1. Larissa M. Podust Drug Discovery for Neglected Tropical Diseases Moved to the Skaggs School of Pharmacy from UCSF in December 2014 Center for Discovery and Innovation in Parasitic Diseases (CDIPD) directed by James McKerrow CDIPD Structural Biology and X-ray Crystallography Core

2. Core Expertise Protein Chemistry Enzymology Structural Biology X-ray Crystallography Structure-based Drug Discovery

3. Proposed Collaborations with SSPPS Faculty Continue as CDIPD Structural Biology/X-ray Crystallography Core (collaboration with the Research Faculties and Project Scientists: Jair Lage (Kinetoplastids) and Anjan Debnath (Amoebas) Collaboration with Tracy Handel on setting and maintaining Crystal Lab equipped with the shared state of the art instruments – Mosquito (LCP), Dragonfly and the UV Imager – for the service-based and collaborative research Implement computation into structure-based drug-discovery project on Chagas Disease in collaboration with Ruben Abagyan Three-way collaboration on phosphodiesterase 4 (PDE4)-related project is discussed with Susan Taylor and the new coming Faculty, Conor Caffey