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