2019 Drug Design and Delivery Symposium
We are planning a diverse set of broadcasts for this year’s symposium and will highlight new fields of research exploring new ways to look issues that medicinal chemists are facing. The details for upcoming broadcasts will be posted as they are finalized.
Jan 31 |
How to Succeed in Drug Discovery: Insight from Medicinal Chemists (1.5 hrs.) John Lowe III - JL3 Pharm Mark Murcko - Relay Therapeutics Ann Weber - Kallyope William Greenlee - MedChem Discovery Consulting |
Feb 28 |
Cosolvent Molecular Dynamics: Mapping Protein Surfaces to Discover Allosteric Sites Heather Carlson - University of Michigan Rommie Amaro - UC San Diego |
Mar 28 |
Women at the Interface of Computational Chemistry and Drug Discovery (1.5 hrs) Zoe Cournia - Biomedical Research Foundation and JCIM Kate Holloway - Gfree Bio Yvonne C. Martin - Previously of Abbott Laboratories Shana Posy - Bristol-Myers Squibb |
Apr 18 |
Effective Exploration of Chemical Space in Hit-Finding Hanneke Jansen - Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research Zoe Cournia - Biomedical Research Foundation and JCIM |
May 30 |
Widening the Therapeutic Window: Kinetic Selectivity and Target Vulnerability Peter Tonge - Stony Brook University and ACS Infectious Diseases Stewart Fisher - C4 Therapeutics |
Jun 27 |
Precision Control of CRISPR-Cas9 Amit Choudhary - Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT Venkat Krishnamurthy - AstraZeneca |
Aug 8 |
Transformation of Recombinant Cells to FDA Approved Products: Clinical Development to Marketplace (New Date) Rodney Ho - University of Washington Venkat Krishnamurthy - AstraZeneca |
Aug 22 |
The Evolving Outsourcing Landscape in Pharma R&D: Pros and Cons of Different Models Bart DeCorte - MercachemSyncom Allen Reitz - Fox Chase Chemical Diversity Center |
Sep 19 |
Thinking Outside the Pillbox: Lead Generation and Optimization in Crop Protection Research Fides Benfatti - Syngenta Tejas Shah - Corteva Agriscience |
Oct 24 |
Treating Diabetes: Designing the Once-Weekly and Oral GLP-1 Semaglutide Jesper Lau - Novo Nordisk A/S Puneet Tyagi - AstraZeneca |
Nov 26 |
Prodrug Strategies in Medicinal Chemistry Jarkko Rautio - University of Eastern Finland Victor Guarino - Bristol-Myers Squibb |

Meet the Organizers
Annette Bak
AstraZeneca
AAPS
Nicholas Meanwell
Bristol-Myers Squibb
ACS MEDI
John Morrison
Bristol-Myers Squibb
AAPS
Janice Silverman
American Chemical Society