Innovative Symposium on Open-Source Drug Discovery Part of the 240th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society
Press Release The ACS Division of Business Development and Management (BMGT) is sponsoring a full day symposium on Open-Source Drug Discovery as part of the 240th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society. Speakers include pioneers of the open-source drug discovery movement who will discuss their first-hand experiences in creating the tools and platforms that enable the online collaboration of thousands of scientists working to economically discover and develop much needed drugs for the treatment of rare and neglected diseases. Organized by Richard Harper of Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) and Bernard Munos of Eli Lilly, co-sponsored by the ACS Division of Medicinal Chemistry and financially sponsored by Eli Lilly and Company, the OSDD symposium provides an opportunity for attendees to learn about the present and future of open-source innovation and hear international practitioners from academia and industry describe their approaches to setting up and operating open- source drug R&D programs. Scheduled for Monday, August 23, 2010 in Room 254A/B of the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center, the morning session begins at 8:30 with opening remarks by Harper and Munos followed by presentations from Dr. Samir Brahmachari of India’s Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)i, Dr. Christopher Austin from the NIH Chemical Genomics Center and Dr. Solomon Nwaka of the World Health Organization. After a short intermission, the session will continue with talks by Dr. F. Javier Gamo of GlaxoSmithKline and Dr. Alpheus Bingham from InnoCentive, and end with a panel discussion. Harper and Munos will also open the afternoon session beginning at 1:30. Speakers will include Munos, Dr. Zakir Thomas begin_of_the_skype_highlighting end_of_the_skype_highlighting from the Open Source Drug Discovery program with CSIR, Dr. Marta Piñeiro- Núñez of Eli Lilly and Company, Dr. William Scott from IUPUI and Dr. Sean Ekins of Collaborative Drug Discovery. A final panel discussion will end the symposium. Some of the topics to be covered by these leading experts in open- source drug discovery technology include activities at the NIH to develop innovative and collaborative later stage drug development programs, efforts by the WHO to foster novel approaches for research in neglected diseases, the sharing by GSK of data on over 13,500 potential anti-malarial compounds, India’s OSDD program activities involving 3000 people in 74 countries, Lilly’s phenotypic drug discovery initiative (PD2), distributed drug discovery and collaborative drug discovery and the various ways in which OSDD can make it possible for global partnerships across academia, government and industry to reduce the cost of drug development and make novel treatments available for the very poor. Directly following the symposium, there will be a reception and book signing with Roger F. Jones, author of The Future of the Chemical Industry, an ACS Symposium Series publication and his fourth and latest book on industrial, technical, economic and managerial issues in the chemical industry. “We are very excited to be sponsors of this unique event at the National ACS meeting,” states Dr Alan D. Palkowitz, Ph.D., Vice President, Discovery Chemistry Research & Technologies, Eli Lilly and Company. “The current pharmaceutical R&D model is being redesigned in part by this new approach, which is also channeling drug research into neglected and rare diseases. The speaker line-up represents people in organizations involved at the forefront of this movement. This symposium provides a forum for discussion of these early initiatives and we hope the audience will be inspired to help build on this foundation.” -- http://www.cbclickbank.com/bioinformatics/company.htm List of the biotech company and address. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Biofriend Forum http://www.biofriend.info/ ============================================= Meet Biofriend India Team Manager at Linkedin http://in.linkedin.com/in/satishchauk
