Emerging Technologies in Drug Discovery and Development

Shanghai, September 23-25, 2024.

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Visit the Planetary session: Enhancing drug discovery experience:: A hands-on guide to next-gen structural modeling and peptide design software

Below is the preliminary program, which is subject to change by the start of the conference.
List of poster presentations can be found HERE.

 

Sunday, September 22

17:00 - 22:00
Participant registration, Shanghai Novotel hotel
19:30 - 22:00 Welcome drink

Monday, September 23

8:30 - 8:50  Opening ceremony

Plenary Session 1 (大会报告 1)  Mon. Sept. 23 星期一上午
Session chairs 主持人: Professor  Ao Zhang and Professor Christel Bergström

8:50 - 9:30  

Ao Zhang, Ph.D. Professor, Shanghai Frontiers Science Center of Drug Target Identification and Delivery,  and National Key Laboratory of Innovative Immunotherapy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Immune activators containing various directing bullets as potential cancer therapies

9:30 - 10:10   Annette Bauer-Brandl Professor, University of Southern Denmark
Biomimetic in vitro Tools for Mechanistic Insight into Prodrug Performance: Dissolution/Bioconversion/Permeation Studies
10:10 - 10:30   Coffee break + poster presentations
10:30 - 11:10   Christel Bergström, Professor, Molecular Pharmaceutics at Uppsala University, Sweden; Adjunct Professor in Pharmaceutics at Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University, Australia
New methods for absorption profiling of advanced drug delivery systems
11:10 - 11:50

  Carolina Säll, Ph.D., Principal Scientist. Novo Nordisk, Denmark
Can we utilize a small molecule strategy when developing therapeutic peptides?
11:50 - 13:30
  Lunch + poster presentations

 

S1 分会报告 1 (Drug design/Drug screeningMon. Sept. 23 星期一下午
Session chairs 主持人:  Dr. Wei Zhu and Dr. Huiping Amy Guan

13:30 - 14:00

  Wei Zhu, Ph.D., Head of Medicinal Chemistry, China Innovation Center of Roche, China
Enhancing Precision in Therapeutics: Targeted Drug Delivery via Site-Selective Activation of Prodrug
14:00 - 14:30

 

Zhixiong ZhaoPh.D., CADD Director, Beyang Therapeutics
Automatic Scaffold Replacement by Matched Molecular Pair Transformation

14:30 - 15:00   Yuanfeng XiaPh.D., Executive Director, Head of biology in small molecule discovery department in GenSci Pharma
Discovery of a highly potent KIF18A inhibitor for Tumors with Chromosome Instability
15:00 - 15:30   Jingwu Kang, Ph.D. Prof. State Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology, Center for Excellence in Molecular Synthesis, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Chemoproteomics and Phosphoproteomics Profiling Reveals Salvianolic Acid A as a Covalent Inhibitor of mTORC1
15:30 - 15:50
  Coffee break + poster presentations
15:50 - 16:20   Huiping Amy GuanPhD, Chief Technology Officer, Uprotech Pharmaceutical Inc
Defining ADMET and DMPK profiling of small molecule drugs based on disease targets
16:20 - 16:50   Haiyan YingPhD, Executive director, Discovery Biology, Abbisko Therapeutics, China
Irpagratinib (ABSK011) A Potential First/Best-in-Class FGFR4 Inhibitor
16:50 - 17:20  

Anna Karpenko, United Institute of Informatics Problems, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Republic of Belarus
Application of AI technologies and molecular modeling to identify small-molecule compounds as potential inhibitors against Bcr-Abl tyrosine kinase

17:20 - 17:40   Oral presentations - to be added later

 

S2 分会报告 2 (Drug design/Drug screening/PROTAC) Mon. Sept. 23 星期一下午
Session chairs 主持人: Dr. Xiaobao Yang and Dr. Li Zeng

 13:30 - 14:00   Weiwen Ying,Ph.D. Founder, CEO, Ranok Therapeutics, China.
Chaperone-mediated Protein Degradation technology platform
 14:00 - 14:30   Xingquan Ma, Ph.D. Co-president of Chempartner & Head of Chemistry , China

Opinions in Integrated TPD/PROTAC Discovery

 14:30 - 15:00   Yan Feng, Ph.D. Founder, CEO, LeadingTac Pharma, China
IRAK4 Degrader, A Promising Choice for the Treatment of Autoimmune Diseases
 15:00 - 15:30   Li Zeng, Ph.D. CEO, Jing Medicine, China.
Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) Treatment and PROTAC as a New Targeted Therapy
15:30 - 15:50
  Coffee break + poster presentations
 15:50 - 16:20   Yong Cang,Professor, School of Life Science and Technology, Shanghai Tech University;Co-founder and Principal Scientist of Degron Therapeutics, China
Targeting the undruggable disease targets with molecular glue degraders
 16:20 - 16:50   Jiyue Zhang, Ph.D. Co-founder and CEO, Aubrak Therapeutics, China

PROTAC drug development based on tumor tissue-specific E3 ligase

 16:50 - 17:20   Wenfu Tan, M.D., Ph.D. Professor, School of Pharmacy, Fudan University, China

Development of an oral BCL-XL PROTAC

 17:20 - 17:50   Xiaobao Yang, Ph.D. Founder, Chairman and CEO, Gluetacs Therapeutics, China
Protein degradation Dual platform (GlueTacs®) driven oncology and autoimmune disease drug development
17:50 - 18:10   Oral presentations - to be added later

 

Tuesday, September 24

S3 分会报告 3 (Structures and Physiochemical properties) Tue. Sept. 24 星期二上午
Session chairs 主持人: Dr. Alex Adveef and Professor  Tatjana Verbić

8:30 - 9:00   Alex AvdeefCEO, In ADME Research, USA
Glycine.HCl – ‘Uncommon’ Common-Ion Effects in High Ionic-Strength Solutions
9:00 - 9:30   Shenaz BunallyPhD, Associate Director, GlaxoSmithKline, UK
Enhancing Drug Design: The Physicochemical Approach
9:30 - 10:00
 

Tatjana VerbićProfessor, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Solubilizing poorly soluble drugs with acid-base (super)solubilization principle – interactions that make it work

10:00–10:20 
  Coffee break + poster presentations
10:20 - 10:50   Kiyohiko SuganoProfessor, Ritsumeikan University, Japan
Cutting the Gordian knot of bicarbonate buffer by floating lid
10:50 - 11:20   Klara ValkoCEO, Biomimetic Chromatography Ltd., UK
Analysis of measured biomimetic properties of one thousand marketed drug molecules - comparison of calculated and measured data and general characterisations of the property space
11:20 - 11:50   Hassan Karimi-MalehProfessor, University of Electronics Science and Technology of China
Electrochemical Sensors and biosensors in pharmaceutical and environmental analysis; new principles and research
11:50 - 12:10   Nurhasni Hassan, Faculty of Pharmacy, Hasanuddin University, Jl. Perintis Kemerdekaan KM 10, Makassar 90245, Indonesia
Development and Characterization of Clindamycin-releasing Polyvinyl Alcohol with Self-healing Property for the Effective Treatment of Biofilm-Infected Wounds
12:10 - 12:30   Dmitriy Rybin, Udmurt Federal Research Center UB of RAS, Izhevsk, Russian Federation
Exploring the mechanisms behind the amorphization and co-amorphization of organic and bioinorganic substances
12:30 - 13:30
  Lunch + poster presentations

S4 分会报告 4 (CMC and Formulation) Tue. Sept. 24 星期二上午
Session chairs  主持人: Dr. Likun Wang and Dr. Decheng Ma

8:30 - 9:00   Likun Wang, Ph.D.,Founder & Managing Director,Nanjing HaiWei Pharmaceutical Technologies Co., Ltd
Predicting crystallization rate of amorphous solid dispersion: a Griseofulvin/HPMCAS case study
9:00 - 9:30   Xueming Liu, Ph.D.Vice President, Chemistry, Manufacturing and Controls, Haihe Biopharma Co. Ltd.
The Effects of the Physical Properties of Drug Substance on the  Drug Release of Oral Solid Dosage Forms
 9:30 - 10:00   Yang Wang, Ph.D. Leader of Technology Platform, Shenzhen HwaGen Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
Application of Flow Chemistry in Drug Substance Process Development
10:00 - 10:20
  Coffee break + poster presentations
 10:20 - 10:50   Decheng Ma, Ph.D. CEO of Crystal Formulation Services
Overcome Solubility Challenges for Oral Solid Dosage Forms (OSD) with Amorphous Solid Dispersion (ASD)
10:50 - 11:20  

Longwei Sun, Ph.D. Director of CMC, Formulation Head, Asieris Pharmaceuticals
Strategy for NCE topical formulation development

11:20 - 11:40   Derar M. Omari, Faculty of Pharmacy/Yarmouk University, Irbid, Jordan
Microwave Co - Crystallization of Modafinil with Gelucire 48/16 to improve its compression Characteristics
11:40 - 12:00   Evgeniy Losev, Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia
Control over metastable polymorphs of carbamazepine: mechanochemistry and crystallization from fatty acid melt
12:00 - 13:30
  Lunch + poster presentations

 

S5 分会报告 5 (ADME and PK) Tue. Sept. 24 星期二下午
Session chairs 主持人: Professor  Dafang Zhong

13:30 - 14:00   Dafang ZhongPh.D., Professor and PI, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Metabolic and Pharmacokinetic Studies of the Prodrug Vicagrel
14:00 - 14:30  

Wei Li, Ph. D., Founder and CEO, Tianjin Ruicheng Jianda Medical Technology Co., Ltd
Head-to-head preclinical study of Anve0301 and Nintedanib for anti pulmonary fibrosis

14:30 - 15:00   Zhenyu Guo, PhD., Associate Director Application Science, TandemAI
Revolutionizing Drug Discovery: The Role of Advanced Virtual High-Throughput Screening and Cryptic Pocket Identification in Hit Identification
15:00 - 15:20   Coffee break + poster presentations
15:20 - 15:40  

Zhuohan Hu, PhD., CEO, Professor, Research Institute for Liver Diseases (Shanghai)Co.,Ltd
Evaluating Clinical Significance of DDl based on in vitro, animal and clinical studies

15:40 - 16:00   Hong-Can Ren, Ph.D., Director Genfleet, China
The risk prediction and management of Drug-Drug Interaction in drug discovery and development
16:00 - 16:30   Zhengdan Zhu, Ph.D., Drug Discovery Scientist & Head of Computational Chemistry, DP Technology
Attempts in the AI for Science Era to Optimize Drug-Like Properties: Pre-Trained Models, Fine-Tuning, and Data Mining
16:30 - 17:00   Hang Fai Kwok, PhD., Professor, Institute of Translational Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Macau, Avenida da Universidade, Taipa, Macau S.A.R.
Polyamidoamine dendrimer conjugated with novel scorpion venom peptide as a promising targeted delivery system for glioblastoma
17:00 - 17:20   Yury Kornoushenko, Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Republic of Belarus
Structure-based virtual screening of potential SARS-CoV-2 entry inhibitors  based on lichen metabolites

 

S6 分会报告 6 (Pharmacology and PK/PD/PBPK modeling) Tue. Sept. 24 星期二下午
Session chairs  主持人: Professor  Xiaoqiang Xiang and Dr. Dongyang Liu

 13:30 - 14:00   Xiaoqiang Xiang, Ph.D., Professor, School of Pharmacy, Fudan University, China
Progress of drug-drug interaction research in China based on PBPK model
14:00 - 14:30   Xiaomei Zhuang Ph.D., Research fellow of the Beijing Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology
Advancing Drug Development: Bridging the Gap Between Animal Studies and Human Applications with PBPK Modeling
14:30 - 15:00   Hua He Ph.D., Associate Professor of China Pharmaceutical University
PBPK Modeling and Simulation: A Key to Predicting Drug Efficacy and Toxicity
15:00 - 15:20 
  Coffee break + poster presentations
15:20 - 15:50   Dongyang Liu, Ph.D.,  Professor & Director of Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacometrics Office (CPPO), and Deputy Director of Drug Clinical Trial Center of Peking University Third Hospital (PUTH)
MIPD Study for Specific Population: Our progression and thinking
15:50 - 16:10   Kirill Peskov, M&S Decisions, Dubai, UAE
Re-thinking clinical translation in Immuno-Oncology: A QSP platform for the analysis of syngeneic murine tumor dynamics data
16:10 - 16:30   W.S. Fred Wong, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Developing calcaratarin D, a labdane diterpenoid, as therapeutics for chronic lung diseases
16:30 - 16:50   Danila Varabyeu, United Institute of Informatics Problems, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Minsk,Republic of Belarus
Application of graphically accelerated molecular docking to reinforcement learning for de novo design of potential HIV-1 entry inhibitors
16:50 - 17:10   Anna Gonchar, United Institute of Informatics Problems, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Minsk, Republic of Belarus
Computational discovery of small-molecule compounds as potential inhibitors of Mycobacterium tuberculosis enoyl acyl carrier protein reductase (InhA)

 

Wedensday, September 25

S7 分会报告 7 (Toxicology/Safety/Drugability assessments) Wed. Sept. 25 星期三上午
Session chairs 主持人: Dr. Yun Zhang and Dr. Xiancheng Zeng

8:30 - 9:00   Yun ZhangPh.D., DABT, DSTL, Pfizer, USA
Developing Non-Clinical Safety Assessment Strategy for New Drug Development
9:00 - 9:30   Jieyu DaiPhDAssociate Director, Preclinical Sciences and Translational Safety, Johnson & Johnson, China
Assessment and Mitigation Strategy for Reactive Metabolite in Drug Discovery
9:30 - 10:00   Xu ZhangPh.D., Vice President, ICE Bioscience InC
Assessment of Abuse Potential of Benzodiazepines, Diazepam with ICESTP Drug Abuse Safety Panel
10:00 - 10:20   Coffee break + poster presentations
10:20 - 10:50   Xiancheng Zeng, Ph.D., VP, Preclinical Toxicology Research of Medicilon
Safety assessment of preclinical candidates - An analysis and comparison of NOAEL/MTD and safety windows between rodents and non-rodents
10:50 - 11:20   Liqiang Zhou, Ph.D., DCST, DABT, Director of Toxicology, JOINN Laboratories (Suzhou) Co,. Ltd
Nonclinical Considerations for Proteolysis-Targeting Chimeras (PROTACs)
11:20 - 11:50   Li Ma, Senior Principal Scientific Researcher, Genentech, USA
Dynamic Free Fraction: Concept, Methodology and Impact on Hepatic Clearance Prediction Using the Well-stirred Model
11:50 - 12:10   Yan Laikou, United Institute of Informatics Problems , National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Minsk, Republic of Belarus
Virtual screening and identification of potential HIV-1 entry inhibitors targeting the NHR domain of the viral gp41 glycoprotein using a drug repurposing strategy
12:10 - 13:30   Lunch + poster presentations

 

S8 分会报告 8 (CNS and Translational Sciences) Wed. Sept. 25 星期三上午
Session chairs 主持人 : Dr. Houfu Liu and Dr. Irena Loryan

8:30 - 9:00   Jashvant (Jash) D. Unadkat, Ph.D. Professor Dept. of Pharmaceutics Univ. of Washington, US
In vitro predictions, followed by verification through PET imaging, of human CNS distribution and drug-drug interactions of transported drugs
9:00 - 9:30   Wandong Zhang, Principal Research Officer, National Research Council Canada; Adjunct Professor, University of Ottawa, Canada
CNS delivery for challenging modalities
 9:30 - 10:00   Yanyan Zhang,Ph.D. Senior Director Clinical Pharmacology, AstraZeneca China
In silico prediction of brain penetration
10:00 - 10:20   Coffee break + poster presentations
10:20 - 10:50   Houfu Liu,Ph.D. Vice President, Clinical Pharmacology/DMPK, SciNeuro Therapeutics Inc

Drug Distribution into Peripheral Nerve

10:50 - 11:20   Tingting Fu,MSc., MBA Executive Director DMPK, Safety Assessment, Clinical Pharmacology and Regulatory Affairs, Suzhou Zanrong Pharma Limited
Discovery and development of CNS penetrant cancer drugs
11:20 - 11:50   Irena Loryan, M.D. and Ph.D., Senior lecturer Pharmacokinetics and an associate professor in the Department of Pharmacy, Uppsala University, Sweden
Drug transport across CNS and PNS barriers
 11:50 - 12:10   Yuhua SongDepartments of 1Biomedical Engineering Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO. USA
Repurposing Available Drugs to target immune receptor TREM2 in Alzheimer’s Disease
12:10 - 13:30   Lunch + poster presentations

 

Plenary Session  2 (大会报告 2) Wed. Sept. 25 星期三下午
Chairs  主持人: Professor  Godefridus J. Peters and Professor  Tonglei Li

13:30 - 14:10

  Ning Jiao, Ph.D., Professor, State Key Laboratory of Natural and Biomimetic Drugs, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Peking University, China
Late-Stage Modification of Bioactive Molecules for Drug Discovery
14:10 - 14:50  

Defang OuyangProfesor, Ph.D., PI, Institute of Chinese Medical Sciences, University of Macau
Opportunity and challenge of artificial intelligence (AI) in drug delivery

14:50 - 15:10   Coffee break + poster presentations
15:10 - 15:50   Godefridus J. Peters, Profesor, Department of Medical Oncology, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Mechanisms of action of the novel epigenetic modulator fluorocyclopentenylcytosine (RX-3117); activation, resistance and DNMT1 downregulation
15:50 - 16:30   Tonglei Li, Professor, Purdue University, USA, Editor-in-Chief of Pharmaceutical Research
Encoding Quantum Information of Molecule for Drug Properties Prediction
 16:30 - 17:10  

Weikang Tao, Ph.D., MD, Corp VP and General Manager of Global R&D of Innovative Medicines, Qilu Pharmaceuticals
Recent advances and challenges in R&D of antibody-drug conjugates for cancer treatment

17:10 - 17:40   Closing ceremony