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