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Current Challenges In Biomolecular Screening



TECHNICAL PROGRAM


  Nov. 13-14, 2003
  Palacio de Congresos
  de Madrid
  Madrid, Spain



Session 1:
Drug Discovery: An Overview of a Continuously Changing Process


An Overview Of Modern Drug Discovery: How HTS Will Improve the Productivity of the Pharmaceutical Industry
Bob Hertzberg - GlaxoSmithKline, USA

Drugs From the Sea: A Case Study
- PharmaMar, Spain

High-Throughput Screening and Cellular Biology at Serono
Karen Yeow - Serono Pharmaceutical Research Institute, Switzerland

Session 2:
Application of High Throughput Technologies in Drug Discovery


Current HTS Approaches to Drug Discovery
Robert Campbell - Eli Lilly & Co, USA

Asset: Industrial Automation for uHTS
Juan Antonio Mostacero - GlaxoSmithKline, Spain

Innovative HTS Technologies: Nano-Screening and Affinity-Selection
Lorenz Mayr - Novartis Pharmaceuticals, Switzerland

Kinase Inhibitors: Comparison of a Bioluminescent and a Microfluidic Assay Format
Aimo Kannt - Aventis, Germany

High Throughput Techniques for Measurement of Physiochemical Properties of Drugs to Aid the Prediction of their ADME Characteristics
John Comer - Sirius Analytical Instruments Ltd., UK

Session 3:
Computational Tools to Drive Drug Discovery


Problems, Prospects and Solutions for Global Informatics in the Drug Discovery Business
Bryn Roberts - AstraZeneca, UK

Challenges in Drug Design
Modesto Orozco - Institut de Recerca Biomèdica, University of Barcelona, Spain

Automated Routine Quality Control in High-Throughput Screening Drives Improvements in Design Of Screening Experiments To Provide a Basis For Biological and Chemical Compound Profiling
Stephan Heyse - GeneData AG, Switzerland

Session 4:
The Role of Academia in Target Selection and Validation


Manipulating the Mouse Genome: A New Generation of Animal Models for Oncology Drug Discovery
Mariano Barbacid - Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas (CNIO) Spain

Study Of Cellular Protein: Targets For Modification By Cyclopentenone Prostaglandins
Dolores Pérez-Sala - Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas., Spain

Metabolic Footprinting and Genetic Programming: A High Throughput, High Information Approach to Mutant Characterization, Mode of Action and Functional Genomics
Douglas B. Kell - UMIST, UK

MRC Technology's Assay Development Group: Converting Basic Science into New Targets for HTS
Catherine A. Kettleborough - MRC Technology, UK

High Throughput Proteomics in the Validation of Therapeutic Targets
José María Mato - University of Navarra, Spain

Session 5:
From Proteins to Cells: Accelerating Cell Biology


Development and Utilization of the acCellerator™ Cell Culturing System Within the Drug Discovery Pipeline
Gary Allenby - AstraZeneca, UK

Accelerating Endosomes: High Content Screening Assays of Endocytosis
Neil Emans - Institute for Molecular Biotechnology, Aachen University, Germany

Solutions for the Challenges in High-throughput Cell Based Screening
Johan Geysen - Union Biometrica N.V., Belgium

Modulation of Protein Translocation as an Alternative to Inhibition of Catalytic Activity: Selective Hits from Redistribution™-Based High Throughput Screening
Steven Butcher - BioImage CSO, Denmark

New Cellular Assay Formats For Miniaturized HTS
Julianwölcke - Evotec Oai, Germany

Session 6:
Sources of Chemical Diversity: What Goes Through the Screen?


Compound Management: Optimizing quality and Accessibility of the Screening Library
Pierre Acklin - Novartis Pharma AG, Switzerland

The "Latent Hit" Concept: A Medicinal Chemistry Approach to Hit Generation
Jordi Mestres - Municipal Institute of Medical Research and University Pompeu Fabra, Spain

Marrying Targets and Compounds
Ricardo Macarron - GlaxoSmithKline, USA

A New Model for Utilizing Chemical Diversity from Natural Products
Anthony Buss - Merlion, Singapore


 

Spanish Society of Biotechnology
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The Society for Biomolecular Screening
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Danbury, CT 06811 USA
Tel. +1 203 743 1336
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