The eCheminfo Autumn Community of Practice meeting (2007) will take
place the week of October 15 at Bryn Mawr College, Philadelphia to
discuss latest research applications, methods and best practices in drug
discovery informatics, design and modelling.
The following conference sessions will be held:
16 October: Virtual Screening, chaired by Christopher Austin (NIH) and
Ajay Jain (UCSF)
16 October: Structural Biology, chaired by Max Cummings (Tibotec
Pharmaceuticals)
17 October: Structure-based Drug Design, chaired by Jose Duca
(Schering-Plough)
17 October: Fragment-based Drug Discovery, chaired by Maria Kontoyianni
18-19 October: Predictive ADME/Toxicology, chaired by Tony Hopfinger
(University of New Mexico College of Pharmacy)
Additional workshop activity on virtual screening best practices,
knowledge management in R&D and advances in predictive ADME and
toxicology will also be held.
Conference speakers include:
Stephen Burley (SGX Pharmaceuticals), Georgia McGaughey (Merck), Charles
Lesburg (Schering-Plough), Rick Beger (FDA), Marc Nicklaus (NIH), Woody
Sherman (Schrodinger), Daniel Cheney (Bristol Myers Squibb), Paul Labute
(Chemical Computing Group), Ajay Jain (UCSF), Alan Cheng (Amgen), Tony
Hopfinger (University of New Mexico), Anthony Klon (Pharmacopeia Drug
Discovery), Artem Cherkasov (University of British Columbia), Dennis
Pelletier (Pfizer), Chaohong Sun (Abbott), Jose Duca (Schering-Plough),
Terry Stouch (JCAMD), Natasja Brooijmans (Wyeth), Gerard Kleywegt
(University of Uppsala), Vladimir Poroikov (Russian Academy of
Sciences), Christoph Helma (in silico toxicology), Ann Richard (EPA),
Judy Madden (Liverpool John Moores University), Julian Tirado-Rives
(Yale), Heather Carlson (University of Michigan), Joseph Tomaszewski
(NCI), Joseph Contrera (FDA), Christopher Austin (NIH), Jerome Hert
(UCSF), Renate Sekul (Graffinity), Gunther Stahl (Tripos), John W
Liebeschuetz (CCDC), Wilfried Langenaeker (Silicos), Zsolt Zsoldos
(SimBioSys), Paul Hawkins (OpenEye Scientific Software), François
Delfaud (MEDIT), Anatoly Ruvinsky (University of Kansas), Robin Taylor
(CCDC), Eric Jamois (Strand Life Sciences), David Gilmour (Tacit), Alex
Heiphetz (Delta L Training), Frank Guerino (TraverseIT), Salvatore
Alesci (Wyeth), Darius Dziuda (CCSU), Laszlo Boros (Sidmap) Fred Cohen
(Fast Track Systems), Alex Tropsha (UNC), Dimitris Agrafiotis, (Johnson
& Johnson), Carl Elkin (Schering-Plough)
Poster Session
We will be running poster sessions in the evenings at the meeting with
themes: knowledge management (Tuesday), drug design (Wednesday) and drug
development and ADME/Toxicology (Thursday). Please send your abstract
and biography of ca. 300-500 words each to eCheminfo -(at)-
douglasconnect.com for approval.
Program (pdf download):
http://barryhardy.blogs.com/cheminfostream/files/eChemProgramBrynMawr07-web2.PDF
More information at http://echeminfo.com/COMTY_conferences
best regards
Barry Hardy, PhD
eCheminfo Community of Practice
Douglas Connect
Switzerland
Tel: +41 61 851 0170
Blog: http://barryhardy.blogs.com/cheminfostream/
