Following the opening course in 2014, and very successful courses in 2015 and 2016 the registration is now open for the 4^th Prague Summer School "Advances in Drug Discovery", focusing on the whole process from discovery to drug marketing.

The Summer School is organized by the University of Chemistry and Technology Prague and Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the CAS.

As in 2016 the attendants are welcome to present their research in the form of poster presentation.

The Summer School is intended mainly for PhD students and postdocs. Expert speakers from major international pharma and biotech companies and academia will cover these broad areas:

• Target discovery
• General chemical approaches – medicinal chemistry
• Structure and In silico based drug design
• Lead structure characterization
• Precinical and clinical development
• Principles and examples of commercial drug development cycleS
• Specific section devoted to personalized medicine and related diagnostic.

 
SELECTED SPEAKERS

• James Douglas Engel
  University of Michigan
  Developing Therapeutics for the Worlds most Common Inherited Genetic Disease
   
• Thomas Ullrich
  Novartis, Institutes for Biomedical Research
  Local Drug Delivery to Joints and Tendon
   
• Petr Váchal
  MSD
  Topic: Medicinal Chemistry Enabled by Novel, Transformational Capabilities
   
• Sergej Zezula
  ENAMINE
  Discovering Drugs with a CRO
   
• Stephan Bachmann
  Roche
  Catalysis as Key Technology in the Synthesis & Scale-up of APIs and their Intermediates
   
• Ernst Plefka
  Biocrates
  Pharmacometabolomics in Drug Development and Precision Medicine 

More Information & registration - website of the Prague Summer School

Early bird registration - before and on July 15, 2017

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