Invited Speakers

Irena Adkins

VRG Therapeutics, Budapest, Hungary

Drug Development: From Target Validation to First-in-Human Studies

Roberto F. Alvarez

i&I Prague, Czech Republic

Technology transfer system of IOCB – how to build a start-up

Stephan Bachmann

F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd., Basel, Switzerland

Scale-Up of Organometallic Flow Chemistry - A Highly Atroposelective Negishi Coupling Enables the Commercial Manufacturing Process of Divarasib

Haim Barr

Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

The role of diversified platforms in academic drug discovery

Miklos Bekes

Arvinas Inc., New Haven, Connecticut, United States

PROTAC targeted protein degraders – the future is now

Filip Doušek

Theorema AI, Czech Republic

Causal disease modelling

Zdeněk Hostomský

IOCB Prague, Czech Republic

Development of PARP inhibitors - A case study

Shea Johnson

AbbVie, Ludwigshafen, Germany

TBD

Gabriela Koifman

Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Gene Amplification Evolution as a Mechanism of Cancer Adaptation and Drug Resistance in Patient-Derived Organoids

Valery Krizhanovsky

Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Senescent cells: where to find them and how to deal with them

Donna Matzov

Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Single-Particle Cryo-EM in GPCR Drug Discovery: Methodology and Case Studies

Chris Meier

University of Hamburg, Department of Chemistry
Institute of Organic Chemistry, Germany

Enzyme- or photocleavable masking for the intracellular delivery of bioactive highly phosphorylated nucleotides

Luke Piggott

Debiopharm, Lausanne, Switzerland

TBD

Katarína Pšenáková

PharmTheon, Czech Republic

Beyond the Bench - Building Therapies That Matter

Neta Regev-Rudzki

Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Cell-communication in malaria: the parasite’s social media network

Menachem Rubinstein

Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Bispecific VSV-G Engagers: A Platform for Targeted in vivo Gene Delivery

David Stíbal

i&I Prague, Czech Republic

Technology transfer system of IOCB – how to build a start-up

Yosef Yarden

Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Mechanisms of resistance to anti-cancer kinase inhibitors

Eliane Hadas Yardeni

Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

GPCRs through the Ligand Lens: Exploring Dopamine Receptor Pharmacology

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