SMi’s 3rd Annual Drug Discovery Chemistry
Copthorne Tara Hotel, London, UK (March 18-20, 2019)
SMi’s 3rd Annual Drug Discovery Chemistry
Developing your R&D pipeline with strategies to deliver small molecules
Conference: 18 – 19 March 2019
Workshop: 20 March 2019
CHAIRED BY: Roderick Hubbard, Senior Fellow, Vernalis Research Ltd and Darren Green, Director of Molecular Design, GSK
Sponsored by: Selvita
SMi is proud to present its 3rd Annual Drug Discovery Chemistry event, taking place on the 18th-19th March 2019.
The fight to optimise the drug discovery process is on as there is currently a reduced output of new medicines within the market, however, demand for novel drugs is still steadily increasing.
This year’s event will specifically focus on innovations within the field that has the potential to drive the pharmaceutical industry into a new era of medicines, with optimization of the R&D process to become cheaper, faster and increasing the likelihood of drug efficacy and success. These are some of the major obstacles within drug discovery at present, as the process is overall long, expensive and often potential drugs will fail late in clinical trials, wasting resources and time.
The event will also focus on novel techniques that can be implemented within the field today that can identify new druggable targets and possibly open new therapeutic areas within the clinic. This could offer opportunities for pharmaceutical companies to produce medicines for diseases and ailments that have previously not been targeted, and likewise, offer new drug targets for existing diseases that could potentially offer better clinical outcomes, such as within the development of cancer drugs.
Drug Discovery Chemistry will look at various developments within the field, guiding companies on how they can best utilize the newest technologies and drug discovery modalities to develop new medicines, reduce their R&D cost and timelines, and ultimately, increase their medicine output for commercial success.
Event Hashtag: #SMiDrugDisChem
KEY TOPICS FOR 2019 INCLUDE:
- Discuss the impact of the use of novel computational techniques on R&D pipelines
- Hear about the progress in the development of new drugs on difficult targets and how these can revolutionise patient treatment
- Discover how AI is being utilised in the commercial setting and opportunities to best exploit these to streamline the Drug Discovery Process
- Explore the potential of new modalities to transform therapeutics
- Learn about current strategies to increase drug discovery success
Post conference workshop on 20 March 2019
Artificial Intelligence in Drug Discovery
Led by: Nick Camp, Consultant
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
CEOs, Presidents, Vice Presidents and Global Heads, Executive Directors, Vice President & Global head, Principal Scientists, Heads of Business Development, Directors of Pharma/Biotech firms.
