Half-day symposium on
«Macrocycles in Drug- and Agrochemical Discovery»
Tuesday, May 24, 2016, 13:30 - 17:45
Big Lecture Hall, Department of Chemistry
University of Basel, St. Johanns-Ring 19
This year's annual symposium organized by the Division of Medicinal Chemistry & Chemical Biology of the Swiss Chemical Society is dedicated to the topic of Macrocycles in Drug- and Agrochemical Discovery.
This free event is gathering five globally renowed international experts in the field that will showcase the importance of this topic in drug discovery.
Program
13.30h | Introduction |
13.35h | Adrian Whitty, Boston University, How proteins bind macrocycles |
14.20h | Jeremy Duvall, Ensemble Therapeutics Corp. Discovery and development of highly selective and orally bioavailable macrocyclic IDO-1 inhibitors |
15.05h | Coffee Break |
15.30h | Alexander Dömling, University of Groningen Synthetic macrocycles for protein protein interactions using multi-component reactions chemistry |
16.15h | Andrei Yudin, University of Toronto and Encycle Macrocyclization strategies based on amphoteric molecules |
17.00 | Steve Smith, Syngenta Macrocycles as inspiration for Agrochemical Discovery |
Contact
Dr. Yves P Auberson
President, Division of Medicinal Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Swiss Chemical Society
Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research
WKL-136.6.82, Klybeckstrasse 141
4002 Basel, Switzerland
Registration
No registration – free admission
Sponsors
David Spichiger, SCS
16.02.2016