BMCS/SMR Recent Trends in Medicinal Chemistry and Enabling Technologies
Event
Recent Trends in Medicinal Chemistry and Enabling Technologies
Burlington House, Picadilly, London, W1J 0BQ
Dates
Wednesday 2nd December, 2026
Important links
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Overview
On the 2nd December 2026, the Society for Medicines Research and the Biological and Medicinal Chemistry Sector of the Royal Society of Chemistry will be jointly hosting a 1-day meeting in London on Recent Trends in Medicinal Chemistry and Enabling Technologies. The programme will cover a combination of medicinal chemistry, drug discovery enabling technologies and chemical biology.
With confirmed speakers from AstraZeneca, Domainex, GSK, Molecular Horizon, OpenADMET, Pharmaron, Sygnature Discovery and the University of Leiden, the meeting will reflect the breadth of work taking place to advance our understanding and prosecution of targets, technologies and lead series to underpin medicines research. .
Confirmed speakers are:
- Dr Pat Walters, Chief Scientist, OpenADMET
OpenADMET: Accelerating Drug Discovery Through Open Data, Rigorous Benchmarking, and Community Blind Challenges - Dr James Smith, Associate Director, AstraZeneca
Title TBC - Dr Sam Rowe, Principal Scientist, Chemical Biology, GSK
Direct-to-Biology for WRN-Targeted Covalent Hit Identification and Optimisation - Dr Jim Reid, Senior Principal Scientist, Domainex
Advances in Targeting Membrane-Bound Proteins for Drug Discovery - Dr Jenny Borthwick, Director Medicinal Chemistry, Pharmaron
Title TBC - Dr Stephan Hacker, Assistant Professor, Leiden University
Towards Covalent Inhibitors Addressing Diverse Amino Acids - Dr Lorna Duffy, Associate Director, Sygnature Discovery
Title TBC - Dr Lydia Siragusa, Senior Scientist, Molecular Horizon
Exploring Ligandable Space Through Pocketome Annotation: Applications in Target Discovery
To visit the main conference website, please click here
Registration now open
Fees:
| £125.00 | SMR member rate | |
| £125.00 | BMCS member rate (using code – see below) | |
| £190.00 | Non-member rate |
RSC members should use the code BMCSDEC26 to benefit from the reduced registration rate.