Drug discovery: Leveraging academic impact through novel fragments
Tue 05 Feb 2013 – 3M Buckley Innovation Centre, Huddersfield
Given the UK strength in chemical synthesis, a chemical consortium focused upon the implementation of powerful synthetic methods would be perfectly placed to design and deliver novel three-dimensional chemical libraries for fragment screening to complement existing fragment libraries. The consortium would also be able to contribute to the generation of useful chemical start points for a broad range of target therapeutic classes.
In collaboration with the ‘Dial-a-Molecule’ EPSRC Grand Challenge Network and SMSDrug.net, on 5 February 2013 the 3D Fragment Consortium will host a workshop meeting at which the opportunities and benefits for academic synthetic chemists will be presented. In particular, the workshop will discuss:
- how class-leading academic synthesis can be used in a drug discovery context
- the key features of fragment libraries, and their relevance to cutting-edge research groups
- the tools available to enable synthetic chemists to make contributions to the drug discovery process
- constructing an inclusive network of med chem-facing academic chemists
- funding possibilities
- how to deal with IP issues
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