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Drug Discovery USA Congress

 
  May 22, 2014  
     
 
Oxford Global, Boston, USA
21-22 October 2014


R&D Models For The Future
Open innovation: new initiatives and industry case studies
Reviving existing drug products: increasing therapeutic potential
Expanding therapeutic areas: pain, anti-addiction, orphan diseases
Tools for measuring the success of research partnerships
Practical innovation: what can we learn from biotechs?
Accessing external innovation: how, where and who

Screening & Assays: Enabling Technologies
Phenotypic screening vs target-based screening
High content analysis: live cell imaging, 3D cell based assays, flow cytometry
Developing disease relevant assays
New technologies for gene expression profiling
iPSC and primary cells: physiologically relevant assays
Technology platform case studies: NMR & SPR

Discovery Chemistry & Drug Design
Fragment based and structure based drug discovery
Analysing structure-activity relationships
Advances in computational chemistry & knowledge-based design
De-risking through design: achieving selectivity and specificity
Increasing molecular complexity: considering solubility, drugability and potency
Medicinal chemistry case studies

Supporting Innovation: Translational Approaches & Informatics Tools

Making the most of discovery data: compound optimisation and safety assessment
Utilising predictive technologies
New data analysis and integration platforms
Legacy data and collaborative strategies: tackling informatics challenges
DMPK and ADMET: building an integrated pipeline

 
 
Organized by: Oxford Global Conferences
Invited Speakers:
  • Sarah Blendermann
    Senior Director, Chemistry & Pharmacology, Business Technology, Pfizer
  • Kevin Burgess
    Rachal Professor of Chemistry, Texas A&M University
  • Michael Clark
    Associate Director of Chemistry, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc
  • Chris De Savi
    Associate Director, Medicinal Chemistry Cancer Research, AstraZeneca
  • Mohanraj Dhanabal
    Senior Principal Investigator, Discovery Technologies, Molecular Pharmacology, EMD Serono
  • Michael Finley
    Associate Director, Small Molecule Screening, Merck
  • Nahor Haddish-Berhane
    Senior Principal Scientist, Pfizer
  • Christopher Hale
    Scientist, Discovery Technologies, Amgen
  • David Hayes
    Director of Enzymology, Discovery Sciences, AstraZeneca
  • Jörg Holenz
    Director, Discovery and Preclinical Sciences, Neuroscience Innovative Medicines, AstraZeneca Neurosciences
  • Wei-Sheng Huang
    Director of Discovery Chemistry, ARIAD Pharmaceuticals
  • Mark Hurle
    Senior Scientific Investigator, Computational Biology, GSK
  • Jetze J. Tepe
    Associate Professor, Chemistry Department, Michigan State University
  • Lyn Jones
    Head Rare Diseases Chemistry, Head Chemical Biology, Pfizer
  • Roland Kolbeck
    Senior Director, RIA Research, Medimmune
  • Lisa Mendoza
    Associate Director, Global External Innovation & Alliances, Bayer HealthCare
  • Debra Peattie
    Life Science Director & Entrepreneur-in-Residence, GSK
  • Tom Plasterer
    Principal Informatics Scientist-Knowledge Engineering & Information Science, AstraZeneca
  • Brian A. Pollok
    Entrepreneur-In-Residence, University of Virginia
  • Deepak Rajpal
    Director, Computational Biology, GSK
  • Thomas Schroeter
    Senior Principal Scientist, Compound Safety Prediction-In Vitro Models Group, Pfizer
  • Paul Scola
    Group Leader, BMS
  • David Sedlock
    Senior Director, R&D Systems, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, The TAKEDA Oncology Company
  • Morten Sogaard
    Executive Director and Head Biotechnology and Precision Medicine External R&D Innovation, Pfizer
  • Suvit Thaisrivongs
    Vice President, Pfizer
  • Patrick Trojer
    Senior Director, Constellation Pharmaceuticals
  • Chris Waller
    Director Cheminformatics, Merck
  • Craig Wegner
    Executive Director, Translational Science, Emerging Innovations Unit, Scientific Partnering & Alliances, AstraZeneca
  • Wendy Young
    Director, Medicinal Chemistry, Genentech
 
Deadline for Abstracts: N/A
 
Registration: To register your interest and to find out more information on available discounts, please contact Danielle Dalby on d.dalby@oxfordglobal.co.uk or call +44 (0)1865 248455.
E-mail: d.dalby@oxfordglobal.co.uk
 
   
 
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