EFMC-YMCS 2014

1st EFMC Young Medicinal Chemists' Symposium

 Lisbon, Portugal    September 12, 2014

Programme


Coffee/registration

Welcome and opening

Keynote lecture I

Medicinal Chemistry Optimisation of Phenotypic Whole cell Screening Hits from SoftFocus Libraries

Prof. Kelly CHIBALE
UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN, Cape Town, South Africa

YMCS competition presentation session I

Session Chair:

Dr Chris DE GRAAF
VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM, Cambridge, United Kingdom

A Chemical Probe for the CBP/P300 Bromodomains.
Winner of the young medicinal chemist meeting in The United Kingdom

Dr Duncan HAY
EVOTEC, Abingdon, United Kingdom

Continuous Flow Chemistry as an Enabling Discovery Tool: Insights Into a Medchem and a Nutraceutical Application.
Winner of the young medicinal chemist meeting in Italy

Dr Lucia TAMBORINI
UNIVERSITÀ DI MILANO, Milano, Italy

De Novo Structure-based Design of Novel Inhibitors of the Aspartic Protease Endothiapsin Exploiting Dynamic Combinatorial Chemistry

Mr Milon MONDAL
, Groningen, The Netherlands

Coffee break

YMCS competition presentation session II

Session Chair:

Dr Rita GUEDES
UNIVERSITY OF LISBON, Lisbon, Portugal

Straightforward Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of Sirna Prodrugs Partially Modified by Privaloyloxymethyl Groups.
Winner of the young medicinal chemist meeting in France

Mrs Christelle DUPOUY
UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTPELLIER, Montpellier, France

Novel targeting of lipid signaling in aggressive breast cancer: A new therapeutic approach.
Winner of the young medicinal chemist meeting in Israel

Dr Nir BEN CHETRIT
WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE, Rehovot, Israel

Molecular mechanisms of functional selectivity of fenoterol derivatives towards the B2-Adrenergic Receptor.
Winner of the young medicinal chemist meeting in Poland

Mrs Karolina PAJAK
MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LUBLIN, Lublin, Poland

De Novo Design of Lead-Like Chemical Entities for Kinase and GPCR Drug Targets

Dr Tiago RODRIGUES
ETH ZÜRICH, Zürich, Switzerland

Flash poster presentations

Dr Ewald EDINK
VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM, Delft, The Netherlands
Dr Stéphanie GUERET
NOVARTIS INSTITUTES FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH, Mölndal, Sweden
Mr Rudi OLIVEIRA
IMED.ULISBOA, Lisboa, Portugal
Ms Eleni KOTSAMPASAKOU
UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA, Vienna, Austria
Mrs Sofia ALEXANDRE SANTOS
UNIVERSITY OF LISBON, Lisbon, Portugal
Dr Ana RESSURREICAO
IMED.ULISBOA (INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGAÇÃO DO MEDICAMENTO), Lisboa, Portugal
Mr Rafal URNIAZ
MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LUBLIN, Lublin, Poland
Mrs Sara Cristina COVAS DA SILVA
UNIVERSITY OF LISBON, Lisboa, Portugal
Ms Ramatoulie CAMARA
UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE, Hatfield, United Kingdom
Mrs Mariana REIS
FACULTY OF PHARMACY -LISBON, Lisboa, Portugal
Ms Daria GOLDMANN
UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA, Vienna, Austria
Mr Carlos Jorge AZEVEDO COSTA RIBEIRO
INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGAÇÃO DO MEDICAMENTO (IMED.ULISBOA), Lisbon, Portugal
Dr Andrea UNZUE
UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH, Zurich, Switzerland
Dr Agnese Chiara PIPPIONE
UNIVERSITY OF TURIN, Torino, Italy
Dr Agnese Chiara PIPPIONE
UNIVERSITY OF TURIN, Torino, Italy
Mr Pedro MIGUEL CAL
PHARMACY FACULTY - LISBON UNIVERSITY, Algés, Portugal
Dr Frans SMIT
NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY - SOUTH AFRICA, Potchefstroom, South Africa
Ms Nagore Isabel MARÍN RAMOS
COMPLUTENSE UNIVERSITY OF MADRID, Madrid, Spain
Ms Marzena BARAN
JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE, Krakow, Poland
Dr Davide CARTA
UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA, Padova, Italy
Ms Marta CARRASCO
FACULTY OF PHARMACY, UNIVERSITY OF LISBON, Lisbon, Portugal

YMCS poster presentation session and lunch

YMCS competition presentation session III

Session Chair:

Dr Fabrizio GIORDANETTO
TAROS CHEMICALS, New York, United States

Functional Fragment Screening at GPCRS: Towards Signalling-Biased Fragments.
Winner of the young medicinal chemist meeting in The Netherlands

Dr Saskia NIJMEIJER
VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM, AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands

Maximizing the Performance of Consensus Scoring in Protein-Ligand Docking.
Winner of the young medicinal chemist meeting in Greece

Mr Thomas EVANGELIDIS
UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS, Athens, Greece

Glycodendropeptides as a Potential Vaccine againsts Influenza A Virus.
Winner of the young medicinal chemist meeting in Spain

Dr Ainhoa MASCARAQUE
CSIC, Sevilla, Spain

Optimising In Vivo Probes for the BET Bromodomains

Ms Laura JENNINGS
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, Oxford, United Kingdom

A Unified Approach for Rational Lead Discovery/Lead Optimization Toward Low Nanomolar Human Neutrophil Elastase Inhibitor Discovery

Dr Susana DIAS LUCAS
INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGAÇÃO DO MEDICAMENTO (IMED.ULISBOA), Lisboa, Portugal

Coffee break

Keynote lecture II

Keynote Speakers

Dr Alexander V. MAYWEG
F. HOFFMANN-LA ROCHE LTD, Basel, Switzerland

Closing and award ceremony

Taros YMCS Presentation Prize

Royal Society of Chemistry YMCS Poster Prize

Roche YMCS Public's Choice Prize

YMCS Networking and drinks