November
Medicinal Chemistry
Medicinal Chemistry&
Drug Discovery Biology
Drug Discovery BiologyStrategy Meeting West Coast USA 2025
Reinvigorating Productivity in Pharma & Biotech R&D Through Advanced Technologies and Innovative Techniques that Interrogate Activity and Mechanisms
Hard Rock Hotel San Diegodays
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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 the West Coast, 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.
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 Medicinal Chemistry Strategy Meeting.
Andrea Small-Howard
President GB Sciences
Bishnu Nayak
Senior Director/Site Head Neologics Bio
Igor Nasonkin
Co-founder & CEO Phythera Therapeutics
Jian Zuo
Co-founder and CEO Ting Therapeutics
Jun Yin
CTO BrainStorm Therapeutics
Klaus Simonsen
VP, Divisional Director Chemistry Lundbeck
Leo Kirkovsky
Director Clinical Assay Pfizer
Maya Gosztyla
Co-Founder, Lead Scientist, & COO Brainstorm Therapeutics
Mehran Moghaddam
CEO OROX Biosciences, Inc.
Robert T. Fremeau, Jr.
Founder, CEO/CSO, President Brainstorm Therapeutics, Inc.
Sudar Alagarsamy
Executive Director Program Management Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals
Tal Teitz
Co-founder Ting Therapeutics
Yoshi Satoh
Vice President of Chemistry Rev TherapeuticsOUR AGENDA
See Which Topics Are Up For Discussion
Roundtable Tracks
1-Andrea Small-Howard
President
GB Sciences
DMPK / ADME & TOXICOLOGY
CHEMICAL BIOLOGY, TARGETED PROTEIN DEGRADATION & UNDRUGGABLES
-Lalit K Sharma
Co-founder and CSO
NoraChem
TARGET IDENTIFICATION/ LEAD OPTIMIZATION
-Arun Thottumkara
Director of Chemistry, Enabling Science
Odyssey Therapeutics
STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN DRUG DISCOVERY
-Sanjeev Thohan
Scientific Advisory Board Member
Cogentis Therapeutics/ Phoenix Molecular Designs
INTEGRATED DRUG DISCOVERY
Roundtable Tracks
2-Frederick Chang
CEO
Kekulai
Sponsor
DMPK / ADME & TOXICOLOGY-Chris Stumpf
Senior Principal Product Marketing Manager for Drug Discovery Informatics Solutions
Revvity Signals
Sponsor
CHEMICAL BIOLOGY, TARGETED PROTEIN DEGRADATION & UNDRUGGABLES-Yuhua Ji
Vice President, Drug Discovery
Grace Science, LLC
Sponsor
TARGET IDENTIFICATION/ LEAD OPTIMIZATION-Dustin Cefalo, Ph.D
Vice President of Chemistry
FRONTIER
Sponsor
STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN DRUG DISCOVERYSponsor
INTEGRATED DRUG DISCOVERYRoundtable Tracks
3Leveraging Generative Modeling to Accelerate Drug Discovery
-Philip Cheung
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Refactor Biosciences
DMPK / ADME & TOXICOLOGY
Exploring the Current Formulation Challenges in Undruggable Leads
-Bryce Allen
Co-founder & CEO
Differentiated Therapeutics
CHEMICAL BIOLOGY, TARGETED PROTEIN DEGRADATION & UNDRUGGABLES
Utilizing Molecular Dynamics (MD) Simulations for Fragment-Based Drug Design: What are the Advantages and Disadvantages?
TARGET IDENTIFICATION/ LEAD OPTIMIZATION
Design And Synthesis In The Age Of AI And Biologic-Small Molecule Hybrids
-Thomas Brady
Senior Principal Scientist
Cidara Therapeutics
STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN DRUG DISCOVERY
Ideas About Automating Decision Making Steps To Accelerate Integrated Discovery
-Yoshi Satoh
Vice President of Chemistry
Rev Therapeutics
Roundtable Tracks
4Revolutionizing Drug Discovery: Unleashing AI and Generative Modeling for Molecular Innovation.
-Prasun Mishra
CEO, Founder / CEO, Founding President
r, Agility Pharmaceuticals / American Association for Precision Medicine (AAPM)
DMPK / ADME & TOXICOLOGY
Methods Of Computation And Cheminformatics For Chemical Synthesis And Hit Finding For Tough Targets And New Therapeutic Approaches
CHEMICAL BIOLOGY, TARGETED PROTEIN DEGRADATION & UNDRUGGABLES
Exploring challenges and triumphs using Integrated Drug Discovery in lead optimization, candidate selection and IND enabling studies.
-Brock Shireman
Vice President, Head of Chemistry
Rapport Therapeutics
TARGET IDENTIFICATION/ LEAD OPTIMIZATION
Pioneering Perspectives and Forward- thinking Approaches in Design and Synthesis for Drug Discovery
-Yoshi Satoh
Vice President of Chemistry
Rev Therapeutics
STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN DRUG DISCOVERY
Lessons Learned and Ongoing Effort: Drug Discovery Beyond the Rule of Five
-Yuhua Ji
Vice President, Drug Discovery
Grace Science, LLC
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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