25 February 2025
What a chemist needs to know about biology 1: In vitro biology
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SCI's Young Chemists’ Panel
SCI, London, UK
Synopsis
This event is aimed at helping attendees understand the features and challenges of biology in pharmaceutical research. Lectures will improve your understanding of biochemistry and improve interactions with biology colleagues. You will have the opportunity to ask questions after the lectures and develop deeper knowledge.Included are tutorial-style lectures on fundamentals of in vitro assays and target selection. There will also be case studies applying these learnings to different target classes. Speakers from leading pharmaceutical companies will bring a wealth of experience in working cross-discipline.
This event is run back-to-back with ADMET 2025.
Attendees
This conference is aimed at academic and industrial medicinal chemists in early stages of their career points, with a focus on in-vitro biology techniques in early stages of drug discovery.
Sponsorship information
For further information and prices, please email conferences@soci.org.
Programme
Tuesday 25 February
- 09.15
- Registration and refreshments
- 09.55
- Welcome and introduction
- 10.00
- The druggable genome: past, present and future
Martin Swarbrick, Ryvu Therapeutics - 10.55
- Understanding and Interpreting in vitro Assays, Part 1: Biochemical Basics
Oliver Mace, Vertex - 11.45
- Refreshment break
- 12.10
- Understanding and Interpreting in vitro Assays, Part 2: Functional Fundamentals
Oliver Mace, Vertex - 13.00
- Lunch
- 14.00
- A case study; Developing antibiotics
Alastair Parkes, Evotec - 14.50
- A case study: Protein degradation
Aileen Frost, Centre for Targeted Protein Degradation - 15.40
- Refreshment break
- 16.05
- Biology to the rescue… Lessons learnt the hard way through delivering drugs against tough targets
Allan Jordan, Sygnature Discovery - 16.55
- Closing remarks
- 17.00
- Networking reception
SCI’s Young Chemists’ Panel are committed to promoting diversity and equality in the chemical sciences. We aim to identify high quality speakers for all our conferences with inclusivity of gender and ethnicity. Attendees from all backgrounds and ages are welcome.
Accessibility Grants
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Venue and Contact
SCI
14/15 Belgrave Square
London
SW1X 8PS
Conference Team
Tel: +44 (0)20 7598 1561
Email: conferences@soci.org
Fees
| Early bird ends Wednesday 15 January 2025 SCI Member - £115 Non-member - £170 Student Member - £40 |
| After early bird SCI Member - £165 Non-member - £220 Student Member - £70 |
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CPD Info
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Organising committee
Tim Gorman, EvotecKimberley Roper, University of Birmingham
Adam Smalley, UCB
Russell Wood, Concept Life Sciences
Helen Jones, AstraZeneca
Dominik Reich, BenevolentAI