Dinner Short Course Announced: Structure- and Dynamics-Based Design Strategies

April 4, 2014 - PRLog -- WHEN: Tuesday, May 20 | 6:00-9:00 pm
WHERE: Westin Boston Waterfront, Boston, MA

This course will reveal design strategies that led to drugs currently in the clinic and on the market. An emphasis will be made on the exploitation of the bioactive ligand conformations using combinations of NMR, X-ray, calculations and SAR. Rational design and the implications of other properties will be addressed which include atropisomer chirality, drug self-aggregation and ADMET.

Instructors:
Steven LaPlante, Ph.D., Founder & CEO, NMX Research & Solutions; Adjunct Professor, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS)
Chris Williams, Ph.D., Principal Scientist, Chemical Computing Group

Detailed Agenda:
6:00 Dinner Served
6:15 Strategies for Drug Design Starting from Peptides, HTS Hits and Small-Molecule Fragments
Steven LaPlante, Ph.D., Founder & CEO, NMX Research & Solutions; Adjunct Professor, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS)
7:15 Coffee Break
7:45 Designing Inhibitors with MOE Structure-Based Drug Design Tools
Chris Williams, Ph.D., Principal Scientist, Chemical Computing Group
8:45 Q&A with Speakers
9:00 Close of Course.

How to Register:
Web: https://chidb.com/register/2014/sbd/reg.asp
Call: 781-972-5400
Email: reg@healthtech.com

For details and to register for the SBDD conference, visit www.healthtech.com/structure-based-drug-design

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