3rd Alpine Winter Conference on Medicinal and Synthetic Chemistry
Keynote Speakers
Monday January 24, 2022
Methodologies to Understand Cellular Target Interaction
Session Chair
Prof. Per ARTURSSON
(UPPSALA UNIVERSITY, Uppsala, Sweden)
13:15Opening Ceremony
Dr Klemens HOEGENAUER (NOVARTIS INSTITUTES FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH, Basel, Switzerland)
Dr Karl Heinz KRAWINKLER (NOVARTIS INSTITUTES FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH, Basel, Switzerland)
Dr Antonia F. STEPAN (F. HOFFMANN-LA ROCHE LTD, Basel, Switzerland)
13:30IL01 - Intracellular Oligonucleotide Distribution and Protein Binding
Dr Alice GHIDINI
(ASTRAZENECA, Gothenburg, Sweden)
13:50IL02 - Monitoring Drug Selectivity and Target Engagement Across Systems – Thermal Shift Assay in Drug Discovery
Dr Anna RUTKOWSKA-KLUTE
(GSK, Heidelberg, Germany)
14:10Break
14:25IL03 - Molecular Chameleonicity and Cell Permeability of Drugs and PROTACs in the bRo5 Space
Prof. Jan KIHLBERG
(UPPSALA UNIVERSITY, Uppsala, Sweden)
14:45IL04 - Lessons in Transcellular Membrane Permeability Re-Learned
Dr Mike HANN
(GSK MEDICINES RESEARCH CENTRE, Stevenage, United Kingdom)
15:05Session Discussion
15:25End of Session
Networking & Exhibition
Targeting Unstructured Proteins
Session Chair
Dr Hasane RATNI
(F. HOFFMANN-LA ROCHE LTD, Basel , Switzerland)
15:55Introduction
16:00IL05 - Innovative Strategies to Target Non-Coding RNAs with Synthetic Ligands
Dr Maria DUCA
(UNIVERSITY OF CÔTE D'AZUR, Nice, France)
16:20IL06 - Targeting Transcription Factors for Treating Human Cancers and Auto Immune and Inflammatory Diseases
Dr Doriano FABBRO
(CELLESTIA BIOTECH AG, arlesheim, Switzerland)
16:40Break
16:55IL07 - Drugging RNA – A Structure-based Approach
Dr Jacques DUMAS
(ARRAKIS THERAPEUTICS, Boston, United States)
17:15IL08 - Design of Zotatifin (eFT226), a First-in-Class Inhibitor of the RNA Helicase eIF4A
Dr Christian NILEWSKI
(GENENTECH, South San Francisco, United States)
17:35KL01 - Attenuating Oncogenic Transcription with Small Molecules
 (SANOFI-AVENTIS DEUTSCHLAND GMBH)
Prof. Angela KOEHLER (MIT KOCH INSTITUTE FOR INTEGRATIVE CANCER RESEARCH, Cambridge, United States)
18:15Session Discussion
18:45End of the Day
Tuesday January 25, 2022
Poster Session I - Odd Numbers
Networking & Exhibition
Automation and Machine Learning Applications for Medicinal Chemistry
Session Chair
Dr Michael WLEKLINSKI
(MERCK & CO., INC., Kenilworth, United States)
13:15Introduction
13:20IL09 - Enabling Fragment-based Drug Discovery (FBDD) with Automated Synthesis Technologies
Dr Rachel GRAINGER
(ASTEX PHARMACEUTICALS, Cambridge, United Kingdom)
13:40IL10 - Rapid Development of Robust Reactions and Multi-Step Syntheses
Prof. Alexei LAPKIN
(UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, Cambridge, United Kingdom)
14:00Break
14:15IL11 - High-Throughput Experimentation Capabilities to Accelerate Discovery Chemistry
Dr Iulia STRAMBEANU
(JOHNSON AND JOHNSON, King of Prussia, United States)
14:35Session discussion
14:55End of Session
Networking & Exhibition
Increasing sp3 Fragment Options: Advances in the Synthesis of Small Ring Systems
Session Chair
Dr James MOUSSEAU
(HALDA THERAPEUTICS, New Haven, United States)
15:25Introduction
15:30IL12 - Exploring and exploiting propellanes
Prof. Ed ANDERSON
(UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, Oxford, United Kingdom)
15:50IL13 - The Next Generation of BCPs: Exploring Substitutions on the Bridge
Dr Xiaoshen MA
(MERCK & CO., INC, Boston, United States)
16:10Break
16:25IL14 - Synthesis and Functionalization of Cyclopropane Derivatives
Dr Sophie ROUSSEAUX
(UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO, Toronto, Canada)
16:45IL15 - No Strain, No Gain: Advances in the Synthesis and Design of New Classes of Building Blocks
Prof. Kevin BROWN
(INDIANA UNIVERSITY, Bloomington, United States)
17:05Session Discussion
17:25End of the Day
Wednesday January 26, 2022
Understanding PK and PK/PD relationships in drug discovery - Target Mediated Drug Disposition
Session Chair
Dr Stephanie HARLFINGER
(ASTRAZENECA, Cambridge, United Kingdom)
13:15Introduction
13:20IL16 - General Introduction to TMDD
Dr David FAIRMAN
(GSK, Cambridge, United Kingdom)
13:40IL17 - Concept of Pharmacologic Target-Mediated Drug Disposition (TMDD) in Large-Molecule and Small-Molecule Compounds
Prof. Guohua AN
(THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA COLLEGE OF PHARMACY, Iowa City, United States)
14:00Break
14:15IL18 - Understanding the PKPD and ADME of PF-07059013: An Allosteric Modulator of a High Abundance Target
Dr Kevin BEAUMONT
(ASTRAZENECA, Cambridge, United Kingdom)
14:35IL19 - Importance of Mechanistic Models in AHD Prediction (IL)
Dr Birgit SCHOEBERL
(NOVARTIS INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH, Cambridge, MA, United States)
14:55Session Discussion
15:15End of Session
Networking & Exhibition
Drug Discovery Tales (I)
Session Chair
Dr Nadia M. AHMAD
(CHARLES RIVER LABORATORIES, Harlow, United Kingdom)
15:45Introduction
15:50OC01 - Design and Synthesis of Novel RNA Binders for Therapeutic Applications
Dr Maurinne BONNET
(ICN, Nice, France)
16:10OC02 - Is Resistance Futile? Discovery of Clinical Candidate AZD3229, A Pan-Mutant C-KIT Inhibitor
Dr James SMITH
(ASTRAZENECA, Cambridge, United Kingdom)
16:30Break
16:45KL02 - Drug Discovery: Where are we Headed?
Dr Wendy YOUNG
(MPM CAPITAL, Brisbane, CA, United States)
17:25Session Discussion
17:45End of the Day
Thursday January 27, 2022
Poster Session II - Even Numbers
Networking & Exhibition
Drug Discovery Tales (II)
Session Chair
Dr Nadia M. AHMAD
(CHARLES RIVER LABORATORIES, Harlow, United Kingdom)
13:15Introduction
13:20OC03 - Discovery of a Selective ALK2 Kinase Inhibitor for the Treatment of a Rare Genetic Bone Disease
Dr Thomas ULLRICH
(NOVARTIS PHARMA AG, Basel, Switzerland)
13:40OC04 - Dissociative Inhibitors of Thymidylate Synthase Homodimer Accelerate its Proteasomal Degradation and Inhibit Cancer Growth in Vivo
Prof. Maria Paola COSTI
(UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA, Modena, Italy)
14:00Break
14:15OC05 - Rational Design of Light-Controlled Bioactive Compounds for Photopharmacology
Mr Piermichele KOBAURI
(UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN FSSC, Groningen, The Netherlands)
14:35OC06 - Towards the Design of Cell Division Cycle 25 Phosphatases Inhibitors as Anticancer Agents
Dr Carmen CERCHIA
(UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II, Naples, Italy)
14:55Session Discussion
15:15End of Session
Networking & Exhibition
Covalent Targeting: Innovating for the Future
Session Chair
Dr Vishal VERMA
(GENENTECH, INC., South San Francisco, United States)
15:45Introduction
15:50IL20 - Lysine-Targeting Covalent Inhibitors
Dr Matthew CHEESEMAN
(THE INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH, Sutton, United Kingdom)
16:10IL21 - Reversible-covalent Inhibitors of the Kinase Activity of FGFR4
Dr Robin FAIRHURST
(NOVARTIS, Basel, Switzerland)
16:30Break
16:45IL22 - Studies with Cyanamide-Based Janus Kinase 3 (JAK3) Covalent Inhibitors
Dr Agustin CASIMIRO-GARCIA
(PFIZER, United States)
17:05Session Discussion
17:25End of the Day
Friday January 28, 2022
The "Catalytic Cycle" of Complex Molecule Synthesis and Methodology Development
Session Chair
Prof. Tanja GAICH
(UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ, Konstanz, Germany)
13:00Introduction
13:05IL23 - Flow-based Methods for Chemical Peptide and Protein Synthesis".
Prof. Nina HARTRAMPF
(UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH, Zürich, Switzerland)
13:25IL24 - Prins Cyclization in Natural Product Synthesis
Prof. Ang LI
(SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY, Shanghai, China)
13:45Break
14:00IL25 - Taming Multifaceted Nickel Catalysts: An Academic Fascination
Prof. Ruben MARTIN
(INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH OF CATALONIA, Tarragona, Spain)
14:20IL26 - Computationally Augmented Total Synthesis
Dr Timothy NEWHOUSE
(YALE UNIVERSITY, New Haven, United States)
14:40KL03 - Functionalization of N-Heterocycles using Li, Mg, and Zn Organometallics
Prof. Paul KNOCHEL
(LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY, Munich, Germany)
15:20Session Discussion
15:50Closing Ceremony
16:00End of Alpine Winter Conference 2022

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