10 Years of Chemical Biology at the Center for Biopharmaceuticals

DRA symposium

The symposium will feature eight current or former Center for Biopharmaceuticals (CBP) members as speakers, who now work in industry and academia. Their presentations will cover a wide variety of topics representing the broad research interests around chemical biology at the CBP and ILF, including biopharmaceuticals, medicinal chemistry, design & ligand recognition, protein-protein interaction, molecular structure, and evolution.

Programme

13:00 - 13:15 Welcome & introduction
Profs Christian A. Olsen, Kristian Strømgaard, and Stephan A. Pless
13:15 - 13:35

Development of small molecule G protein inhibitors
Prof. Xiao-Feng Xiong, Sun Yet-sen University, Guangzhou, China
13:35 - 13:55

Ion channels: a journey from biophysics to drug discovery
Dr. Federica Gasparri, Axxam, Milan, Italy
13:55 - 14:15

Purification-free synthesis and screening of thousands of cyclic peptides
Dr. Alexander Lund Nielsen, Novo Nordisk, Copenhagen, Denmark
14:15 - 14:35

Break
14:35 - 14:55

Pheet-first or head-Pherst into neuropeptide binding sites
Assoc. Prof. Timothy Lynagh, University of Bergen, Norway
14:55 - 15:15

Confounding factors in targeted degradation of short-lived proteins
Dr. Nina Braun, Boehringer Ingelheim, Vienna, Austria
15:15 - 15:35

Mapping, Visualization & Targeting of Protein-Protein interactions using peptide arrays
Assoc. Prof. Hans Maric, University of Würzburg, Germany
15:35 - 15:55 Break
15:55 - 16:15

How a transporter-channel protein-protein interaction influences cellular excitability
Assist. Prof. Mette Poulsen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
16:15 - 16:35

Unlocking Selectivity: Novel Approaches for Targeting Histone Deacetylases
Dr. Daniela Dankova, Astra Zeneca, Gothenburg, Sweden
16:35

Concluding remarks

The symposium is organized on behalf of the graduate programme in pharmaceutical sciences, Drug Research Academy, by Profs Christian A. Olsen, Kristian Strømgaard, and Stephan A. Pless, Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen.

The symposium is free of charge and open for attendance by all interested parties. It is not necessary to pre-register.