Establishing an Academic User Network for ChEMBL: Seminar/Workshop Tour 8-18th April 2013

Presentation by Dr Louisa Bellis (European Bioinformatics Institute), supported by SMSdrug.net
SMSdrug.net is supporting a UK wide tour of University Chemistry departments by Louisa Bellis(EBI-EMBL) to showcase the ChEMBL database.
ChEMBL  is a database of over 1 million bioactive drug-like small molecules and contains 2-D structures, calculated properties (e.g. logP, Molecular Weight, Lipinski Parameters, etc.) and abstracted bioactivities (e.g. binding constants, pharmacology and ADMET data). It is an open-access, free resource that is currently used world-wide to aid in drug discovery.
To find out more please contact ljbellis@ebi.ac.uk   

Dates and venues:

Monday 8th April 2013    University of Edinburgh
Tuesday 9th April 2013    University of Strathclyde
Wednesday 10th April 2013    Durham University & Newcastle University
Thursday 11th April 2013    University of Bradford & University of Sheffield
Friday 12th April 2013    University of Birmingham
Monday 15th April 2013    University of Nottingham & University of Warwick
Tuesday 16th April 2013    University of Bath & Cardiff University
Wednesday 17th April 2013    University of Southampton
Thursday 18th April 2013    University of Sussex

Newly Confirmed: Friday 19th April 2013 University of Oxford

 If you would like a copy of the slides for the the tour please contact helen.feilden@strath.ac.uk

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

For further information or to register for this event please click here

Dr Neil Carragher from Edinburgh Cancer Research UK centre will be visiting us on 16th January hosted by RICAS, SMSdrug.net and WestChem, he will be delivering a talk at 1.pm on January 16th in SIPBS HW113 and all are welcome.

Neil will be delivering his presentation entitled:

“Imaging and Pathway Profiling: Advancing cancer drug discovery towards improved clinical efficacy”

For further information please contact helen.feilden@strath.ac.uk