1st Alpine Winter Conference on Medicinal and Synthetic Chemistry

St. Anton, Austria - January 28 - February 1, 2018

The “Alpine Winter Conference on Medicinal and Synthetic Chemistry” exposes attending scientists to cutting edge synthetic and medicinal chemistry as well as latest developments in technologies that foster innovation in drug discovery. The main target audience for this highly interdisciplinary meeting will include medicinal and synthetic chemists, as well as related drug discovery disciplines from both industry and academia as well as graduate/undergraduate students and postdocs.

In the spirit of Keystone and Gordon conferences as well as the MBCF (Medicinal and Bioorganic Chemistry Foundation) conference in Steamboat Springs, the format of this meeting provides ample opportunity for attendees to informally interact. The aim is to strengthen existing networks and create new contacts.

For each of the below topics, a slot in the programme will be available for an oral communication selected out of the submitted abstracts. In addition, an open MedChem session on "Drug Discovery Tales" will have 3 open slots for oral communications. See instructions on "How to submit your abstract online".

The Conference topics will include:

• Addressing Preclinical Toxicity – Approaches and Lessons Learned (with panel discussion)
• Advances in Lead Generation
• Advances in Synthetic Methods
• Alternative Modalities
• Challenges and Opportunities in Fragment Based Drug Discovery
• Chemical Biology in Drug and Target Discovery
• Drug Discovery Tales
• Late Stage Functionalization

The official symposium language is English.

Scientific Organising Committee

• Dr Klemens HOEGENAUER (Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Basel, Switzerland)
• Dr Karl Heinz KRAWINKLER (Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Basel, Switzerland)
• Dr Antonia F. STEPAN (Pfizer, Cambridge, United States)

We are looking forward to welcoming you in beautiful St. Anton!

More information on the website of the conference

Int. conference “The Economics of Innovation: from Basic research to the Market”

The NCCR Chemical Biology is pleased to announce the 1^st edition of the interdisciplinary and international conference “The Economics of Innovation: from Basic research to the Market” to be held from Sept. 04 to Sept. 06, 2017 in Geneva at the Brocher Foundation, interdisciplinary center.

The conference aims to determine the state of the art in the field of economic theory of innovation and stimulate further work to better understand the innovation process. Delegates will explore the rate-limiting or critical steps at each stage of the process and then carefully evaluate how different factors influence the outcome. We will bring together leading economists, managers, research scientists, scientists involved in policy and funding, experts from tech transfer and R&D in industry as well as venture capitalists. This unique event comprises extensive plenary sessions, ample time for discussion during round-table sessions and opportunities for interdisciplinary networking.

The conference will host 19 plenary lectures with international speakers from various prestigious institutions such as Prof. Venki Ramakrishnan, 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Group Leader of the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge and President of the Royal Society, UK or Prof. Maria Leptin, EMBO Director, Prof. Dietmar Harhoff, Director Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition and Prof. Marie Thursby, Georgia Institute of Technology.

Please visit the website of the conference to discover the outstanding list of speakers and the programme : https://theeconomicsofinnovation.org/ (flyer)

Registration deadline : June 15, 2017.

Participants will be admitted upon selection with a maximum of 60 participants total.

Registration includes (1) the conference fee, (2) 2 nights’ accommodation, (3) meals and coffee breaks and transportation during the event between the hotel, conference venue and restaurants.

Help us spread the word and share the news about this Conference with your colleagues and network!

Best regards,
Prof. Howard Riezman
Director of the NCCR Chemical Biology

Dr. Phaedra Simitsek
COO of the NCCR Chemical Biology

Université de Genève
Quai Ernest-Ansermet 30
1211 Genève 4
T: + 41 ( 0)22.37.96.407

www.nccr-chembio.ch

26th French-Japanese Symposium on Medicinal and Fine Chemistry

26th French-Japanese Symposium on Medicinal and Fine Chemistry
17th-20th September 2017, Strasbourg, France
http://fjs2017.unistra.fr

This conference brings together industrial and academic researchers from both countries with an interest in all cutting-edge aspects of organic chemistry, from synthetic methodology to medicinal chemistry. Besides the lectures given by invited speakers, a poster session will be organized to give every participant an opportunity to present his/her work. Scientific excellence and friendly exchanges are two important pillars of the FJS.

Contact

Cellule Congrès Unistra
19 rue du Maréchal Lefebvre
67100 Strasbourg
Phone : 0033 3 68 85 49 40

Rates

Academic: 400 €
Industry: 550 €
Student: 200 €
Gala Diner: 60 €

Important Dates

January conference registration opens
June 15th deadline for submission of abstracts
July 15th deadline for registraJon

Website

http://fjs2017.unistra.fr

Save the date: 18th European Congress On Biotechnology, Geneva, 1-4 July, 2018

The European Congress on Biotechnology (ECB) is the leading congress for academic and industrial biotechnologists in Europe and is the flagship biennial event of the European Federation of Biotechnology (EFB). 

Geneva is a prime hub for Biotechnology with 350 active firms and 20 world class institutes with a focus on this discipline. Geneva is part of BioAlps, the fastest growing life science cluster in the world. The BioAlps cluster ranks among the first three European centres for research in biotechnology and medical technologies, alongside Cambridge and Oxford in the United Kingdom. Science magazine has called the Lake Geneva Region the “Number One cluster for life sciences research in continental Europe”.

Join us in Geneva in July 2018 to present your most recent work as part of EFB as the Voice of Biotechnology in Europe. 

Prof. Gerrit Borchard 
Chair of Scientific Committee

Website: http://www.ecb2018.com