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RECENT TRENDS IN MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY AND ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES
Thursday 5 December 2024
Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BQ, UK

Joint meeting with Biological and Medicinal Chemistry Sector of the Royal Society of Chemistry  

This meeting is supported by:

                           

PROGRAMME

09.00 - 09.55 Arrival, registration and coffee
09.55 - 10.00 Welcome and introduction
 
Session 1
Chair:
Nadia Ahmad
10.00 - 10.40 1-1 Optimisation of Potent, Efficacious, Selective and Blood-Brain Barrier Penetrating Inhibitors Targeting EGFR Exon20 Insertion Mutations
Bill McCoull, AstraZeneca
10.40 - 11.20 1-2 Targeted Delivery of Oligonucleotide Therapeutics using Bicycle® Peptide Technology
Megan St Denis, Bicycle Therapeutics
11.20 - 12.00 1-3 Covalent fragment technologies for therapeutic target discovery and validation
Jake Bush, GSK
12.00 - 13.00 Lunch break and exhibitors
 
Session 2
Chair: Giorgia Kidd
13.00 - 13.40 2-1 Discovery of potent, selective classes of LIMK inhibitors for the treatment of FXS and AML
Alex Baldwin, Cardiff University, Medicines Discovery Institute
13.40 - 14.20 2-2 Reimagining the Drug Discovery Process in the AI Age
James Dale, Pharmenable Therapeutics
14.20 - 14.50 Coffee break and exhibitors
 
Session 3
Chair: Daniel O Donovan
14.50 - 14.55 Introducing the SMR Early Career Researchers subcommittee
14.55 - 15.30 3-1 Using Direct-to-Biology in a spectral shift-PoLiPa platform to enable fast fragment follow-up for A2a antagonists
Joe Mason, Domainex
15.30 - 16.10 3-2 Discovery of ASTX295: A bone-marrow sparing MDM2 Antagonist. From concept to clinic
Steve Howard, Astex Pharmaceuticals
16.10 - 16.50 3-3 Confounding factors in targeted degradation of short lived proteins
Giorgia Kidd, University of Dundee, Centre for Targeted Protein Degradation
16.50 - 17.00 Closing comments and meeting close
   

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