MedChem 2023

Medicinal Chemistry 2.0: Emerging Trends Enabling Drug Discovery of the Future

Annual One-Day Meeting on Medicinal Chemistry of SRC & KVCV

 Brussels, Belgium    December 8, 2023

Programme


08:00

Registration

08:50

Opening

Dr Laurent PROVINS
UCB, Braine-l'Alleud, Belgium

Session Chair

Prof. Gilles BERGER
ULB, Brussels, Belgium
09:00

PL01 - Bioorthogonal and Chemoenzymatic Tools for Targeted Drug Delivery

Dr Kimberly BONGER
RADBOUD UNIVERSITY, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
09:50

Chemistry Europe Lecture
PL02 - Synthetic Molecular Probes for the Detection of Pathogens and Reactive Oxygen Species

Dr Boris VAUZEILLES
CNRS - INSTITUT DE CHIMIE DES SUBSTANCES NATURELLES, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
10:40

Coffee break and Exhibition

11:15

OC01 - Selecting Nanobodies to Disrupt the TSPYL5-USP7 Protein-Protein Interaction

Ms Marine ANCIA
UCLOUVAIN, Brussels, Belgium
11:35

PL03 - Applying AI to Precision Engineer Medicines

Dr Martin LOWE
EXSCIENTIA, Oxford, United Kingdom
12:25

Lunch, Exhibition and Poster session

Session Chair

Prof. Raphaël FREDERICK
UCLOUVAIN, Brussels-Woluwe, Belgium
14:00

PL04 - Machine Learning Tools to Accelerate the Chemical Sciences

Dr Tiago RODRIGUES
UNIVERSITY OF LISBON, Lisbon, Portugal
14:50

PL05 - Drugging the Undruggable: Advances in Targeted Protein Degradation

Dr Dylan LYNCH
UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE, Dundee, United Kingdom
15:40

Coffee break, Exhibition and Poster Session

16:15

OC02 - Discovery of Novel Small Molecules Binders of Soluble Mutant HTT and Derivatization into PROTACs

Dr Geoffrey SCHWERTZ
UCB BIOPHARMA, Braine l'Alleud, Belgium
16:35

OC03 - Liver-Targeted Autophagy Modulators: A Novel Approach to Combatting NAFLD

Dr Lorenzo CIANNI
UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERPEN, Antwerp, Belgium
16:55

PL06 - Leaving Serendipity Behind: Rational Discovery and Design of Molecular Glue Degraders

Dr Magnus WALTER
MONTE ROSA THERAPEUTICS, Basel, Switzerland
17:45

AL01 - CGB-CBB Incentive Award
Controlling the Reactivity of Metal Substituted Polyoxometalates as Artificial Proteases: from General Perspectives to Potential Applications

Dr Nada D. SAVIC
KU LEUVEN, Leuven, Belgium
18:05

Closing Remarks

Dr Laurent PROVINS
UCB, Braine-l'Alleud, Belgium