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SCREENING AGAINST MULTIPLE TARGETS
(Shared session with Drug Repositioning Summit)

Featured Presentation
Is Repositioning a Viable Option for Creating Differentiated Medicines?

Lee E. Babiss, Ph.D., Vice President, Preclinical R&D, F. Hoffmann-La Roche Inc.

Automated Robotic Molecular Profiling in Cells for New Therapeutic Directions
Jeremy S. Caldwell, Ph.D., Director of Molecular and Cell Biology, Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation

An Efficient Platform for Genetic Target and Compound Positioning
David Grass, Ph.D, Vice President, Scientific Operations, Caliper Discovery Alliances and Services, Caliper Life Sciences

Broad-Scale in Vitro Pharmacology Profiling to Predict Clinical Adverse Effects and for ADME Profiling
Laszlo Urban, Ph.D., Executive Director, Preclinical Profiling Group, Novartis Institute for Biomedical Research (invited)

Ceftriaxone and Results of Large Scale Screening Efforts
Jill Heemskerk, Ph.D., Extramural Research Program Neuroscience, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke

Panel Discussion: How to Choose a Compound with the Best Profile

LINKING CHEMICAL STRUCTURE TO
BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY FOR PRIORITIZING HITS

Rethinking Similarity & the Chemotype Concept: Using Biological Fingerprints as a More Relevant Descriptor
Jonathan Mason, Ph.D., Divisional Director, Early Lead Generation and Computational Chemistry, Lundbeck Research DK (Denmark)

Linking Chemical Structure Data to Biological Activity and Clinical Information
Tudor I. Oprea, Ph.D., Professor & Chief, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Biocomputing, University of New Mexic
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Mark Murcko, Ph.D., Vice President and Chief Technical Officer, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Prioritizing Hits from Phenotypic Assays Using Biochemical Profiling Data
Jeffrey J. Sutherland, Ph.D., Computational Scientist, Discovery Informatics, Lilly Indianapolis

Molecular Profiling Driven Drug Discovery: Use of Compound Profiling from Discovery to the Clinic and Back Again
Stephen Horrigan, Ph.D., Vice President of Research, Avalon Pharmaceuticals

Panel Discussion: The Value of Doing Systems Biology after HTS
Moderator: Mark Murcko, Ph.D.
Additional Panelist:
Berta Strulovici, Ph.D., Research Vice President, Automated Biotechnology, Merck Research Laboratories

  • How to use model systems coupled with multiparametric assays
  • Do systems biology assay data extrapolate well to humans?
  • What is the best order to do assays, parallel vs. sequential?
  • How predictive are the results?
  • What have people learned?

PROFILING TO PREDICT ADVERSE
EVENTS AND OFF-TARGET ACTIVITY

Differentiating Leads from Candidates
Dana A. Vanderwall, Ph.D., Structural Chemistry, GlaxoSmithKline

Analysis of Drug Induced Effect Patterns for Investigating Systems Structure Effect Relationships
William T. Loging, Ph.D., Principal Scientist, Medicinal Sciences, Pfizer Global R&D Groton Labs

Characterizing the Multiple Activities of Kinase Inhibitors
Petra Ross-Macdonald, Ph.D., Senior Research Investigator, Applied Genomics, Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.

Chemogenomics Strategies for GPCR Hit Finding
Wolfgang Guba, F. Hoffmann-La Roche, Inc.

Compound Profiling by Predicting On-Target Activities, Compound Promiscuity and Adverse Drug Reactions
Andreas Bender, Ph.D., Lead Discovery Informatics, Center for Proteomic Chemistry, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Inc.

Interpreting Compound Profiles in the Context of the Human Drug Experience
Jacques Migeon, Ph.D., Senior Scientist, BioPrint, CEREP Inc.

Panel Discussion: Comparing and Contrasting Available Databases, Public vs. Private

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