October
Medicinal Chemistry
Strategy Meeting Europe 2024
Reinvigorating Productivity in Pharma & Biotech R&D Through Advanced Technologies and Innovative Techniques that Interrogate Activity and Mechanisms
What makes our strategy meetings unique?
Roundtable Discussions
Intimate discussions led by renowned industry experts. Have your voice heard and debate alongside like-minded life science executives.
Unrivalled Networking
With senior delegation from big pharma and innovative biotech from across Europe, you can network with peers from different locations, all in one place.
Personalised Agenda
Choose the topics that matter to you. Reserve your place at the roundtable discussions and ensure your whole day delivers the insights you need to hear.
Solutions to your Problems
We’ve partnered with the best solution providers to solve your biggest challenges. Engage in pre-arranged, private meetings to address your specific needs and find a tangible solution.
Industry Researched Topics
We guarantee our agenda is up-to-date and mission critical because its designed by you. We speak to our extended network of senior decision makers to ensure the most important topics are discussed.
Senior Decision Makers
The entire strategy meeting is specifically tailored to the needs and challenges of senior life science professionals. Discover how your peers are dealing with the same challenges as you.
Meet Our Facilitators
Our panel of facilitators play a key role in shaping the agenda for the day. See who will be bringing their expertise to the table at our Past Medicinal Chemistry strategy meeting.
Alexander Hillisch
Head of Global CADD UCBAndrew Woodhead
Head of Chemistry Astex PharmaceuticalsChandan Seth Nanda
Vice President of Target & Drug Discovery Pear BioDaniel Gironés
Managing Director Sapiens Natura PharmaIsmail Ijjaali
Sr. Principal Product Specialist PerkinElmer InformaticsLewis Vidler
Senior Director – Structure Based Drug Design Eli Lilly and CompanyMarkus Queisser
Scientific Director GSKMartin Swarbick
Director R&D Chemistry Ryvu TherapeuticsThomas Fuchss
Director of Medicinal Chemistry MerckVaibhav Verdhan
Senior Director Global AstraZenecaWerngard Czechtizky
Executive Director, Head of Medicinal Chemistry, Respiratory and Immunology AstraZenecaSee Which Topics Are Discussed at the Strategy Meeting
Patient-Centered Cancer Precision Medicine
Roundtable Tracks
1Leveraging Generative Modeling to Accelerate Drug Discovery
-Alexander Hillisch
Head of Global CADD
UCB
Chemical Biology, Targeted Protein Degradation & Undruggables
Drugging the Undruggable: How Targeted Protein Degradation is Expanding the Reach of Small Molecule Therapeutics
-Werngard Czechtizky
Executive Director, Head of Medicinal Chemistry, Respiratory and Immunology
AstraZeneca
Hit Identification/Lead Optimization
Screening Strategies in Hit-to-Lead Design: How to diminish attrition rate in Drug Discovery?
-Daniel Gironés
Managing Director
Sapiens Natura Pharma
Design & Synthesis
Design And Synthesis In The Age Of AI And Biologic-Small Molecule Hybrids
Integrated Drug Discovery
Advancing the Frontier: Harnessing Deep Learning and Generative AI for Molecule Design, Drug Discovery, and Optimization in Chemistry
-Thomas Fuchss
Director of Medicinal Chemistry
Merck
Roundtable Tracks
2Revolutionizing Drug Discovery: Unleashing AI and Generative Modeling for Molecular Innovation.
-Werngard Czechtizky
Executive Director, Head of Medicinal Chemistry, Respiratory and Immunology
AstraZeneca
Chemical Biology, Targeted Protein Degradation & Undruggables
From Concept to Clinic: Navigating Challenges in the Development of Innovative Medicinal Chemistry Modalities
-Markus Queisser
Scientific Director
GSK
Hit Identification/Lead Optimization
Understanding The Future Of High Throughput Screening And How We Might Be Able To Reach Undruggable Targets.
-Martin Swarbick
Director R&D Chemistry
Ryvu Therapeutics
Design & Synthesis
Design And Synthesis In The Age Of AI
-Lewis Vidler
Senior Director – Structure Based Drug Design
Eli Lilly and Company
Integrated Drug Discovery
Integrating Cutting-Edge Chemistry in Drug Discovery: Driving Innovation and Precision in Pharmaceutical Development
New Modalities in Drug Discovery: Navigating Informatics Challenges
Roundtable Tracks
3Harnessing AI and Machine Learning for Strategic Customer Targeting: Driving Revenue Growth and Maximizing Market Share in Competitive Markets
-Vaibhav Verdhan
Senior Director Global
AstraZeneca
Chemical Biology, Targeted Protein Degradation & Undruggables
The Future of Protein Degradation: How E3-Ligase Screens are Shaping the Next Generation of Therapeutics
-Markus Queisser
Scientific Director
GSK
Hit Identification/Lead Optimization
Towards Targeted Therapies: Overcoming Challenges in Hit Identification and Lead Optimization
Design & Synthesis
Using protein-ligand structural data to drive compound design
-Andrew Woodhead
Head of Chemistry
Astex Pharmaceuticals
Integrated Drug Discovery
How can we best combine HT cell-based screening, omics, ML/AI and chemical probes to identify novel targets, support early target validation and progress transformative molecules into the clinic?
-Werngard Czechtizky
Executive Director, Head of Medicinal Chemistry, Respiratory and Immunology
AstraZeneca
Bridging Science and Investment: A Dialogue on Drug Discovery, Venture Strategies, Biotech Progress, and the Revolutionary Landscape of Pharmaceuticals
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Reasons To Attend Our Strategy Meetings
Fully Interactive Format
There’s only so much you can learn from presentations and lectures. Instead our interactive Roundtable Discussions let you debate the topics that really matter
Senior Decision Makers
All our Strategy Meetings are aimed at director level and above. Discover how your peers are tackling the industries biggest challenges and have your thoughts heard
Personalised Agendas
Pick the roundtable discussions that you want to be part of. Simply choose your sessions and we’ll create a personalised agenda just for you
Private and Intimate Networking
Small group discussions, private meetings, networking drinks – however you choose to make those important connections our Strategy Meetings have the solution
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Hotel & Venue
Crowne Plaza London Docklands
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