The symposium aims to build and sustain bridges between the European and American Medicinal Chemistry communities, and to showcase a specific regions and its medicinal chemistry activities. The meeting traditionally attracts around 300 participants, from industry and academia.

The Program will Include

• Three high quality plenary lectures
• Nine sessions on key topics in Medicinal Chemistry
  • Enabling Chemistries for Chemical Biology Research
    Chair: Prof. Daniel Harki, University of Minnesota, US
  • Advances in Targeted Protein Degradation
    Chair: Prof. Terry Moore, University of Illinois, US
  • A Focus on Early Career Investigators
    Chair: Dr Melissa Grenier-Davies, GlaxoSmithKline, US
  • Chemical Modulation of RNA
    Chair: Dr Darby Schmidt, Sonata Therapeutics, US
  • Computational Approaches to Identify and Target Cryptic and Allosteric Pockets
    Chair: Dr Malin Lemurell, AstraZeneca, SE
  • Drug Targets in GPCR Signalling
    Chair: Prof. György Keseru, Research Centre for Natural Sciences (RCNS), HU
  • Getting Out of the Starting Block: New Hit Finding and Chemotype Advancement Methods
    Chair: Dr Carolyn Dzierba, BMS, US
  • Organic Synthesis Impacting Medicinal Chemistry & Chemical Biology
    Chair: Prof. Rui Moreira, University of Lisbon, PT
  • Proximity-inducing Molecules and their Therapeutic Applications
    Chair: Dr Amit Choudhary, Broad Institute, US
• An extensive social program to maximise networking opportunities
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• A poster session and an exhibition

Confirmed Speakers Include

• Dr Maria DUCA, UNIVERSITY OF CÔTE D’AZUR, Nice, France
• Dr Mark P. FARRELL, UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, Lawrence, KS, United States
• Dr Fleur M. FERGUSON, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, San Diego, CA, United States
• Dr Fabio LIMA, NOVARTIS, Basel, Switzerland
• Prof. Christa MÜLLER, UNIVERSITY OF BONN, Bonn, Germany
• Dr Justin RETTENMAIER, JNANA THERAPEUTICS, Boston, MA, United States
• Dr Tiago RODRIGUES, UNIVERSITY OF LISBON, Lisbon, Portugal
• Prof. Edward TATE, IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON, London, United Kingdom
• Prof. Christina WOO, HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Cambridge, MA, United States