

Tudor I. Oprea
Chair, Cheminformatics and QSAR Society, www.qsar.org
and
Alex Tropsha
Vice-Chair, Cheminformatics and QSAR Society, www.qsar.org
co-organizer of the Symposium