Schedule, Abstracts and Biographies for the eCheminfo Autumn Community of
Practice meeting program at Bryn Mawr College, Philadelphia in October on
"Latest Advances in Drug Discovery & Development" are now available through
the eCheminfo website:
http://echeminfo.colayer.net/COMTY_conferencesprog07
The meeting brochure may also be downloaded as a pdf:
http://barryhardy.blogs.com/cheminfostream/files/eChemProgramBrynMawr07-web1.PDF
Sponsors
I would like to express our gratitude to the invaluable support of our Sponsors
Merck Research Laboratories, Schering-Plough Research Institute, Johnson
& Johnson PR&D, the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC), SimBioSys
and Tripos.
Poster Session
We will be running poster sessions in the evenings at the meeting with themes:
knowledge management (Tuesday), drug design (Wednesday) and drug development
and ADMET (Thursday). This option is available to all meeting attendees
and we will include all approved abstracts received by 31 August on the
formal program. Please send your abstract and biography of ca. 300-500 words
each to eCheminfo (!-at-!) douglasconnect.com for approval.
Invited Speakers:
Stephen Burley (SGX Pharmaceuticals), Georgia McGaughey (Merck), Charles
Lesburg (Schering-Plough), Rick Beger (FDA), Marc Nicklaus (NIH), Woody
Sherman (Schrodinger), Daniel Cheney (Bristol Myers Squibb), Paul Labute
(Chemical Computing Group), Ajay Jain (UCSF), Alan Cheng (Amgen), Tony Hopfinger
(University of New Mexico), Anthony Klon (Pharmacopeia Drug Discovery),
Artem Cherkasov (University of British Columbia), Dennis Pelletier (Pfizer),
Chaohong Sun (Abbott), Xavier Barril (University of Barcelona), Jose Duca
(Schering-Plough), Terry Stouch (Lexicon Pharmaceuticals), Natasja Brooijmans
(Wyeth), Gerard Kleywegt (University of Uppsala), Vladimir Poroikov (Russian
Academy of Sciences), Christoph Helma (in silico toxicology), Ann Richard
(EPA), Judy Madden (Liverpool John Moores University), Julian Tirado-Rives
(Yale), Heather Carlson (University of Michigan), Joseph Tomaszewski (NCI),
Joseph Contrera (FDA), Christopher Austin (NIH), Jerome Hert (UCSF), Renate
Sekul (Graffinity)
Workshops
In addition to what I believe will be an excellent conference program and
discussions, we will also be running hands-on workshops working on the nuances
and subtleties of applying leading design and modeling software to practical
drug discovery problems. Often in computational chemistry, small changes
in feature or parameter selection can have a significant effect on your
results, so this is an opportunity to pick up tips, tricks and awareness.
Seminars and Hands-on Workshops will be given by leading software application
scientists including SimBioSys, Tripos, OpenEye, and CCDC. A one day pre-meeting
workshop on best practices in virtual screening will take place on Monday
October 15. (Reference: http://barryhardy.blogs.com/cheminfostream/virtual_screening/index.html
)
Early Registration
Early registration and reduced rates close on June 30. Potential registrants
should contact Nicki Douglas (nicki.douglas (!-at-!) douglasconnect.com)
over registration including early, group, and 50% academic and government
research discounts.
best regards
Barry Hardy
Community of Practice Manager
Barry Hardy, PhD
Douglas Connect
Switzerland
Tel: +41 61 851 0170
Email: barry.hardy (!-at-!) douglasconnect.com
