Thematic meeting: Excellence in Molecular Design

Thank you all for your participation !
This One-Day thematic meeting, co-organized by the Société de Chimie Thérapeutique (SCT), Evotec and Institut Pasteur, has covered outstanding innovation and applied state-of-the-art molecular design contributing to advance drug discovery boundaries. Selected themes of the Symposium were dedicated to “breakthrough” discoveries or innovative technologies/methods and included the application of machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI).
Date & Location
- Tuesday , 14th March 2023. 9 am - 5 pm
- Amphitheater Duclaux, Institut Pasteur, 28 Rue du Docteur Roux, 75015 Paris, France
8:40 Welcome at Amphitheater Duclaux
- 9:10 am Welcome addresses
Dr Jean-Yves Ortholand - President of the French Society for Medicinal Chemistry
Dr Gilbert Lassalle - SVP Head of Medicinal Chemistry France, Evotec
Dr Olivier Sperandio - Group Leader & Head of the iPPI-DB initiative, Institut Pasteur
- 9:30 am Dr Christoph Grebner - Sanofi, Frankfurt, Germany
“Artificial intelligence and explainability in molecular design”
- 10:00 am Dr Gilles Labesse - University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France
“Structure-Based and Integrative Design of B-Raf Inhibitors Devoid of Deleterious PXR Binding”
- 10:30 am Coffee break and meet the partners/ participants at Centre François Jacob
- 11:15 am Dr Fredrik Zetterberg – Galecto, Inc., Göteborg, Sweden
“Discovery of GB1211, the first orally available galectin-3 inhibitor to advance into clinical development as a potential treatment for cancer and fibrosis indications”
- 11:45 am Andreas Luttens - 2022 winner of the Evotec Prize - University of Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden
“Discovery of Enzyme Inhibitors through Virtual Screening of Vast Chemical Space”
- 12:15 pm Lunch and meet the partners/ participants at Centre François Jacob
- 1:45 pm Dr Quentin Perron, Co-founder & CSO - Iktos, Paris, France
“DockAI: Efficient Exploration of ultra-large chemical spaces using Active Learning”
- 2:00 pm Dr Raquel Rodriguez Perez - Novartis, Bale, Switzerland
“Machine learning-based predictions of ADME properties in pharmaceutical industry”
- 2:30 pm Dr Stefania Monteleone - Evotec, Abingdon, United Kingdom
“FMO-guided Identification of PPI Hotspots and Modulators”
- 3:00 pm Coffee break and meet the partners/ participants at Centre François Jacob
- 3:45 pm Dr Christophe Zimmer/Dr Bogdan Ciambur - Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
“Deep learning and imaging for antibiotic drug discovery”
- 4:30 pm Dr Merveille Eguida - University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
“Automated target-focused library design using subpocket similarity combined with generative chemistry”
Organizing committee
EVOTEC Gilbert Lassalle Christophe Boldron |
SCT Jean-Yves Ortholand Rebecca Deprez-Poulain |
INSTITUT PASTEUR Olivier Sperandio Emilie Boutet |
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