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  • CINP 2008 - 50th Anniversary
    July 13-17, 2008
    Internationales Congress Center Munchen
    Munich, Germany

    Presenter: 
    Geoffrey C. Dunbar, M.D., Vice President, Clinical Development and Regulatory Affairs, Targacept
    Poster:  Effect of Nicotinic Antagonism on Irritability in Depressed Patients Who Were Partial or Non Responders to Citalopram First Line Therapy: A Mecamylamine Double Blind Placebo Controlled Study
    Wednesday, July 16, 5- 7 p.m.

  • 2008 BIO International Convention
    June 17-20, 2008
    San Diego Convention Center
    San Diego, CA

    Panelist:  Jeffrey Brennan, Vice-President, Business and Commercial Development, Targacept
    Presentation:  New Biotech-Pharma Partnership Models That Retain Greater Value
    Tuesday, June 17, 4:00 - 5:30 p.m.

    Panelist:  Don deBethizy, Ph.D., President & CEO, Targacept
    Presentation:  The Early Bird Gets the Worm:  Extracting Value out of Your Early-Stage Pipeline
    Wednesday, June 18, 10:15 - 11:45 a.m.
     
  • Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors 2008
    April 23 - 28, 2008
    Wellcome Trust Conference Center
    Wellcome Trust Genome Campus
    Hinxton
    Cambridgeshire

    Presenters: 
    Merourane Bencherif, MD, Ph.D., Vice President, Preclinical Research and Pat Lippiello, Ph.D., Senior Director, Project Planning and Scientific Communication, Targacept
    Poster:  Differential Effects of TC-5214 [S-(+)-mecamylamine] and TC-5213
    [R-(-)-mecamylamine] at Low and High Sensitivity Human a4b2 Nicotinic Receptors and in Animal Models of Depression and Anxiety

    Presenter:  Kristen Jordan, Ph.D., Group Leader, Behavioral Neuroscience
    Poster:  TC-6499: An Orally Effective and Selective alpha4beta2 Neuronal Nicotinic Receptor Agonist with Anti-allodynic Activity

  • April 6 - 10, 2008
    Morial Convention Center
    New Orleans, Louisiana

    Presenter:  David C. Kombo, Ph.D., Sr. Computational Scientist
    Poster:  Predicting Ligand Binding Affinity to the Rat alpha4beta2 Neuronal Nicotinic Receptor: Lessons from Bayesian Categorization Modeling

  • American College of Neuropsychopharmacology - 46th Annual Meeting
    December 9-13, 2007
    Boca Raton Resort and Conference Center
    Boca
    Raton, FL, USA

    Presenter: 
    Geoffrey C. Dunbar, M.D., Vice President, Clinical Development and Regulatory Affairs, Targacept

    Monday, December 10, 2007, 5:30-7:30 p.m.
    Poster:  Mecamylamine in the treatment for depressed patients who were poor responders to citalopram first line therapy; a double-blind placebo controlled study.


  • Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting
    November 3-7, 2007
    San Diego Convention Center
    San Diego, CA, USA

    Saturday, November 3, 2007 at 2 p.m., #39.2, Board F33
    Presenter:  Nikolai Fedorov, Ph.D., Sr. Staff Scientist, Electrophysiology
    Poster:  Differential Effects of TC-5214 [S-(+)-mecamylamine] and TC-5213
    [R-(-)-mecamylamine] at Low and High Sensitivity Human a4b2 Nicotinic Receptors and in Animal Models of Depression and Anxiety

    Saturday, November 3, 2007 at 3 pm, #39.7, Board F38
    Presenter:  Kristen Jordan, Ph.D., Group Leader, Behavioral Neuroscience
    Poster:  TC-6499: An Orally Effective and Selective alpha4beta2 Neuronal Nicotinic Receptor Agonist with Anti-allodynic Activity

    Saturday, November 3, 2007 at 3 p.m., Annual Brain Awareness Campaign Event, Room 17 AB
    Presenter:  Debra Perret, Communications Coordinator
    Poster:  Got Brains?  We Do! Bringing the Brain to Audiences in NC’s Triad Region

  • Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors as Therapeutic Targets: Emerging Frontiers in Basic Research & Clinical Science
    Satellite to the 2007 Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience
    October 31 - November 2, 2007
    San Diego Convention Center
    San Diego, CA, USA

    Presenter: 
    Geoffrey C. Dunbar, M.D., Vice President, Clinical Development and Regulatory Affairs, Targacept

    November 1, 10:25 AM – Session 2: Alzheimer’s Disease
    Presentation:  Targeting a4ß2 nAChRs to Treat Cognitive Impairments in the Elderly: Clinical Trials with TC-1734 (AZD-3480) in AAMI and MCI

    Presenter:  Ramana Kuchibhatla, Ph.D., President & CEO, Ventureast Pharmaceutical Services

    November 2, 10:00 AM – Session 7: ADHD, Depression and Epilepsy
    Presentation:  Clinical Studies with Mecamylamine in MDD Patients Non-Responsive to First-Line SSRI Treatment

  • Women's Cognitive Health: Continuing the Dialogue
    Cutting Edge Translational Research

    October 24-26, 2007
    Graylyn International Conference Center of Wake Forest University
    Winston-Salem, NC

    Presenter: 
    Geoffrey C. Dunbar, M.D., Vice President, Clinical Development and Regulatory Affairs, Targacept

    Wendesday, October 25, 3:00 p.m.
    Presentation:  Mecamylamine Augmentation Treatment in Major Depressive Disorder

  • European College of Neuropsychopharmacology
    October 13 - 17, 2007
    Austria Center Vienna
    Vienna, Austria

    Presenter:   Patrick Lippiello, Senior Director, Project Planning and Scientific Communication, Targacept

    Tuesday, October 15,  12 noon -  2:00 PM
    Poster:  Novel neuronal nicotinic receptor selective compounds for the treatment of acute, chronic and neuropathic pain.

    Presenter:  Merouane Bencherif, M.D., Ph.D., Vice President, Preclinical Research, Targacept

    Tuesday, October 16,  12 noon -  2:00 PM
    Poster:  TC-4214 ((S)-(+) Mecamylamine) demonstrates antidepressant and anxiolytic effects in multiple animal models.

  • British Association for Psychopharmacology Summer Meeting 2007
    July 22 - 25, 2007
    Harrogate International Centre
    Harrogate, United Kingdom

    Presenter: 
    Geoffrey C. Dunbar, M.D., Vice President, Clinical Development and Regulatory Affairs, Targacept

    Tuesday, July 24, 2:00 PM - Group A: Affective Disorders
    Poster:  Mecamylamine in the treatment for depressed patients who were non responders to citalopram first line therapy: A double-blind placebo controlled study.

  • NCDEU 47th Annual Meeting
    June 11 - 14, 2007
    Mizner Center
    Boca Raton, FL

    Presenter: 
    Geoffrey C. Dunbar, M.D., Vice President, Clinical Development and Regulatory Affairs, Targacept

    Tuesday, June 12, 12:00 - 2:00 – Poster Session I
    Poster:  Activation of Neuronal Nicotinic Receptors (NNRs) in Healthy Volunteers Causes EEG Changes Which Precede Improvement in Attention and Episodic Memory

  • Association for Computing Machinery
    The 45th ACM Southeast Conference

    March 23 - 24, 2007
    M. C. Benton Jr. Convention and Civic Center
    Winston-Salem, North Carolina

    Presenters:  David Vestal & Terrie Thoma, Noregon; Jeffrey Schmitt & Rebecca Harris, Targacept

    Saturday, March 24, 1:45 - 3:50 p.m.
    Presentation:  High-Performance, Low-Cost Grid Computing Through Community Cooperation

  • 8th International Conference: Alzheimer’s Disease and Parkinson’s Disease
    March 14-18, 2007
    Salzburg Congress Centre
    Salzburg, Austria

    Presenter: 
    Geoffrey C. Dunbar, M.D.,  Vice President, Clinical Development and Regulatory Affairs,

    3/15/2007 -- 10:00 a.m.
    Presentation:   AZD3480 (TC-1734): Early Development in Volunteers and Elderly Subjects Indicating a Beneficial Effect on Cognition
 

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