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                     Advances and Progress
                        in Drug Design
    Monday 18th and Tuesday 19th February 2013, Copthorne Tara Hotel, London, UK

                                                         KEY SPEAKERS INCLUDE:
                                                         Andrew Leach                                   Friedemann Schmidt
                                                         Director of Computational Chemistry            Research Scientist
                                                         GSK                                            Sanofi

                                                         Jose Duca                                      Herman van Vlijmen
                                                         Head of CADD                                   Senior Director, Molecular Sciences
                                                         Novartis                                       Johnson & Johnson

                                                         John Mathias                                   Fabrizio Giordanetto
                                                         Head of Medicinal Chemistry                    Principal Scientist
                                                         Pfizer                                         AstraZeneca

                                                         Albert Pan,                                    Steven Charlton
                                                         Research Scientist                             Director, Receptor Biology
                                                         D E Shaw Research                              Novartis

                                                         Harald Mauser                                  Mathias Frech
                                                         Senior Scientist                               Director, Molecular Interactions
                                                         Roche                                          & Biophysics
                                                                                                        Merck


                                                         WHY ATTEND THIS EVENT:
                                                         •   Understand the latest developments in predictive in-silico off-target profiling
                                                         •   Debate the use of design-focused libraries for screening
                                                         •   Analyse CADD methods in protein therapeutic applications
                                                         •   Learn about water network perturbation in structure-based drug design
                                                         •   Evaluate subtype selectivity in G-protein-coupled receptors
                                                         •   Consider novel isoform inhibitors through structure-based fragment evolution
                                                         •   Discover the value of reverse pharmacology and learning from binding events
                                                         •   Network with and learn from senior industry representatives to discuss the latest in
                                                             computational chemogenics



                       PLUS TWO INTERACTIVE HALF-DAY POST-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS
                                 Wednesday 20th February 2013, Copthorne Tara, London, UK

      A: Fragment-Based Lead Discovery:                                     B: Binding kinetics for Drug Design: the
            Issues and Applications                                          Molecular and Structural Perspective
                       Workshop Leader:                                                        Workshop Leaders:
               Ben Davis, Research Fellow, Vernalis                      Xavier Barril, ICREA Research Professor, University of Barcelona
                       9.00am – 12.30pm                                                          1.30pm-5.00pm




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Day One | Monday 18th February 2013                                                                                                                            www.drug-d
8.30     Registration and Coffee                                                                         • Proteochemometric modeling is a computational technology that
                                                                                                           simultaneously uses activity data of multiple compounds on multiple
9.00     Chairman’s Opening Remarks                                                                        targets. This technology was applied to two large datasets of non-nucleoside
         John Mathias, Head of Medicinal Chemistry – Inflammation and                                      HIV reverse transcriptase inhibitors and resulted in improved predictions.
         Remodelling, Pfizer                                                                             • Water molecules are important in the binding of small molecules to protein
                                                                                                           targets. WaterMap calculations were used to analyze the SAR of Hepatitis C
                  Statistical Issues and Novel Approaches in CADD                                          NS5a inhibitors, and provided new insights into the activity of these
                                                                                                           compounds
9.10     Predictive in-silico off-target profiling in drug discovery                                     Herman Van Vlijmen, Senior Director, Molecular Science, Johnson & Johnson
         • Data-driven computational approaches to polypharmacology
         • Practical relevance to address compound selectivity and off-target related                                        Binding Site Solvent Analysis
           effects in lead discovery and optimization
         • Chances and limits: Domain of applicability                                          15.00    Water Placement and Water Site Free Energy: Extending the 3D-RISM
         • Multi-criteria compound optimization                                                          Solvent Analysis
         Friedemann Schmidt, Senior Scientist, Drug Design, Sanofi                                       • Placement of water molecules provides rationalisation of ambiguous
                                                                                                           SAR and focuses synthetic efforts
9.50     Computational Approaches to Polypharmacology and Mode-of-Action Analysis                        • Solution of modified 3D-RISM set of equations provides oxygen and
         • Current bioactivity databases are increasing in size, with the question                         hydrogen distributions which can be visualised three-dimensionally
           being how to exploit them                                                                     • The chemical potential of water is computed using 3D-RISM and is linked
         • Applications to Mode-of-Action analysis using in silico target prediction                       to the local affinity of protein sites towards water
           will be presented                                                                             • Here, we identify water site centres on which we can map the
         • A prospective application is ligand design taking bioactivity information                       thermodynamic properties of water, and examine the idea of using water
           against multiple receptors into account, for which experimental validation                      site free energy to infer water stability
           will be presented                                                                             Paul Labute, Chief Executive Officer, Chemical Computing
         Andreas Bender, Lecturer for Molecular Informatics, Cambridge University                        Group
10.30    Morning Refreshments                                                                   15.40    Afternoon Tea
11.00    Can a better appreciation of statistics help and improve the field of                  16.10    Improvements in docking performance with a new type of scoring
         Molecular Modeling?
                                                                                                         functions derived from molecular dynamics simulations of mixed solvents
         • What should a toolbox of simple statistical techniques look like for a
           molecular modeler?                                                                            • Theoretical approaches for the representation of the solvent effect on
         • Address the issue of method validation given the data typically available                       structure and reactivity
         • Describe some of the advances other fields have                                               • Discussion into the different methods available for analysis
           made using modern statistical methods                                                         • Challenges in computational approaches and how to overcome them
         Anthony Nicholls, CEO, OpenEye Software                                                         Xavier Barril, ICREA Research Professor, University of Barcelona

11.40    CADD applied to protein therapeutics                                                   16.50    Water network perturbation in Structure-Based Drug Design:
         • Application to Ab humanization                                                                How far can we go?
         • Application to Ab stabilization                                                               • Recent efforts in the computational evaluation of the thermodynamic
         • Application to affinity maturation                                                              properties of water molecules resulted in the development of new
         • Application to novel formats                                                                    promising in silico methods to evaluate the water role in ligand binding.
         Nicolas Baurin, Lead Generation Group Head, Sanofi                                              • GRID (Molecular Discovery), SZMAP (OpenEye), WaterMap (Schrödinger)
                                                                                                           & 3D-RISM (Chemical Computing Group) used to evaluate the role of the
12.20    Protein-Ligand Recognition And How Out-of-the-Box Thinking Impacts                                solvent in protein function and druggability, structure-activity relationship
         Drug Design                                                                                       elucidation, ligand free energy of binding prediction and ligand residence
         • Diverse targets offer different structural insights. The PDB is a rich                          time evaluation.
           source of Information                                                                         • Test case applying the methods to the Adenosine A2A receptor, and an
         • Unusual interactions can hint the next design steps (some of them are                           extension exploiting a recursive partitioning method (Random Forest)
           not so obvious)                                                                               Andrea Bortolato, Senior Computational Chemist, Heptares
         • Intrinsic flexibility footprints and their relevance towards allosteric inhibition
         Jose Duca, Head of Computer-Aided Drug Discovery, Novartis                             17.30    Chairman’s Closing Remarks

13.00    Networking Lunch                                                                       17.40    Close of Day One

14.20    Keynote Address: Drug Design for Antivirals: Structure - and                           17.45    The first day of the conference will be followed
         ligand-based approaches to deal with resistance                                                 by a Networking Drinks Reception hosted by
         • Structure-based design of HIV protease inhibitors has led to broadly                          Chemical Computing Group
            active compounds. The resistance profile is often difficult to understand
            and better predictive structural modeling is needed.                                19.15    End of Drinks Reception


                                                 Register online at www.drug-design.co.uk • Alternatively fax y
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                                  Chemical Computing Group provides state of the art drug discovery software. MOE delivers leading applications in protein modeling, combinatorial library
                                  design and focusing, QSAR, bio and chemoinformatics and structure based drug design. Platform independent application source code and an embedded
                                  programming language are also included, making MOE the most complete and flexible solution available. PSILO is also available for protein-ligand
                                  structural information storage and promulgation. For more information please visit www.chemcomp.com

                                  Intelligent Pharma offers different services in computational aided drug discovery. Our molecular modeling department carries out research projects to
                                  help your team design and develop new drugs using our computational chemistry expertise. Our specialists use Intelligent Pharma's technologies which
                                  include HELIOS, SELENE, MEDEA and CHIRON as well as other 3rd party software. www.intelligentpharma.com

                                  OpenEye Scientific Software is a privately held company headquartered in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with offices in Boston, Massachusetts, Strasbourg,
                                  France and Tokyo, Japan. It was founded in 1997 to develop large-scale software for drug design and molecular modeling with a primary focus on virtual
                                  screening and lead-hopping. The OpenEye software is designed for scientific rigor, speed, scalability and platform independence. Areas of expertise
                                  include cheminformatics, conformer generation, docking, shape comparison, electrostatics, crystallography and visualization. OpenEye makes most of
                                  its technology available as toolkits - programming libraries suitable for custom development. For further information on the company and its products,
                                  see www.eyesopen.com


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design.co.uk                                                                                              Day Two | Tuesday 19th February 2013

    8.30     Re-registration and Coffee                                                                           A Focus on Protein-Protein Interactions and GPCR
    9.00     Chairman's Opening Remarks                                                           14.00   Prolonged target binding and rebinding as mechanisms to enhance
             John Mathias, Head of Medicinal Chemistry – Inflammation and                                 duration of drug action
             Remodelling, Pfizer                                                                          • The influence of dissociation rate on drug efficacy and duration of action
                                                                                                          • Modelling restricted diffusion in micro-anatomic structures and introducing
                     Developments in Lead Discovery and Drug Design                                         the concept of drug rebinding and its influence on duration of action
                                                                                                          • Enhancing the likelihood of rebinding by optimising affinity for the local
    9.10     Using Structure-Based Drug Design to Identify Novel Oral & Inhaled p38                         target environment
             Inhibitors for COPD                                                                          • How these phenomena may complicate interpretation of the
             • Application of structure-based drug design in the identification and                         pharmacology of new drugs
               optimization of a platform of oral & inhaled p38 inhibitors currently
               undergoing clinical development for the treatment of COPD                                  Steven Charlton, Director, Receptor Biology, Novartis
             • Use of co-crystal structures to guide different design strategies for oral &
               inhaled delivery                                                                   14.35   Design of Libraries Targeting Protein-Protein Interfaces
             • Optimising slow onset/offset binding kinetics to enhance duration of drug action           • Rational design of PPI disruptors
             • Current clinical development - results & status                                            • Results of biological profiling
             John Mathias, Head of Medicinal Chemistry – Inflammation and                                 • PPI disruptors with favourable physicochemical properties
             Remodelling, Pfizer                                                                          • New approaches of identifying druggable PPIs
                                                                                                          Harald Mauser, Senior Scientist, Roche
    9.45     Discovery of PI3K p110β isoform inhibitors through structure-based
             fragment evolution                                                                   15.10   Drug binding and subtype selectivity in G-protein-coupled receptors
             • Structure-based evolution of original fragment hits resulting in                           • The development of small molecule ligands that selectively act on one of
               identification of novel potent inhibitor                                                     the five mAChR subtypes (M1–M5) has proven extremely challenging,
             • A summary of tactics and results from the initial fragment-based virtual                     primarily owing to the high degree of sequence similarity in the
               screening                                                                                    transmembrane core of these receptors
             • Structure-based hypotheses to improve potency and PI3K isoform                             • We characterized the pathway by which drugs bind to and dissociate from
               selectivity                                                                                  the M2 and M3 receptors using long timescale molecular dynamics
             • A focus on in silico, in vitro and in vivo data to support various design sets               simulations
             Fabrizio Giordanetto, Principal Scientist, AstraZeneca                                       • These simulations suggest a metastable drug-binding site in the
                                                                                                            extracellular vestibule of both receptors, and also provide a potential
    10.20    Morning Coffee                                                                                 rationale for the slower dissociation rates of certain M3 antagonists
    10.50    Computational Structure Activity Relationship Approaches to Help in Hit to                   • Our findings may facilitate the design of improved subtype-selective
             Lead Optimization                                                                              therapeutics targeting these critical receptors
             • Computational methods for Hit optimization                                                 Albert Pan, Research Scientist, D E Shaw Research
             • Statistical and structure based approaches to determine molecular
               properties                                                                         15.45   Afternoon Tea
             • Molecules design using SAR
             • Case study – Anti-infective Hit to Lead optimization                               16.10   Reverse Pharmacology - Predicting cellular and in vivo pharmacology
             • Case study – Cardiovascular System Hit identification                                      from binding events
             Jascha Blobel, Product Manager, Intelligent Pharma                                           • The availability of isolated receptor conformations in active and inactive
                                                                                                            states opens the door to the concept of ‘reverse pharmacology’, whereby
    11.30    Kinetic and Thermodynamic Signatures: How can they influence Hit and                           the functional pharmacology of ligands can be characterised in a system-
             Lead Optimization?                                                                             independent manner by their affinity for a pair (or set) of GPCR
             • Biophysical methods in drug discovery and their use to facilitate decisions                  conformations
             • Why do we work with Kinetics data?                                                         • Rationalisation of the pharmacology observed by ligand docking into the
             • How can kinetic data influence in drug discovery projects                                    known crystal structures of the A2A receptor: e.g., inverse agonists vs
             • Use of thermodynamic binding signatures in hit optimization. Current                         neutral antagonists
             status of use and next steps to come                                                         • The promise of predicting cellular and in vivo pharmacology of GPCR
             Mathias Frech, Director, Molecular Interactions & Biophysics, Merck                            ligands using this ‘reverse pharmacology’ approach on the basis of affinity
                                                                                                            constants or even free energy of binding calculations
    12.05    Keynote Address: OpenPHACTS: data integration for all
             • A public-private partnership under the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI)               Benjamin Tehan, Senior Computational Chemist, Heptares
               involving large Pharma, academics and SMEs
             • An open infrastructure based on semantic technologies for the                      16.50   Interfering with protein-protein interactions
               integration of pharmacological data in the life sciences                                   • What libraries can be used for screening?
             • Development of the platform driven by a prioritised set of “real life” drug                • Is there a need to design focused libraries for the target
               discovery questions                                                                        • How do fragment approaches effect interactions
             • Addressing some key challenges: sustainability, provenance, licensing,                     Gyorgy Keseru, Manager, Discovery Chemistry, Gedeon Richter
               private data
             Andrew Leach, Director of Computational Chemistry, GSK                               17.30   Chairman’s Closing Remarks
    12.40    Networking Lunch                                                                     17.40   Close of Day One


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HALF-DAY POST-CONFERENCE
               AM WORKSHOP
              9.00am – 12.30pm
        Wednesday 20th February 2013
       Copthorne Tara Hotel, London, UK

   A: Fragment-Based Lead Discovery:
         Issues and Applications

                Workshop Leader:
        Ben Davis, Research Fellow, Vernalis
                    In association with

                        Vernalis

Overview of workshop
With the expertise of the team from Vernalis, this unique
workshop will provide the perfect platform to discuss and
develop fragment based discovery strategies. This case-study
led session will present attendees with success stories to learn
from and adapt into their own drug discovery systems. With
structure-based drug development playing a larger and more
important role in drug design this workshop is not to be missed.



Programme
8.30   Registration and Coffee

9.00      Welcome and Introductions
9.10      Overview and Perspective
          • Current technologies in fragment-based lead
            discovery
          • Discussing lead discovery for more complex classes
            of therapeutic targets

9.45      Case Studies
          • Success Stories - highlighting the importance of
            structure-based technology in drug design
          • Problems encountered - how to overcome them?

10.30     Morning Coffee

11.00     Applications and Issues
          • Techniques to improve drug design strategies
          • Characterising receptor:ligand interactions
          • Preparing for the future of drug design

11.50     Discussion Session

12.30     Close of Workshop



About the workshop host
Ben Davis, Research Fellow, Vernalis
Dr Ben Davis studied protein folding by NMR for his PhD with
Professor Alan Fersht at Cambridge University Chemical
Laboratory, before moving to Dr Paul Driscoll’s NMR group at
University College London where he worked in protein-ligand
interactions in collaboration with Yamanouchi Pharmaceutical
Company. In 1998 he joined RiboTargets, a biotech company
formed out of the Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge,
where he worked on applying structure based drug discovery
techniques to a variety of RNA and protein targets. In 2003
RiboTargets merge with Vernalis Plc, and focussed research
towards protein targets. Since 2001, he has been heavily involved
in the development and application of fragment based lead
discovery technologies to a wide range of therapeutic targets.

About Vernalis
Vernalis is a world leader in structure and fragment-based drug
discovery, with an excellent track record for innovation and
delivery of clinical candidates in a range of therapeutic areas. We
have on product on the market, three programmes in Phase II
clinical trials and a broad pipeline of candidates derived from
successful collaborations with a number of global
pharmaceutical businesses and form our own research
activities.
HALF-DAY POST-CONFERENCE
             PM WORKSHOP
           13.30pm – 17.30pm
      Wednesday 20th February 2013
     Copthorne Tara Hotel, London, UK

  B: Binding kinetics for Drug Design: the
   Molecular and Structural Perspective
               Workshop Leaders:
     Xavier Barril, ICREA Research Professor,
             University of Barcelona
                      In association with
                            ICREA
Overview:
This unique workshop will explore the latest developments in
Structure-Kinetic Relationships and explore the importance of
binding kinetics on pharmacological responses. Led by Xavier
Barril, this exciting event will focus on current methods to study
and analyse kinetics as well as understand structural
determinants of binding kinetics. This case-study and discussion
led workshop will be a perfect forum for discussing the key
developments in structure kinetic relationships in the drug design
process with key industry professionals.

Why you should attend:
• Learn the importance of kinetics on pharmacological
  responses and the drug-design process
• Consider the latest developments in studying kinetics;
  focussing on different rate constants and thermodynamic
  parameters
• Understand and predict potential obstacles in structural
  determinants and discuss how best to prepare and avoid them
• Network with key industry professionals
• Utilize the experience of an expert in the field


13.30     Registration & Coffee

14.00     Welcome & Introductions

14.10     Binding Kinetics: importance in Drug Design
          • Introduction to binding kinetics
          • Impact on pharmacological response

14.40     Studying Kinetics: Methods and Basic Concepts
          • Measuring kinetic parameters
          • Macroscopic vs. Microscopic rate constants
          • Relationship with Thermodynamic parameters
          • What does association/dissociation look like?

15.30     Afternoon Tea

15.50     Structural Determinants of Binding Kinetics
          • Structural elements affecting on-rates
          • Trapping mechanisms decreasing off-rates
          • Binding coupled to rare events

16.50     Case Study and Discussion Session
          • Understanding (and predicting) kinetics in practice

17.20     Close of Workshop


About the workshop host:
Xavier Barril is an ICREA Research Professor at Barcelona
University’s School of Pharmacy. His research focuses on the
discovery of bioactive molecules exploiting unusual mechanisms
of action through a combined use of computational and
experimental techniques. In parallel, his group develops new
computational tools to tackle such tough targets and strives to
improve the molecular understanding of pharmacologically
important biological events. Prof. Barril received his Ph.D. from the
University of Barcelona in 2001 for theoretical studies on the
ligand-receptor molecular recognition process. He then joined the
Applications Modelling team at Vernalis (Cambridge, UK), where
he was involved in a range of projects, mainly in the oncology area,
including the discovery and optimization of Hsp90 inhibitors
currently undergoing Phase II clinical trials (licensed to Novartis).
In 2005 he was appointed ICREA Research Professor and joined
Barcelona University’s School of Pharmacy. He has co-authored
50 scientific publications, including research papers, reviews and
book chapters, as well as 7 patents.

About ICREA:
ICREA, the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies,
is a foundation supported by the Catalan Government whose aim
is to recruit top scientists for the Catalan R&D system. The
University of Barcelona is the largest public institution of higher
education in Catalonia as well as the principal centre of university
research in Spain.
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P 058 Advances And Progress In Drug Design

  • 1. REGISTER BY 31ST OCTOBER AND RECEIVE A £300 DISCOUNT REGISTER BY 30TH NOVEMBER AND RECEIVE A £100 DISCOUNT SMi present their 12th annual conference on… Advances and Progress in Drug Design Monday 18th and Tuesday 19th February 2013, Copthorne Tara Hotel, London, UK KEY SPEAKERS INCLUDE: Andrew Leach Friedemann Schmidt Director of Computational Chemistry Research Scientist GSK Sanofi Jose Duca Herman van Vlijmen Head of CADD Senior Director, Molecular Sciences Novartis Johnson & Johnson John Mathias Fabrizio Giordanetto Head of Medicinal Chemistry Principal Scientist Pfizer AstraZeneca Albert Pan, Steven Charlton Research Scientist Director, Receptor Biology D E Shaw Research Novartis Harald Mauser Mathias Frech Senior Scientist Director, Molecular Interactions Roche & Biophysics Merck WHY ATTEND THIS EVENT: • Understand the latest developments in predictive in-silico off-target profiling • Debate the use of design-focused libraries for screening • Analyse CADD methods in protein therapeutic applications • Learn about water network perturbation in structure-based drug design • Evaluate subtype selectivity in G-protein-coupled receptors • Consider novel isoform inhibitors through structure-based fragment evolution • Discover the value of reverse pharmacology and learning from binding events • Network with and learn from senior industry representatives to discuss the latest in computational chemogenics PLUS TWO INTERACTIVE HALF-DAY POST-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS Wednesday 20th February 2013, Copthorne Tara, London, UK A: Fragment-Based Lead Discovery: B: Binding kinetics for Drug Design: the Issues and Applications Molecular and Structural Perspective Workshop Leader: Workshop Leaders: Ben Davis, Research Fellow, Vernalis Xavier Barril, ICREA Research Professor, University of Barcelona 9.00am – 12.30pm 1.30pm-5.00pm Sponsored by www.drug-design.co.uk Register online and receive full information on all of SMi’s conferences Alternatively fax your registration to +44 (0) 870 9090 712 or call +44 (0) 870 9090 711
  • 2. Advances & Progress in Drug Design 2013 Day One | Monday 18th February 2013 www.drug-d 8.30 Registration and Coffee • Proteochemometric modeling is a computational technology that simultaneously uses activity data of multiple compounds on multiple 9.00 Chairman’s Opening Remarks targets. This technology was applied to two large datasets of non-nucleoside John Mathias, Head of Medicinal Chemistry – Inflammation and HIV reverse transcriptase inhibitors and resulted in improved predictions. Remodelling, Pfizer • Water molecules are important in the binding of small molecules to protein targets. WaterMap calculations were used to analyze the SAR of Hepatitis C Statistical Issues and Novel Approaches in CADD NS5a inhibitors, and provided new insights into the activity of these compounds 9.10 Predictive in-silico off-target profiling in drug discovery Herman Van Vlijmen, Senior Director, Molecular Science, Johnson & Johnson • Data-driven computational approaches to polypharmacology • Practical relevance to address compound selectivity and off-target related Binding Site Solvent Analysis effects in lead discovery and optimization • Chances and limits: Domain of applicability 15.00 Water Placement and Water Site Free Energy: Extending the 3D-RISM • Multi-criteria compound optimization Solvent Analysis Friedemann Schmidt, Senior Scientist, Drug Design, Sanofi • Placement of water molecules provides rationalisation of ambiguous SAR and focuses synthetic efforts 9.50 Computational Approaches to Polypharmacology and Mode-of-Action Analysis • Solution of modified 3D-RISM set of equations provides oxygen and • Current bioactivity databases are increasing in size, with the question hydrogen distributions which can be visualised three-dimensionally being how to exploit them • The chemical potential of water is computed using 3D-RISM and is linked • Applications to Mode-of-Action analysis using in silico target prediction to the local affinity of protein sites towards water will be presented • Here, we identify water site centres on which we can map the • A prospective application is ligand design taking bioactivity information thermodynamic properties of water, and examine the idea of using water against multiple receptors into account, for which experimental validation site free energy to infer water stability will be presented Paul Labute, Chief Executive Officer, Chemical Computing Andreas Bender, Lecturer for Molecular Informatics, Cambridge University Group 10.30 Morning Refreshments 15.40 Afternoon Tea 11.00 Can a better appreciation of statistics help and improve the field of 16.10 Improvements in docking performance with a new type of scoring Molecular Modeling? functions derived from molecular dynamics simulations of mixed solvents • What should a toolbox of simple statistical techniques look like for a molecular modeler? • Theoretical approaches for the representation of the solvent effect on • Address the issue of method validation given the data typically available structure and reactivity • Describe some of the advances other fields have • Discussion into the different methods available for analysis made using modern statistical methods • Challenges in computational approaches and how to overcome them Anthony Nicholls, CEO, OpenEye Software Xavier Barril, ICREA Research Professor, University of Barcelona 11.40 CADD applied to protein therapeutics 16.50 Water network perturbation in Structure-Based Drug Design: • Application to Ab humanization How far can we go? • Application to Ab stabilization • Recent efforts in the computational evaluation of the thermodynamic • Application to affinity maturation properties of water molecules resulted in the development of new • Application to novel formats promising in silico methods to evaluate the water role in ligand binding. Nicolas Baurin, Lead Generation Group Head, Sanofi • GRID (Molecular Discovery), SZMAP (OpenEye), WaterMap (Schrödinger) & 3D-RISM (Chemical Computing Group) used to evaluate the role of the 12.20 Protein-Ligand Recognition And How Out-of-the-Box Thinking Impacts solvent in protein function and druggability, structure-activity relationship Drug Design elucidation, ligand free energy of binding prediction and ligand residence • Diverse targets offer different structural insights. The PDB is a rich time evaluation. source of Information • Test case applying the methods to the Adenosine A2A receptor, and an • Unusual interactions can hint the next design steps (some of them are extension exploiting a recursive partitioning method (Random Forest) not so obvious) Andrea Bortolato, Senior Computational Chemist, Heptares • Intrinsic flexibility footprints and their relevance towards allosteric inhibition Jose Duca, Head of Computer-Aided Drug Discovery, Novartis 17.30 Chairman’s Closing Remarks 13.00 Networking Lunch 17.40 Close of Day One 14.20 Keynote Address: Drug Design for Antivirals: Structure - and 17.45 The first day of the conference will be followed ligand-based approaches to deal with resistance by a Networking Drinks Reception hosted by • Structure-based design of HIV protease inhibitors has led to broadly Chemical Computing Group active compounds. The resistance profile is often difficult to understand and better predictive structural modeling is needed. 19.15 End of Drinks Reception Register online at www.drug-design.co.uk • Alternatively fax y Sponsored by Chemical Computing Group provides state of the art drug discovery software. MOE delivers leading applications in protein modeling, combinatorial library design and focusing, QSAR, bio and chemoinformatics and structure based drug design. Platform independent application source code and an embedded programming language are also included, making MOE the most complete and flexible solution available. PSILO is also available for protein-ligand structural information storage and promulgation. For more information please visit www.chemcomp.com Intelligent Pharma offers different services in computational aided drug discovery. Our molecular modeling department carries out research projects to help your team design and develop new drugs using our computational chemistry expertise. Our specialists use Intelligent Pharma's technologies which include HELIOS, SELENE, MEDEA and CHIRON as well as other 3rd party software. www.intelligentpharma.com OpenEye Scientific Software is a privately held company headquartered in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with offices in Boston, Massachusetts, Strasbourg, France and Tokyo, Japan. It was founded in 1997 to develop large-scale software for drug design and molecular modeling with a primary focus on virtual screening and lead-hopping. The OpenEye software is designed for scientific rigor, speed, scalability and platform independence. Areas of expertise include cheminformatics, conformer generation, docking, shape comparison, electrostatics, crystallography and visualization. OpenEye makes most of its technology available as toolkits - programming libraries suitable for custom development. For further information on the company and its products, see www.eyesopen.com Supported by
  • 3. design.co.uk Day Two | Tuesday 19th February 2013 8.30 Re-registration and Coffee A Focus on Protein-Protein Interactions and GPCR 9.00 Chairman's Opening Remarks 14.00 Prolonged target binding and rebinding as mechanisms to enhance John Mathias, Head of Medicinal Chemistry – Inflammation and duration of drug action Remodelling, Pfizer • The influence of dissociation rate on drug efficacy and duration of action • Modelling restricted diffusion in micro-anatomic structures and introducing Developments in Lead Discovery and Drug Design the concept of drug rebinding and its influence on duration of action • Enhancing the likelihood of rebinding by optimising affinity for the local 9.10 Using Structure-Based Drug Design to Identify Novel Oral & Inhaled p38 target environment Inhibitors for COPD • How these phenomena may complicate interpretation of the • Application of structure-based drug design in the identification and pharmacology of new drugs optimization of a platform of oral & inhaled p38 inhibitors currently undergoing clinical development for the treatment of COPD Steven Charlton, Director, Receptor Biology, Novartis • Use of co-crystal structures to guide different design strategies for oral & inhaled delivery 14.35 Design of Libraries Targeting Protein-Protein Interfaces • Optimising slow onset/offset binding kinetics to enhance duration of drug action • Rational design of PPI disruptors • Current clinical development - results & status • Results of biological profiling John Mathias, Head of Medicinal Chemistry – Inflammation and • PPI disruptors with favourable physicochemical properties Remodelling, Pfizer • New approaches of identifying druggable PPIs Harald Mauser, Senior Scientist, Roche 9.45 Discovery of PI3K p110β isoform inhibitors through structure-based fragment evolution 15.10 Drug binding and subtype selectivity in G-protein-coupled receptors • Structure-based evolution of original fragment hits resulting in • The development of small molecule ligands that selectively act on one of identification of novel potent inhibitor the five mAChR subtypes (M1–M5) has proven extremely challenging, • A summary of tactics and results from the initial fragment-based virtual primarily owing to the high degree of sequence similarity in the screening transmembrane core of these receptors • Structure-based hypotheses to improve potency and PI3K isoform • We characterized the pathway by which drugs bind to and dissociate from selectivity the M2 and M3 receptors using long timescale molecular dynamics • A focus on in silico, in vitro and in vivo data to support various design sets simulations Fabrizio Giordanetto, Principal Scientist, AstraZeneca • These simulations suggest a metastable drug-binding site in the extracellular vestibule of both receptors, and also provide a potential 10.20 Morning Coffee rationale for the slower dissociation rates of certain M3 antagonists 10.50 Computational Structure Activity Relationship Approaches to Help in Hit to • Our findings may facilitate the design of improved subtype-selective Lead Optimization therapeutics targeting these critical receptors • Computational methods for Hit optimization Albert Pan, Research Scientist, D E Shaw Research • Statistical and structure based approaches to determine molecular properties 15.45 Afternoon Tea • Molecules design using SAR • Case study – Anti-infective Hit to Lead optimization 16.10 Reverse Pharmacology - Predicting cellular and in vivo pharmacology • Case study – Cardiovascular System Hit identification from binding events Jascha Blobel, Product Manager, Intelligent Pharma • The availability of isolated receptor conformations in active and inactive states opens the door to the concept of ‘reverse pharmacology’, whereby 11.30 Kinetic and Thermodynamic Signatures: How can they influence Hit and the functional pharmacology of ligands can be characterised in a system- Lead Optimization? independent manner by their affinity for a pair (or set) of GPCR • Biophysical methods in drug discovery and their use to facilitate decisions conformations • Why do we work with Kinetics data? • Rationalisation of the pharmacology observed by ligand docking into the • How can kinetic data influence in drug discovery projects known crystal structures of the A2A receptor: e.g., inverse agonists vs • Use of thermodynamic binding signatures in hit optimization. Current neutral antagonists status of use and next steps to come • The promise of predicting cellular and in vivo pharmacology of GPCR Mathias Frech, Director, Molecular Interactions & Biophysics, Merck ligands using this ‘reverse pharmacology’ approach on the basis of affinity constants or even free energy of binding calculations 12.05 Keynote Address: OpenPHACTS: data integration for all • A public-private partnership under the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) Benjamin Tehan, Senior Computational Chemist, Heptares involving large Pharma, academics and SMEs • An open infrastructure based on semantic technologies for the 16.50 Interfering with protein-protein interactions integration of pharmacological data in the life sciences • What libraries can be used for screening? • Development of the platform driven by a prioritised set of “real life” drug • Is there a need to design focused libraries for the target discovery questions • How do fragment approaches effect interactions • Addressing some key challenges: sustainability, provenance, licensing, Gyorgy Keseru, Manager, Discovery Chemistry, Gedeon Richter private data Andrew Leach, Director of Computational Chemistry, GSK 17.30 Chairman’s Closing Remarks 12.40 Networking Lunch 17.40 Close of Day One your registration to +44 (0)870 9090 712 or call +44 (0)870 9090 711 Who should attend this conference: SPONSORSHIP AND EXHIBITION OPPORTUNITIES This event is unmissable VPs, Directors, Heads, Senior Managers SMi offer sponsorship, exhibition, advertising and branding and Pricnipal Scientists from the following departments: packages, uniquely tailored to complement your company’s marketing strategy. Prime networking opportunities exist to entertain, enhance and expand your client base within the • Structure and Informatics • Drug Discovery & Design context of an independent discussion specific to your industry. • Computer-Aided Drug Design • Target Discovery Should you wish to join the increasing number of companies • Computational Chemistry • Translational Sciences benefiting from sponsoring our conferences please call: Alia Malick on +44 (0) 20 7827 6168 or • Cancer Research • Biophysics email: amalick@smi-online.co.uk • Molecular Interaction • Screening • Medicinal Chemistry • Clinical Development Want to know how you can get involved? Interested in • Pharmacology • Structural Biology promoting your pharmaceutical services to this market? Contact Margaret Mugema, SMi Marketing on • Molecular Imaging • Crystallography +44 (0) 20 7827 6072 or email mmugema@smi-online.co.uk • Neuroscience Chemistry • Medicinal Chemistry
  • 4. HALF-DAY POST-CONFERENCE AM WORKSHOP 9.00am – 12.30pm Wednesday 20th February 2013 Copthorne Tara Hotel, London, UK A: Fragment-Based Lead Discovery: Issues and Applications Workshop Leader: Ben Davis, Research Fellow, Vernalis In association with Vernalis Overview of workshop With the expertise of the team from Vernalis, this unique workshop will provide the perfect platform to discuss and develop fragment based discovery strategies. This case-study led session will present attendees with success stories to learn from and adapt into their own drug discovery systems. With structure-based drug development playing a larger and more important role in drug design this workshop is not to be missed. Programme 8.30 Registration and Coffee 9.00 Welcome and Introductions 9.10 Overview and Perspective • Current technologies in fragment-based lead discovery • Discussing lead discovery for more complex classes of therapeutic targets 9.45 Case Studies • Success Stories - highlighting the importance of structure-based technology in drug design • Problems encountered - how to overcome them? 10.30 Morning Coffee 11.00 Applications and Issues • Techniques to improve drug design strategies • Characterising receptor:ligand interactions • Preparing for the future of drug design 11.50 Discussion Session 12.30 Close of Workshop About the workshop host Ben Davis, Research Fellow, Vernalis Dr Ben Davis studied protein folding by NMR for his PhD with Professor Alan Fersht at Cambridge University Chemical Laboratory, before moving to Dr Paul Driscoll’s NMR group at University College London where he worked in protein-ligand interactions in collaboration with Yamanouchi Pharmaceutical Company. In 1998 he joined RiboTargets, a biotech company formed out of the Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, where he worked on applying structure based drug discovery techniques to a variety of RNA and protein targets. In 2003 RiboTargets merge with Vernalis Plc, and focussed research towards protein targets. Since 2001, he has been heavily involved in the development and application of fragment based lead discovery technologies to a wide range of therapeutic targets. About Vernalis Vernalis is a world leader in structure and fragment-based drug discovery, with an excellent track record for innovation and delivery of clinical candidates in a range of therapeutic areas. We have on product on the market, three programmes in Phase II clinical trials and a broad pipeline of candidates derived from successful collaborations with a number of global pharmaceutical businesses and form our own research activities.
  • 5. HALF-DAY POST-CONFERENCE PM WORKSHOP 13.30pm – 17.30pm Wednesday 20th February 2013 Copthorne Tara Hotel, London, UK B: Binding kinetics for Drug Design: the Molecular and Structural Perspective Workshop Leaders: Xavier Barril, ICREA Research Professor, University of Barcelona In association with ICREA Overview: This unique workshop will explore the latest developments in Structure-Kinetic Relationships and explore the importance of binding kinetics on pharmacological responses. Led by Xavier Barril, this exciting event will focus on current methods to study and analyse kinetics as well as understand structural determinants of binding kinetics. This case-study and discussion led workshop will be a perfect forum for discussing the key developments in structure kinetic relationships in the drug design process with key industry professionals. Why you should attend: • Learn the importance of kinetics on pharmacological responses and the drug-design process • Consider the latest developments in studying kinetics; focussing on different rate constants and thermodynamic parameters • Understand and predict potential obstacles in structural determinants and discuss how best to prepare and avoid them • Network with key industry professionals • Utilize the experience of an expert in the field 13.30 Registration & Coffee 14.00 Welcome & Introductions 14.10 Binding Kinetics: importance in Drug Design • Introduction to binding kinetics • Impact on pharmacological response 14.40 Studying Kinetics: Methods and Basic Concepts • Measuring kinetic parameters • Macroscopic vs. Microscopic rate constants • Relationship with Thermodynamic parameters • What does association/dissociation look like? 15.30 Afternoon Tea 15.50 Structural Determinants of Binding Kinetics • Structural elements affecting on-rates • Trapping mechanisms decreasing off-rates • Binding coupled to rare events 16.50 Case Study and Discussion Session • Understanding (and predicting) kinetics in practice 17.20 Close of Workshop About the workshop host: Xavier Barril is an ICREA Research Professor at Barcelona University’s School of Pharmacy. His research focuses on the discovery of bioactive molecules exploiting unusual mechanisms of action through a combined use of computational and experimental techniques. In parallel, his group develops new computational tools to tackle such tough targets and strives to improve the molecular understanding of pharmacologically important biological events. Prof. Barril received his Ph.D. from the University of Barcelona in 2001 for theoretical studies on the ligand-receptor molecular recognition process. He then joined the Applications Modelling team at Vernalis (Cambridge, UK), where he was involved in a range of projects, mainly in the oncology area, including the discovery and optimization of Hsp90 inhibitors currently undergoing Phase II clinical trials (licensed to Novartis). In 2005 he was appointed ICREA Research Professor and joined Barcelona University’s School of Pharmacy. He has co-authored 50 scientific publications, including research papers, reviews and book chapters, as well as 7 patents. About ICREA: ICREA, the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies, is a foundation supported by the Catalan Government whose aim is to recruit top scientists for the Catalan R&D system. The University of Barcelona is the largest public institution of higher education in Catalonia as well as the principal centre of university research in Spain.
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Job Title: Department/Division: Company/Organisation: VENUE Copthorne Tara Hotel, Scarsdale Place, Kensington, London W8 5SR Email: □ Please contact me to book my hotel Company VAT Number: Alternatively call us on +44 (0) 870 9090 711, Address: email: events@smi-online.co.uk or fax +44 (0) 870 9090 712 Town/City: DOCUMENTATION Post/Zip Code: Country: I cannot attend but would like to purchase access to the following Document Direct Tel: Direct Fax: Portal/paper copy documentation Price Total □ Access to the conference documentation Mobile: on the Document Portal £499.00 + VAT £598.80 Switchboard: □ The Conference Presentations – paper copy £499.00 - £499.00 (or only £300 if ordered with the Document Portal) Signature: Date: I agree to be bound by SMi's Terms and Conditions of Booking. ACCOUNTS DEPT PAYMENT Title: Forename: Payment must be made to SMi Group Ltd, and received before the event, by one of the Surname: following methods quoting reference P-058 and the delegate’s name. Bookings made within 7 days of the event require payment on booking, methods of payment are below. Please Email: indicate method of payment: Address (if different from above): □ UK BACS Sort Code 300009, Account 00936418 □ Wire Transfer Lloyds TSB Bank plc, 39 Threadneedle Street, London, EC2R 8AU Swift (BIC): LOYDGB21013, Account 00936418 Town/City: IBAN GB48 LOYD 3000 0900 9364 18 □ Cheque We can only accept Sterling cheques drawn on a UK bank. Post/Zip Code: Country: □ Credit Card □ Visa □ MasterCard □ American Express Direct Tel: Direct Fax: All credit card payments will be subject to standard credit card charges. Card No: □□□□ □□□□ □□□□ □□□□ Terms and Conditions of Booking Valid From □□/□□ Expiry Date □□/□□ CVV Number □□□□ 3 digit security on reverse of card, 4 digits for AMEX card Payment: If payment is not made at the time of booking, then an invoice will be issued and must be paid immediately and prior to the start of the event. If payment has not been received then credit card details will be requested and payment taken before entry to the event. Bookings within 7 days of event require payment on booking. Access to the Document Portal will not be given until payment has been received. Cardholder’s Name: Substitutions/Name Changes: If you are unable to attend you may nominate, in writing, another delegate to take your place at any time prior to the start of the event. Two or more delegates may not ‘share’ a place at an event. Please make separate bookings for each delegate. Signature: Date: Cancellation: If you wish to cancel your attendance at an event and you are unable to send a I agree to be bound by SMi's Terms and Conditions of Booking. substitute, then we will refund/credit 50% of the due fee less a £50 administration charge, providing that cancellation is made in writing and received at least 28 days prior to the start of the Card Billing Address (If different from above): event. Regretfully cancellation after this time cannot be accepted. We will however provide the conferences documentation via the Document Portal to any delegate who has paid but is unable to attend for any reason. Due to the interactive nature of the Briefings we are not normally able to provide documentation in these circumstances. We cannot accept cancellations of orders placed for Documentation or the Document Portal as these are reproduced specifically to order. If we have to cancel the event for any reason, then we will make a full refund immediately, but disclaim any further liability. Alterations: It may become necessary for us to make alterations to the content, speakers, timing, venue or date of the event compared to the advertised programme. Data Protection: The SMi Group gathers personal data in accordance with the UK Data Protection Act 1998 and we may use this to contact you by telephone, fax, post or email to tell you about other VAT products and services. Unless you tick here □ we may also share your data with third parties VAT at 20% is charged on the attendance fees for all delegates. VAT is also charged on Document offering complementary products or services. If you have any queries or want to update any of the data that we hold then please contact our Database Manager databasemanager@smi-online.co.uk Portal and Literature Distribution for all UK customers and for those EU customers not supplying or visit our website www.smi-online.co.uk/updates quoting the URN as detailed above your address on the attached letter. a registration number for their own country here: ______________________________________ If you have any further queries please call the Events Team on tel +44 (0) 870 9090 711 or you can email them at events@smi-online.co.uk