Vienna, Austria, August 31 – September 4, 2008
The EFMC-ISMC 2008 Symposium is organized by the Austrian Chemical
Society on behalf of the European Federation for Medicinal Chemistry
(EFMC).
This symposium is recognized worldwide as one of the leading
Medicinal Chemistry meetings, as proven by its large international
attendance, which varies between 1200 and 1500 participants from all
over Europe, but also from the United States and Asia.
The Symposium will focus on important new scientific and technological developments in the drug discovery process; particularly those relevant to medicinal chemistry.
To discover a drug first the candidate has to be identified. It also involves characterization, synthesis, assays and screening for the therapeutic efficacy. Once the compound shows its own value when the test are performed, the process of drug development starts. This is done before any clinical trials. There have been some drugs that have been discovered accidently in the past. A very amazing supplement that has been discovered is LumiSkinwhich is an anti-ageing supplement.
The meeting will create an environment for in-depth, informed discussions highlighting the importance of medicinal chemistry in the pharmaceutical industry, academia and drug research. It will also provide opportunities to re-emphasise the crucial position of medicinal chemistry in the drug discovery process and its pivotal role in linking and exploiting the associated biological sciences. Therefore, ISMC-2008 intends to create a forum for all scientists interested in medicinal chemistry and related fields.
Programme
Plenary Lectures
Dr. Magid ABOU-GHARBIA
(WYETH RESEARCH, Princeton, United States)
Prof. Chris DOBSON
(UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, Cambridge, United Kingdom)
Prof. Paul HERRLING
(NOVARTIS INTERNATIONAL, Basel, Switzerland)
Prof. Barbara IMPERIALI
(MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Cambridge, United States)
Prof. Steven V. LEY
(UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, Cambridge, United Kingdom)
GlaxoSmithKline Award forOutstanding Achievement in the Field of Chemical Biology
EFFMC Award Lectures
The Nauta Award for Pharmacochemistry
The UCB-Ehrlich Award for Excellence in Medicinal Chemistry
The Prous Institute-Overton and Meyer Award for Technologies in Drug Discovery
1. Novel Lead Finding Approaches 2. Chemistry Strategies to Reduce Attrition in Drug Discovery 3. Emerging Drugs
Session Chair
Dr. Hans-Ulrich STILZ
(SANOFI-AVENTIS, Frankfurt/Main, Germany)
Title to be determined
Dr. Jeff BLANEY
(STRUCTURAL GENOMIX, San Diego, United States)
Title to be determined
Prof. Roderick E. HUBBARD
(UNIVERSITY OF YORK, York, United Kingdom)
Oral communication
to be selected from submitted abstracts
Session Chair
Dr. Geoffrey STEMP
(GLAXOSMITHKLINE, Harlow, United Kingdom)
From Fragment to Clinic
Dr. David REES
(ASTEX THERAPEUTICS, Cambridge, United Kingdom)
Chemical Strategies for Successful Clinical Development
Dr. Christopher N. JOHNSON
(GLAXOSMITHKLINE, Harlow, United Kingdom)
Oral communication
to be selected from submitted abstracts
Session Chair
Dr. Bernd RIEDL
(BAYER HEALTHCARE, Wuppertal, Germany)
The Discovery and Development of Rivaroxaban
Dr. Susanne ROEHRIG
(BAYER HEALTHCARE, Wuppertal, Germany)
The Discovery and Development of a Selective PI3K-Alpha Inhibitor
Dr. Carlos GARCIA-ECHEVERRIA
(NOVARTIS PHARMA, Basel, Switzerland)
Discovery of TMC278: a Next Generation NNRTI Drug, Highly Active against Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type-1
Dr. Jérôme GUILLEMONT
(JOHNSON & JOHNSON PRD, Val de Reuil, France)
4. Kinase Selectivity-Is it Necessary? (ACS) 5. Predictive ADME/Tox
Methods: What to Apply When? 6. Macromolecular and Polymeric Drugs
Session Chair
Prof. David ROTELLA
(WYETH RESEARCH, Princeton, United States)
Title to be determined
Dr. Dennis POWELL
(WYETH RESEARCH, Pearl River, United States)
Title to be determined
Dr. Louis LOMBARDO
(BRISTOL-MYERS SQUIBB, , United States)
Title to be determined
Dr. Andrew THOMAS
(ASTRAZENECA R&D, Macclesfield, United Kingdom)
Session Chair
Dr. Scott BOYER
(ASTRAZENECA, Mölndal, Sweden)
Predictive ADME: Examples from the Real World
Dr. Andrew Mark DAVIS
(ASTRAZENECA R&D, Loughborough, United Kingdom)
Virtual Methods for Predicting Off-Target Pharmacology
Dr. Jordi MESTRES
(IMIM AND UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA, Barcelona, Spain)
Oral communication
to be selected from submitted abstracts
Session Chair
Prof. Abraham J. DOMB
(HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM, Jerusalem, Israel)
Keynote
to be selected
Title to be determined
Dr. Ronit SATCHI-FAIRANO
(TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY, Tel Aviv, Israel)
Oral communication
to be selected from submitted abstracts
7. Fragment-Based Drug Discovery (ACS) 8. Imaging Ligands and
Biomarkers (EUFEPS) 9. Natural Products as Starting Points in Drug
Discovery
Session Chair
Dr. Jeffrey ALBERT
(ASTRAZENECA, Wilmington, United States)
Building the Perfect Beast: Designing a Fragment-Based Drug Discovery Paradigm
Dr. Edward ZARTLER
(MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES, Rahway, United States)
Fragment-Based Discovery: What Has it Achieved so far?
Dr. Alexander ALEX
(PFIZER, Sandwich, United Kingdom)
Fragment-Based Methods and the Discovery of BACE-1 Inhibitors for Alzheimer’s
Dr. Jeffrey ALBERT
(ASTRAZENECA, Wilmington, United States)
Session Chair
Prof. Pia VUORELA
(ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY, Turku, Finland)
Fluorometry and FRET in Measuring Biomarkers and Monitoring Cell Signaling Cascade
Dr. Ilkka HEMMILA
(PERKINELMER LIFE SCIENCES, Turku, Finland)
Mass Sensitive Ligands Useful for Biomarker Discovery and Validation
Dr. Peter SCHULZ-KNAPPE
(PROTEOME SCIENCES, Cobham, United Kingdom)
Oral communication
to be selected from submitted abstracts
Session Chair
Dr. Erden BANOGLU
(GAZI UNIVERSITY, Ankara, Turkey)
Natural Products as Tools to Identify Novel Drug Targets and Novel Therapeutic Interventions
Dr. Gunda I. GEORG
(UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA, Minneapolis, United States)
How to Use The Structural Diversity of Natural Products for Drug Discovery
Dr. Philipp KRASTEL
(NOVARTIS INSTITUTES FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH, Basel, Switzerland)
Oral communication
to be selected from submitted abstracts
10. Novel Approaches for Treatment of Neurodegenerative Diseases 11.
Type 2 Diabetes: The Incretin System 12. Progress in COPD and Asthma
Therapy
Session Chair
Dr. Magid ABOU-GHARBIA
(WYETH RESEARCH, Princeton, United States)
Title to be determined
Prof. Hilal A. LASHUEL
(EPFL – ECUBLENS, Lausanne, Switzerland)
Title to be determined
Dr. Steve JACOBSEN
(WYETH RESEARCH, Princeton, United States)
Oral communication
to be selected from submitted abstracts
Session Chair
Prof. Koen AUGUSTYNS
(UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP, Antwerp, Belgium)
Discovery of Sitagliptin and Rational Design of Other Novel DPP-4 Inhibitors
Dr. Tesfaye BIFTU
(MERCK & CO., Rahway, United States)
Peptidic and Nonpeptidic Glucagon-Like Peptide 1 Receptor Agonists
Dr. Jesper LAU
(NOVO NORDISK, Maaloev, Denmark)
Oral communication
to be selected from submitted abstracts
Session Chair
Dr. Matthias GRAUERT
(BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM, Biberach, Germany)
Recent Developments in CCR3 Antagonists
Dr. George V. DE LUCCA
(BRISTOL-MYERS SQUIBB, Princeton, United States)
Discovery of Potent and Highly Isoform Selective PI3Kg Inhibitors
Dr. Thomas RÜCKLE
(MERCK SERONO, Geneva, Switzerland)
Oral communication
to be selected from submitted abstracts
13. Allosteric Modulation and GPCR Drug Discovery 14. Oncology 15. Immunology & Immunomodulation
Session Chair
Prof. Rob LEURS
(VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
The Potential of Allosteric Modulation for GPCR Drug Discovery
Prof. Arthur CHRISTOPOULOS
(MONASH UNIVERSITY, Clayton, Australia)
Therapeutic Opportunities for Small Molecule Modulators of Chemokine Receptors
Dr. Thomas J. SCHALL
(CHEMOCENTRYX, Mountain View, United States)
Oral communication
to be selected from submitted abstracts
Session Chair
Dr. Graham WARRELLOW
(UCB SA, Cambridge, United Kingdom)
Eg5 Inhibitors
Dr. Christopher COX
(MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES, West Point, United States)
Allosteric Akt Inhibitors
Dr. George HARTMANN
(MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES, West-Point, United States)
PLK1 Inhibitor (BI-2536)
Dr. Matthias HOFFMANN
(BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM, Biberach, Germany)
Session Chair
Dr. Katerina LEFTHERIS
(BRISTOL-MYERS SQUIBB, Princeton, NJ, United States)
Current Aspects and Future Trends in Immunomodulation
Dr. Murray MCKINNON
(BRISTOL-MYERS SQUIBB, Princeton, United States)
Advances in Targeting Glucocorticoids
Dr. Hartmut REHWINKEL
(SCHERING, Berlin, Germany)
Oral communication
to be selected from submitted abstracts
16. Antispsychotic Targets 17. Antivirals 18. Pain
Session Chair
Prof. Klaus P. BOGESO
(H. LUNDBECK, Valby, Denmark)
NK3 Receptors
Prof. Klaus SIMONSEN
(H. LUNDBECK, Valby, Denmark)
PDE10 Inhibitors
Dr. Patrick Robert VERHOEST
(PFIZER GLOBAL RESEARCH, Groton, United States)
Oral communication
to be selected from submitted abstracts
Session Chair
Dr. Maria Jose CAMARASA
(SEQT, Madrid, Spain)
Title to be determined
Dr. Jan BALZARINI
(REGA INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH, Leuven, Belgium)
Lethal Mutagenesis as a New Antiviral Strategy
Prof. Esteban DOMINGO
(UNIVERSIDAD AUTONOMA DE MADRID, Madrid, Spain)
Oral communication
to be selected from submitted abstracts
Session Chair
Dr. Mark DUGGAN
(AMGEN, Cambridge, United States)
Title to be determined
Dr. Stefan MCDONOUGH
(AMGEN, Cambridge, United States)
Nav1.7 Inhibitors – Discovery and Development
Dr. Joseph L. DUFFY
(MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES, Rahway, United States)
Oral communication
Dr. Graham N. MAW
(PFIZER, Sandwich, United Kingdom)
19. Exploring the Chemical Space 20. Chemokines 21. Systems Level Research Informs Drug Target Identification and Therapy Design
Session Chair
Profs. Herbert WALDMANN & STEFAN WETZEL
(MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PHYSIOLOGY, Dortmund, Germany)
Title to be determined
Prof. Gisbert SCHNEIDER
(JOHANN WOLFGANG GOETHE UNIVERSITY, Frankfurt, Germany)
Title to be determined
Dr. Antonio MACCHIARULO
(UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA, Perugia, Italy)
Title to be determined
Prof. Jean-Louis REYMOND
(UNIVERSITÄT BERN, Bern, Switzerland)
Title to be determined
Dr. Stefan WETZEL
(MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PHYSIOLOGY, Dortmund, Germany)
Session Chair
Prof. Gerhard ECKER
(UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA & EFMC, Vienna, Austria)
Title to be determined
Prof. Nobutaka FUJII
(KYOTO UNIVERSITY, Kyoto, Japan)
Selective Dual CCR2/5 Antagonists
Dr. Wolfgang MILTZ
(NOVARTIS PHARMA, Basel, Switzerland)
Oral communication
to be selected from submitted abstracts
Session Chair
Prof. Harel WEINSTEIN
(CORNELL UNIVERSITY, New York, United States)
Drug Discovery, Drug Delivery and Therapeutic Monitoring by Molecular, Cellular and Functional Imaging of Atherothrombosis
Dr. Zahi A. FAYAD
(MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, New York, United States)
Understanding Drug Mechanisms and Designing Therapy at the Systems Level of the Functional Human Interactome
Prof. Gianni CESARENI
(UNIVERSITY OF ROME ‘TOR VERGATA’, Rome, Italy)
Special Structural, Dynamic and Functional Characteristics of Membrane
Proteins and their Signaling Partners that Determine the Mode and
Putative Success of Therapy Design Targeting Cellular Signaling Systems.
Prof. Harel WEINSTEIN
(CORNELL UNIVERSITY, New York, United States)
22. New Computational Approaches Supporting Drug Design 23.
Druggability of Protein-Protein Interactions 24. Systems Biology and
Medicinal Chemistry
Session Chair
Dr. Jordi MESTRES
(IMIM AND UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA, Barcelona, Spain)
Overview on New Computational Tools Supporting Drug Design
Prof. Tudor I. OPREA
(UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO, Albuquerque, United States)
Novel Tools for Data Gathering
Dr. Muthukumarasamy KARTHIKEYAN
(NATIONAL CHEMICAL LABORATORY, Pune, India)
Novel Tools for Data Classification
Dr. Ansgar SCHUFFENHAUER
(NOVARTIS INSTITUTES FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH, Basel, Switzerland)
Novel Tools for Data Exploitation
Dr. Elisabet GREGORI-PUIGJANE
(CHEMOTARGETS, Barcelona, Spain)
Session Chair
Dr. Peter NUSSBAUMER
(NOVARTIS, Vienna, Austria)
Title to be determined
Dr. Leonard J. PAGLIARO
(BIOIMAGE, Soeborg, Denmark)
Oral communication
to be selected from submitted abstracts
Oral communication
to be selected from submitted abstracts
Oral communication
to be selected from submitted abstracts
Session Chair
Prof. Christian NOE
(UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA, Vienna, Austria)
Network Based Drug Discovery
Prof. Hans WESTERHOFF
(VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Title to be determined
Prof. Christian NOE
(UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA, Vienna, Austria)
Oral communication
to be selected from submitted abstracts
25. Structure Based Drug Design (AFMC) 26. Modulators of Adenosine
and P2Y Receptors 27. Addressing Therapeutic Complexity in Oncology with
Med. Chem.
Session Chair
Prof. Esin AKI-SENER
(ANKARA UNIVERSITY, Ankara, Turkey)
Quantum Chemical Calculation of Protein-Ligand Interaction
Prof. Isao NAKANISHI
(KYOTO UNIVERSITY, Kyoto, Japan)
Title to be determined
Dr. Jose VARGHESE
(CSIRO, Parkville, Australia)
Oral communication
to be selected from submitted abstracts
Session Chair
Prof. Kenneth A. JACOBSON
(NIDDK, Bethesda, United States)
Engineering of Purine Receptors and Their Ligands
Prof. Kenneth A. JACOBSON
(NIDDK, Bethesda, United States)
Title to be determined
Prof. Pier Giovanni BARALDI
(UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA, Ferrara, Italy)
Allosteric Modulation of Purine Receptors
Prof. Ad P. IJZERMAN
(LEIDEN/AMSTERDAM CENTER FOR DRUG RESEARCH, Leiden, The Netherlands)
Session Chair
Dr. Graeme ROBERTSON
(SIENA BIOTECH, Siena, Italy)
Alternatives to Kinase Inhibitors for Cancer Therapies
Prof. Giovanni GAVIRAGHI
(SIENA BIOTECH, Siena, Italy)
Endothelin Converting Enzyme Inhibitors as Anticancer Agents for Human
Glioblastoma. A Comparison with Endothelin Receptor Antagonists
Dr. Lucienne JUILLERAT
(CENTRE HOSPITALIER UNIVERSITAIRE VAUDOIS, Lausanne, Switzerland)
Novel Kinase Inhibitors
Dr. Dirk HEERDING
(GLAXOSMITHKLINE, Collegeville, United States)
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