Programme

Registration will open at 9am and refreshments will be available.

Time Title Speaker Affiliation
Session 1: Chair - Dr Frank Blaney, GSK
9.50 - 10.00 Opening Remarks Dr Darren Flower Jenner Institute
10.00 - 10.50 Plenary Lecture: Computational Drug Discovery.
Prof Graham Richards University of Oxford
10.50 - 11.20 Secret Diary of a Modeller: Confessions from Beyond the Cutting Edge. Dr Christopher Woods University of Bristol
11.20 - 11.50 The changing face of the kinase ATP site: new binding modes and evolutionary library design. Dr Dave Sheppard Biofocus DPI
11.50 - 12.20 Understanding biological and chemical space using data visualisation tools and techniques Dr Trevor Howe Johnson and Johnson
12.20 - 13.30 LUNCH and Exhibition
Session 2: Chair - Dr Christine Richardson, Biofocus DPI
13.30 - 14.00 Case studies and experiences from fragment based drug design. Dr Chris Murray Astex Therapeutics
14.00 - 14.30 Structure-based design of protein kinase inhibitors. Dr Paul Bamborough GSK
14.30 - 15.00 Experiences with docking studies: successes and challenges. Dr Nicolas Foloppe Vernalis
15.00 - 15.30 Refreshments
Session 3: Chair - Dr Steve Maginn, CCG
15.30 - 16.00 Integration of computational and predictive ADMET into Drug Design. Dr Mark Cronin Liverpool John Moores University
16.00 - 16.30 Title to be confirmed. Dr Andy Davis AstraZeneca
16.30 - 16.35 Closing Remarks