Cutting Edge Approaches to Drug Design 2012 |
School of Oriental and African Studies, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London, UK | ||
Thursday, 26th April, 2012 |
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Registration will open at 9am, and refreshments will be available.
Session 1, Chair: Steve Maginn, CCG | |||
10.00-10.10 | Steve Maginn | CCG | Opening remarks |
10.10-10.40 | Miles Congreve | Heptares | Structure and fragment based drug design for GPCRs using StaRs |
10.40-11.10 | Dave Sheppard | BioFocus | Shape-based profiling of compound libraries |
11.10-12.00 | Tom Blundell | University of Cambridge | Plenary Lecture: The structural interactome and drug discovery |
12.00-12.20 | MGMS AGM - All welcome | ||
12.20-13.20 | Lunch and exhibition | ||
Session 2, Chair: Shozeb Haider, Queen's University, Belfast | |||
13.20-14.10 | Gerhard Klebe | University of Marburg | Plenary Lecture: Title TBC |
14.10-14.40 | Ian Williams | University of Bath | Kinetic isotope effects, transition states and drug design |
14.40-15.10 | Refreshments | ||
Session 3, Chair: Chris Richardson, BioFocus | |||
15.10-15.40 | Gergely Toth | University of Cambridge | Targeting monomeric form of intrinsically disordered proteins by small molecules as a potential therapeutic approach for neurodegenerative diseases |
15.40-16.10 | Darren Green | GSK | How to combat lipophilicity in lead discovery & optimisation |
16.10-16.40 | Prof Jonathan Essex | University of Southampton | Water and fragment binding by free energy calculations |
16.40-16.50 | Chris Richardson | BioFocus | Closing Remarks |