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EXPERIMENTAL AND IN SILICO APPROACHES TO TARGET SELECTION AND TRACTABILITY FOR DRUG DISCOVERY

Joint meeting with the SCI

Monday 21st March 2022
The Francis Crick Institute, 1 Midland Road, London NW1 1AT
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PROGRAMME - all times are UK time (GMT)

09.00 - 10.00 Arrival, registration and coffee
10.00 - 10.30 Welcome and introduction -
Mike Hann, GSK, UK
Targeted covalent inhibitors and molecular superglues
Lyn Jones, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, USA
 
Session 1 - Part 1: Sources of target hypotheses for drug discovery
10.30 - 11.00 The utility of human genetics, clinical samples and collaboration in drug discovery for IPF
Jessica Eley, GSK, Stevenage, UK
11.00 - 11.30 Using Systems Biology to Discover Novel Targets for Neurological Diseases
Victor Neduva, MSD, London, UK
 
11.30 - 12.00 Coffee break
 
Session 1 - Part 2: Sources of target hypotheses for drug discovery
12.00 - 12.30 Chemogenomic screening to identify novel mechanisms which selectively kill HIV infected cells
Deb Rothman, Merck, USA
12.30 - 13.00 Single cell atlases of the gut to discover and prioritise druggable targets
Rasa Elmentaite, Teichmann Group, University of Cambridge, UK
 
13.00 - 14.00 Lunch break
 
Session 2: Practicalities of assessing target intervention opportunities
14.00 - 14.30 In silico target identification and prioritisation in the era of new drug modalities
Andrew Leach, EBI, Cambridge, UK
14.30 - 15.00 Adapting to a changing portfolio landscape: an industry perspective of experimental approaches to assess target tractability and hit finding
Ian Storer, AZ, Cambridge, UK
15.00 - 15.30 Affinity Selection Mass Spectrometry for Experimental Tractability Assessment
Joe Kozole, GSK, Philadelphia, USA
15.30 - 16.00 Novel Therapeutic Targets for Treatment of Neurodegeneration
Paul Brennan, University of Oxford, UK 
 
16.00 Closing comments and meeting close
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