Who Will be there

2023 SPEAKERS

Adam Gilbert

Amit Choudhary

Beth Hoffman

Brian Albarran

Charly Chahwan

Charles Lin

Courtney Havens

Danette Daniels, Ph.D.
Danette received her B.A. from Columbia University, Ph.D. in Biophysics from Yale University, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University School of Medicine studying Wnt signaling pathway. She has been at Promega Corporation for 15 years and is currently an R&D Group Leader of Functional Proteomics. She leads a team developing technologies and performing research to understand dynamic intracellular interactions within the focus areas of epigenetics, targeted protein degradation, and drug discovery.

Daniel Nomura
Dan Nomura is a professor in the Departments of Chemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology, and Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also an adjunct professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at UCSF. He is also the director of the Novartis-Berkeley Center for Proteomics and Chemistry Technologies. Dr. Nomura is also an editor for Cell Chemical Biology and Current Protocols in Chemical Biology. He earned his B.A. in Molecular and Cell Biology and Ph.D. in Molecular Toxicology with Professor John Casida at UC Berkeley and was a postdoctoral fellow at The Scripps Research Institute in chemical physiology with Professor Ben Cravatt before returning to UC Berkeley as a faculty member in 2011. Among his honors are selection as a Searle Scholar, American Cancer Society Research Scholar Award, the Department of Defense Breakthroughs Award, and the Mark Foundation for Cancer Research INSPIRE award. Research in the Nomura Research Group is focused on reimagining druggability using chemoproteomic platforms to discover new disease therapies.

Gisele Nishiguchi

Gwenn Hansen

Fredrik Rahm

Ian Churcher

Jean Bernatchez

Jean-Christophe Harmange

Jing Li

Jing Liu

Jose Perez

Katelyn Cassidy

Kevin Foley

Kumar Suresh

Matthias Brand

Nan Ji

Niyi Fadeyi

Patrick Gunning

Peter Park

Saki Ichikawa

Sam Lievens

Scott Kanner

Simon Bailey
As Head of Drug Discovery at Plexium, Simon oversees the company’s efforts to identify novel protein degrader drugs that address significant unmet medical needs. Simon joined Plexium in 2019 bringing more than 25 years’ experience of medicinal chemistry and small molecule drug discovery leadership experience. From 1995-2015, Simon held positions of increasing responsibility at Pfizer including leading the Diabetes and Oncology Medicinal Chemistry Departments.

Ted Suh

Yong Cang
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Previous Partners
Previous Platinum Partner
Pelago Bioscience AB
Website: https://www.pelagobio.com/
Pelago Bioscience AB established in 2013 provides and develops the patented Cellular Thermal Shift Assay (CETSA®) for use in determination and quantification of drug–target interactions, to accelerate drug discovery and diagnostics development. CETSA® provides a quantitative measure of target engagement and the biophysical readout of affinity, and adds real value to existing efficacy assays. We deliver complete target engagement hit confirmation data sets, develop and validate assays for use in screening cascades, and profile candidate drugs based on the CETSA® method, tailored to the project need.
Previous Gold Sponsor
Eurofins Discovery
Website: www.eurofinsdiscovery.com
Eurofins Discovery accelerates the critical drug discovery endeavor for our global clients through decades of experience and flexible solutions. We provide comprehensive services from assay-ready development to DiscoveryOne™ integrated programs; chemistry, in vitro safety and efficacy phenotypic assays, ADME-tox and pre-clinical pharmacology. Whether you require outsourcing needs or perform research in-house, Eurofins Discovery Services and Eurofins DiscoverX® product solutions empowers R&D through IND.
Previous Silver Sponsor
Collaborative Drug Discovery
Website: www.collaborativedrug.com
Collaborative Drug Discovery (CDD) provides an intuitive software suite extensively used by creative biologists and chemists working in academic, biotechnology and pharmaceutical settings. Their flagship product, CDD Vault, enables researchers to intuitively organize and analyze both biological and chemical data, and to collaborate with partners through a straightforward web interface. CDD helps scientists register entities, track inventory, manage assay data, capture experiments, calculate Structure-Activity Relationships (SAR), and mine their data for drug candidates. CDD was founded in 2004 and presently serves thousands of researchers doing drug discovery all around the world.
Promega
Website: https://www.promega.com
Promega is committed to excellence in technologies and compound profiling services to assess key processes in Targeted Protein Degradation and Induced Proximity mechanisms. From assessing protein degradation in real time, to understanding compound binding and permeability, to ternary complex formation and more. Our CRIPSR HiBiT content covers hundreds of pre-built targets. Novel software analysis tools allow for the determination of target protein degradation rates, DC50 potency values, recovery profiles and more.
X-Chem
Website: https://www.x-chemrx.com/
X-Chem is a leader in small molecule drug discovery services for pharmaceutical and biotech companies. As pioneers of DNA-encoded chemical library (DEL) technology, the company leverages its market-leading DEL platform to discover novel small molecule leads against challenging, high-value therapeutic targets. As experts in medicinal chemistry, X-Chem can take those leads and progress them to clinical candidates with unmatched speed. Throughout the process, X-Chem’s advanced proprietary artificial intelligence (AI) technology accelerates all steps in the process. X-Chem also provides libraries, reagents and informatic tools to allow DEL operators to get the most of their DEL platform. X-Chem empowers its partners to effectively build drug pipelines from target to clinical candidate, enhanced with AI.
Previous Exhibitors
NanoImaging Services
Website: https://www.nanoimagingservices.com/
Visualizing biomolecular structures through cryo-EM studies can provide insight into multiple stages of the drug development process, from target identification through manufacturing. As the industry leader in cryo-EM, with more cryo-EM scientists and TEM microscopes than any service provider in North America, NanoImaging Services is a CRO specializing in harnessing the power of cryo-EM to enable structure based drug design of a variety of targets including PROTAC and molecular glue based complexes.
Nanome.AI
Website: https://nanome.ai/
Nanome is changing how we understand, design, and interact with science. Nanome’s immersive virtual workspaces allow users to visualize, modify, and simulate chemical compounds, proteins, and nucleic acids to help improve the Drug Discovery process.
Our virtual reality platform facilitates communication of structural data in drug discovery which has proved beneficial to pharmaceutical and biotech companies across the globe. This is especially helpful for organizations that are interested in improving their cross-site collaboration.
OmicScouts
Website: https://www.omicscouts.com/en/
OmicScouts is a world-leading chemical proteomics company and supports drug discovery as a service for pharmaceutical and biotech companies:
ProteomeScout – quantification of 6-11.000 proteins from treated and control samples;
TurnoverScout - longitudinal quantitative proteome turnover determination, supporting optimization of target modulation therapies (degraders, PROTACs, siRNA, RNAi);
CysScout- cysteine reactive proteome profiling of covalent compounds, site identification and occupancy quantification;
SideScout - label free, concentration-dependent target deconvolution at physiological temperature;
TargetScout - affinity based target identification, target engagement, and target selectivity;
SignallingScout - elucidating proteome -wide compound-induced signaling changes;
KinomeScout – compoundbinding quantification on up to 310 human kinases under near physiological conditions;
Proteome Sciences
Website: https://www.proteomics.com/
Proteome Sciences is a Contract Research Organisation (CRO) specialising in the analysis of proteins detected by Mass Spectrometry. We offer various Discovery and Targeted Services to characterise proteins and their associated post translational modifications.
By using LC-MS2, LC-MS3, SysQuant® and TMTcalibratorTM methodologies on samples that originate from tissue to biological fluids, we can detect over 8,000 proteins per sample. With our proprietary bioinformatics software, these can be trimmed down to some tens of proteins that are either up-, or down-regulated in either disease progression or drug treatment.
Using our unique TMTpro isobaric mass tags, we can run up to 15 samples per single experiment thereby allowing relative protein quantification between samples. By using a reference channel, multiple experiments can be performed sequentially, thereby allowing 30 to 100+ samples to be characterized in one project. Sensitivity is equivalent to conventional ELISA in many cases.
In the clinical area, we offer single or multiplexed protein measurements on customer selected proteins either with or without a PTM. Proteins selected can be either known previously, or more often detected above via our Discovery Services. We can measure up to 100 multiplex proteins per sample in a GCLP accredited Targeted Mass Spectrometric assay using clinically relevant samples such as plasma and CSF. Again, sensitivity is equivalent to conventional ELISA in many cases.
Previous Media Partners
Pharma Journalist
Website: http://www.pharmajournalist.com
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