RECENT TRENDS IN MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY AND ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES - JOINT WITH BMCS
Wednesday 2nd December 2026
Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BQ, UK  

OVERVIEW

On the 2nd December 2026, the Society for Medicines Research and the Biological and Medicinal Chemistry Sector of the Royal Society of Chemistry will be jointly hosting a 1-day meeting in London on Recent Trends in Medicinal Chemistry and Enabling Technologies. The programme will cover a combination of medicinal chemistry, drug discovery enabling technologies and chemical biology.

With confirmed speakers from AstraZeneca, Domainex, GSK, Molecular Horizon, OpenADMET, Pharmaron, Sygnature Discovery and the University of Leiden, the meeting will reflect the breadth of work taking place to advance our understanding and prosecution of targets, technologies and lead series to underpin medicines research. .

Confirmed speakers are:

• Dr Pat Walters, Chief Scientist, OpenADMET
  OpenADMET: Accelerating Drug Discovery Through Open Data, Rigorous Benchmarking, and Community Blind Challenges
• Dr James Smith, Associate Director, AstraZeneca
  Title TBC
• Dr Sam Rowe, Principal Scientist, Chemical Biology, GSK
  Direct-to-Biology for WRN-Targeted Covalent Hit Identification and Optimisation
• Dr Andrew Ratcliffe, Chief Scientific Officer, Domainex
  Advances in Targeting Membrane-Bound Proteins for Drug Discovery
• Dr Jenny Borthwick, Director Medicinal Chemistry, Pharmaron
  Title TBC
• Dr Stephan Hacker, Assistant Professor, Leiden University
  Title TBC  
• Dr Lorna Duffy, Associate Director, Sygnature Discovery
  Title TBC  
• Dr Lydia Siragusa, Senior Scientist, Molecular Horizon
  Exploring Ligandable Space Through Pocketome Annotation: Applications in Target Discovery

Sponsorship:
Sponsorship opportunities are available for this event.
Click here to download the Sponsorship Opportunities flyer and booking form.

Fees:

£125.00		SMR member rate
£125.00		BMCS member rate (using code - see below)
£190.00		Non-member rate

BMCS Members:
BMCS Members, who are not SMR Members, when registering should use the voucher code provided to them by the BMCS.

Registration opening soon

Student Bursaries:
Student bursaries are available for this event. To apply, please email secretariat@smr.org.uk.