RICT 2010 - Interfacing Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery
30/06/2010
Target Selection: Hit to Lead: Identification, development
08:00Registration
09:30Opening
Session Chair
Prof. André TARTAR
(UNIVERSITY LILLE 2, Lille, France)
10:00Vascular Tumor Targeting
Prof. Dario NERI
(ETH ZÜRICH, Zürich, Switzerland)
10:45Coffee Break
Session Chair
Dr Marcel HIBERT
(FACULTE DE PHARMACIE, Illkirch, France)
11:15Novel Antagonists of Protease Activated Receptors 1: Unusual GPCRs Implicated in Cardiovascular Diseases
Dr Michel PEREZ
(PIERRE FABRE, Toulouse, France)
12:00Identification of Functionally Selective Alpha2C-AR Agonists as Potential New Drugs for Treatment of Pain
Dr Eric JNOFF
(UCB PHARMA SA, Braine-l'Alleud, Belgium)
12:45Lunch and Poster Session
Session Chair
Dr. Robert H. DODD
(ICSN CNRS, Gif-Sur-Yvette, France)
14:15Pyrrolopyrimidine-Based P2X3 Antagonists for the Treatment of Pain
Dr Louis-David CANTIN
(ASTRAZENECA R&D, Montréal, Canada)
15:00Binding of the Macrocyclic Noncovalent Inhibitor TMC435 to its HCV NS3/NS4A Protease Target
Dr Max CUMMINGS
(TIBOTEC, Mechelen, Belgium)
15:45Coffee Break and Poster Session
Session Chair
Dr Luc VAN HIJFTE
(JANSSEN RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT, Illkirch, France)
16:30Indole-carboxylic Acid Amides as Novel CETP Inhibitors: From Hit to Clinical Candidate and Beyond
Dr Philippe PFLIEGER
(F. HOFFMANN-LA ROCHE LTD, Basel, Switzerland)
17:15Inhibitors of PKC-beta and GSK-3beta: A Tale of Two Kinases
Dr Bruce MARYANOFF
(SCRIPPS, San Diego, United States)
18:30Cocktail and Poster Session (Faculty of Pharmacy)
01/07/2010
Section A
Synthetic Chemistry: new frontiers impacting drug discovery
Section B
Screening, managing structure-properties relationship
Session Chair
Dr Maurice MEDEBIELLE
(UNIVERSITÉ CLAUDE BERNARD LYON 1, Villeurbanne, France)
09:00Hybrids Natural Products with Neurotrophin Activity
Dr Bruno FIGADERE
(UNIVERSITÉ PARIS-SUD, Chatenay-Malabry, France)
09:45Two Stimulating Concepts in Natural Substances Synthesis: the NEO Cascade and the CIM Strategy
Prof. Arnaud HAUDRECHY
(UNIVERSITE DE REIMS CHAMPAGNE-ARDENNE, Reims, France)
10:30Coffee Break
Session Chair
Dr Pascal GEORGE
(SANOFI-AVENTIS R&D, Longvilliers, France)
11:00New Methods for Peptide Synthesis
Prof. David CRICH
(ICSN, Gif-sur-Yvette, France)
11:45Peptidomimetic Foldamers: Connecting Structure to Function
Dr Gilles GUICHARD
(THE EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY AND BIOLOGY (IECB), Pessac, France)
12:30Lunch and Poster Session
Session Chair
Dr Bruno FIGADERE
(UNIVERSITÉ PARIS-SUD, Chatenay-Malabry, France)
14:00Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients in Convergent Technologies: How Are They Chosen
Dr Cynthia MARYANOFF
(CORDIS, A JOHNSON AND JOHNSON COMPANY, Spring House, United States)
14:45Fragment-based Design of Small RNA Binders
Dr Laurent MICOUIN
(UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES, Paris, France)
Session Chair
Prof. Hervé GALONS
(SCT & PARIS DESCARTES UNIVERSITY, Paris, France)
09:00Carbonic Anhydrases: Novel Therapeutic Applications for Inhibitors and Activators
Prof. Claudiu SUPURAN
(UNIVERSITY OF FIRENZE, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy)
09:45Prodrug Approaches for Enhancing the Bioavailability of Drugs
Prof. Christa MÜLLER
(UNIVERSITY OF BONN, Bonn, Germany)
10:30Coffee Break
Session Chair
Dr Philippe PITCHEN
(FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE, Hauppauge, United States)
11:00Functional Assays as Multifaceted Tools for HTS
Dr Olivier NOSJEAN
(SERVIER RESEARCH INSTITUTE, Croissy-sur-Seine, France)
11:45Virtual Screening in Drug Discovery: Overview and Applications
Dr Romano KROEMER
(SANOFI AVENTIS, Vitry sur Seine, France)
12:30Lunch and Poster Session
Session Chair
Prof. Olivier DUVAL
(UNIVERSITÉ D'ANGERS, Angers, France)
14:00Topically Bioavailable and Systemically Safe PPARγ Agonists as Sebum Modulators
Dr Jean-Guy BOITEAU
(GALDERMA R&D, Sophia-Antipolis, France)
14:45Novel Compound Classes as Calcilytics for the Treatment of Osteoporosis
Dr Leo WIDLER
(NOVARTIS, Basel, Switzerland)
Session Chair
Prof. Dario NERI
(ETH ZÜRICH, Zürich, Switzerland)
16:00Sugars and Proteins
Prof. Ben DAVIS
(OXFORD UNIVERSITY, Oxford, United Kingdom)
16:45End of Conference
17:15Departure by bus to visit the “Taittinger wine cellars” (for pre-registrated participants)
17:30Visit of "Caves Taittinger"
20:00Banquet
20:00Banquet in the “Demeure des Comtes de Champagne” (18-22 rue de Tambour, 511100 Reims, near the City Hall)
In parallel:
14:00-15:30 - JOB Forum
Dr Patrick PLE (ASTRA ZENECA, Reims, France)
Dr Laurent JEANNIN (SOLVAY, Belgium)
Mr Térence BEGHYN (UNIVERSITY LILLE 2, Lille, France)
02/07/2010
Case-Studies from Bench to Bedside
Session Chair
Dr Edmond DIFFERDING
(DIFFERDING CONSULTING, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium)
09:00The First NO- and Heam-independent Activator of Soluble Guanylate Cyclase for the IV Treatment of Acute Heart Failure
Dr Michael G. HAHN
(BAYER HEALTHCARE, Wuppertal, Germany)
09:45A Single Synthetic Peptide for Immunomodulating Lupus, a Complex Autoimmune Disease
Dr Sylviane MULLER
(IBMC-CNRS, Strasbourg, France)
10:30Coffee Break
Session Chair
Dr Dominique LESUISSE
(SANOFI AVENTIS, Chilly-Mazarin, France)
11:00The Identification of Selective p38 MAPK Inhibitors with High Blood Potency Suitable for Clinical Development: The Discovery of Losmapimod
Dr Vipul K. PATEL
(GLAXOSMITHKLINE, Stevenage, United Kingdom)
11:45Telbivudine, a Potent and Specific Anti-HBV Nucleoside Analogue: From the Bench to its Marketing Approvals (Tyzeka®, Sebivo®)
Dr Gilles GOSSELIN
(IDENIX SARL, Montpellier, France)
12:30Discovery of Inhibitors of MAPKAPK5, a Novel Target for Rheumatoid Arthritis
Dr Martin ANDREWS
(GALAPAGOS NV, Mechelen, Belgium)
13:15Conclusions
End of the Symposium
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