09.15 Registration and Coffee

10.00 Welcome and Introduction

10.05               KEYNOTE LECTURE

                   Chaninging paradigms in drug discovery

                   Prof Hugo Kubinyi (Heidelberg University)

                       [Abstract] [PDF]

10.50 Coffee

11.20              Chemoinformatics tools for lead discovery

                       Prof Peter Willett (Sheffield University)

                       [Abstract] [PowerPoint]

11.50             Bringing kinases into focus

                       Dr Adrian Stevens (BioFocus Discovery)

                       [Abstract]

12.20             What cane we learn from active compounds and molecular properties to enhance the Hit-to-lead process?

                       Dr Alexander Alex (Pfizer Global R & D)

                      [Abstract]

12.50 Lunch

13.50              Structure-based drug design: Successes, limitations, and challenges

                       Dr Marina Tintelnot-Blomley (Novartis Pharma AG)

                       [Abstract]

14.20              Adding detail to models used in drug design

                       Dr Christopher Woods (Southampton University)

                       [Abstract] [PowerPoint]

14.50 Tea

15.15              The design of cysteine protease inhibitors

                       Dr Terry Hart (Peakdale Molecular)

                       [Abstract]

15.45              Circular Fingerprints: from molecular similarity to ADME

                       Prof Robert Glen (University of Cambridge)

                       [Abstract] [PowerPoint]

16.30              Close