past smr meetings
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2019
14 March   Experimental and computational methods for enabling structure-based drug discovery
2018
6 December   Trends in Medicinal Chemistry
26 September   The Best of Both Worlds : Innovation, Collaboration and Synergy between CROs and their Client Partners
7 June   Current Trends in Drug Discovery - Young Scientists and Tomorrow's Medicines
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8 March   Targeting the immune system in disease
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2017
8 December   Recent Trends and Technologies
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15 June   Innovative partnerships for medicines research: how is the landscape evolving?
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9 March   Gene therapy: right here, right now
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2016
1 December   Recent Disclosures of Clinical Candidates and SMR Award Lecture
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13 October   Rare Diseases, Extraordinary Aspirations
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10 June   Alzheimer's Disease Therapeutics - are we making progress towards a disease modifying treatment for patients?
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17 March   New Developments in Translational Technologies
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2015    
3 December   Trends in Medicinal Chemistry
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8 October   Biotherapeutics - Innovative Future Medicines
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5 June   Opportunities and Challenges in Cancer R&D
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19 March   SMR Effective and Emerging Strategies for Utilising Structure in Drug Discovery
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2014
4 December   Recent Disclosures of Clinical Candidates and SMR Award Lecture
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2 October   Personalised Medicines - are we there yet?
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5 June   Inflammation Research: New Horizons and Translational Challenges
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13 March   Reducing Attrition through Early Assessment of Drug Safety
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2013    
12 December   From Targets to candidates: Emerging Strategies in Drug Discovery
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3 October   Kinases: New Horizons
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20 June  Partnerships: Future Models for Drug Discovery
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14 March   Therapeutic Opportunities in Infectious Diseases
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2012    
5 December   Recent Disclosures of Clinical Candidates (SMR Award Lecture)
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4 October   The importance of (Bio) Pharmaceutical properties in Successful Drug Design
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14 June   Respiratory drug discovery, current developments and future challenges
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16 March   Alzheimer's disease therapeutics - are we winning or losing?
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2011    
8 December   Recent Disclosures of Clinical Candidates
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29 September   Oncology
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23 June   New Perspectives on Transporters in Drug Discovery and Development: ADME and Beyond
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24 March   Trends in Pain Research
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2010    
9 December   Trends in Medicinal Chemistry
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22 September   Epigenetics
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24 June   Kinase Inhibitors from Early Research to Clinic
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11 March   Regenerative Medicine: A New Frontier for Therapeutic Intervention
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2009    
10 December   SMR Award Meeting: Recent Disclosures of Clinical Candidates
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24 September   Approaches to Assessing Drug Safety in the Discovery Phase
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11 June   Optimising drugs for local delivery
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12 March   Current & future perspectives in psychiatric drug discovery
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2008    
9 December   Medicines Research: current trends and case histories
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25 September   Obesity and its Treatment
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12 June   Approaches to Lead Generation
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6 March   Biotherapeutics
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2007    
6 December   Recent Disclosures of Clinical Candidates
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11 September   Emerging Therapies in Respiratory Disease
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6 June   Neurodegenerative disorders and their treatment
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8 March   Addressing the Innovation Gap in Pharmaceutical R&D
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2006
11 December   40th Anniversary Meeting and 2nd Annual UK Biotechnology Company Showcase
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21 September   Therapeutic Approach Towards the Treatment of Gastrointestinal Disorders
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15 June Translational Sciences - Turning Drug-like Molecules into Medicines
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9 March   Cancer Treatments for the New Millennium
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2005    
11 March Chemical Genetics and Genomics: What are they and are they helping drug discovery?
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17 June Therapeutics Strategies for Tissue Regeneration
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30 September Challenges Facing Drug Discovery in Vascular Disease
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8 December Recent Disclosures of Clinical Drug Candidates
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2004
11 March Chemokines and Drug Discovery
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17 June Type II Diabetes: Mechanisms and Emerging Therapeutic Targets
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23 September CNS Drug Discovery: Challenges and Solutions
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2 December Trends in Medicinal Chemistry
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2003
13 March   Is there a best strategy for Drug Discovery?
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26 June Pharmacology for Neuropathic pain: progress and prospects
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18 September   Trends in early drug safety
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4 December Case Histories in Drug Discoveries and Design
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2002
7 March   Orphan G-Protein coupled receptors
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27 June New Horizons in Drug Metabolism Pharmacokinetics and Drug Discovery
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19 September   Proteomics: New Developments in target discovery
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5 December Trends in Medicinal Chemistry
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2001
14 March   Smoking-related Lung Disease (COPD): Prospects for New Therapy
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5 July Improving medicines through drug delivery 
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27 September   The role of sodium channels in disease: Drug news Perspect
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6 December   Case histories in Drug Discovery and Design
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2000
2 March   Functional Genomics
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13 July The Role of Mitochondria in Apoptosis
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28 September   Conquering Antibacterial Resistance
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30 November Trends in Medicinal Chemistry
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1999
25 March   Protein Kinases: Therapeutic Opportunities
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9 July Angiogenesis
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16 September   Nuclear Receptors
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2 December Case Histories & SMR Award Lecture
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1998
26 March   Anti-Obesity Drugs
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9 July Stroke: Therapeutic Opportunities 
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22 September   Therapeutic Aspects of Cell Adhesion 
 
3 December Trends in Medicinal Chemistry
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1997
17 April   New Frontiers in the Treatment of Epilepsy 
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10 July Controlling Pain in the 21st Century 
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18 September   Alzheimer's Disease
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4 December Case Histories & SMR Award Lecture 
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1996
21 March   New Technologies in Drug Discovery
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11 July Cancer Therapy - the way forward
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26 September   Trends in Medicinal Chemistry 
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12 December Endothelins: New Therapeutic Opportunities