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General Information
Baltimore
Baltimore, a city of surprises and unique experiences, is known as the 'charm of the Mid-Atlantic.' Located just
minutes from BWI airport or Penn Station, this delightful city is easily accessible from all points. The meeting
will be held at the Tremont Plaza Hotel on St. Paul; view the hotel details page for
more details.
Who should attend?
- scientific managers
- university PIs
- local technicians
- pharmas
- graduate students
- bench level scientists
- assistant professors.
- directors of academic screening labs
The target audience is scientists, and scientific managers looking to understand the avenues and opportunities
for engaging in life science research in the genomic era. The content is targeted at academic and small biotech
scientists interested in accessing shared facilities and resources in order to leverage their focused efforts.
It is also intended to provide vendors, government agencies, and facility coordinators with feedback on scientist
needs and to network with potential users. See the registration page for pricing information and online registration.
Meeting Benefits
Attendees gain an increased understanding of the advantages and challenges involved in screening in academia
while learning what their peers are doing in other centers, and in industry. Participants can continue the
dialogue and make connections during meal breaks and at the Networking Reception.
Exhibitors have the opportunity to gain new customers from diverse markets while also providing long-standing
customers the chance to reconnect.
Sponsors benefit from high-level visibility in a growing customer base.
The Program
This meeting will explore routes of academic impact in the life science industry. With an emphasis on chemical
genomics and academic successes in the field of human health, the program will examine existing strategies for
partnering with established pharma from the academic and pharma perspectives. The speakers will describe means
of access to and information about sophisticated drug-discovery tools now generally available to support individual
efforts to advance scientific understanding and address unmet world health needs (including new technologies,
government and academic screening centers, compound collections, directed parallel chemical synthesis, diverse
funding sources, data management).
Session topics include:
- Life sciences in the chemical genomic era
- Bridging industry and academia from the industry viewpoint
- Target biology for rare disorders
- Translation of academic drug discovery to the clinic
Round out your experience by attending one of three education workshops:
- Statistics for assay development and HTS Workshop
- Designing and curating compound collections (filtering compound aggregation, etc.)
- Alternative research funding sources/strategies
See who will be presenting by accessing the Preliminary Schedule.
Exhibit Hall
The exhibit hall is where you'll see firsthand the innovations of 30 companies and organizations in all aspects
of HTS and other drug-discovery sciences, and discover how these entities can assist you and your organization.
Visit the List of Exhibitors to plan who you will meet onsite.
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