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www.elrig.org Welcome to Drug Discovery 2019 As Scientific Program chairs it is our great pleasure to welcome you back to Liverpool for the 13th Annual ELRIG Drug Discovery event. Our organising committee and session chairs have been working hard since late 2018 and thanks to them we have again been able to assemble a world-class line up of scientific speakers. This year we have 8 thematic tracks over 2 days with over 50 invited speakers, over 100 posters and as always a sold out and vibrant exhibition hall. We encourage you to get to as much of the science as you possibly can and to take full advantage of the exhibitor’s expertise and knowledge to improve your own discovery sciences. The vendor presence at ELRIG ensures that these conferences are of minimal cost to attendees, so please show your appreciation by visiting the booths and asking as many probing and difficult questions of their technology as possible. With these questions they are better equipped to supply us with the tools of the future to make the next set of discoveries. We are sure there will be something for everyone at this year’s Drug Discovery. We have tried to reflect hot topics and trends in the Drug Discovery field in this year’s tracks and we invite our speakers to take a look back at the future. We aim to ponder on both how we have arrived at this exciting era of drug discovery and to look ahead to what the future may hold. We are also delighted to welcome sessions hosted by the British Pharmacological Society and Cancer Research UK, focusing on ion channels and oncology drug discovery respectively. We would again like to thank Rhona Bennett, Clare Cockerham, Sanj Kumar and Tara Shanks in the ELRIG office for their fantastic contribution in shepherding ourselves and the Program Chairs through the organising process. Without their help, together with the all the other volunteers, this meeting would not be possible. Finally, without you, the meeting delegate, we have nothing too. We thank you in advance for your participation and look forward to connecting with you over the next couple of days. As always, we welcome your feedback on how we can further improve the agenda to ensure the growth and success of ELRIG Drug Discovery for the future. Have fun in Liverpool and enjoy the opportunity to discuss emerging Science within a vibrant and collegiate environment! Chun-wa Chung Tim Hammonds Katy Kettleborough (GlaxoSmithKline) (Cancer Research UK) (LifeArc) A Message from the Chair of ELRIG, Steve Rees On behalf of ELRIG I would like to welcome you to the 13th Drug Discovery meeting and our return to Liverpool. During 2019 ELRIG has held four outstanding scientific events attracting over 1300 delegates. With the 1400 scientists expected to attend Drug Discovery this will be a record year for ELRIG in terms of meeting delegates and vendor exhibitions. Alongside this our networking events programme is now established in major science centres across the UK, and the Early Career Professional Work group has run a series of events to engage with, and support, junior scientists as they embark on their careers. We have an exciting scientific program in place for 2020. Following the success of our first meeting on CRISPR in Drug Discovery we will be revisiting this topic in March in Cambridge. For the first time our Research and Innovation meeting will be held in Oxford in April, we will be returning to Gothenburg for a Cell Therapy meeting in June and Stevenage for our Flow Cytometry and Imaging meeting in the autumn. Alongside this we look forward to returning to the ExCeL in London for Drug Discovery 2020 in October. The success of ELRIG is dependent upon the many volunteers who give their time freely to create our meetings and other events. Volunteers are supported by an outstanding ELRIG office team; Sanj Kumar, Tara Shanks, Rhona Bennett and Clare Cockerham. I would like to thank everyone involved in ELRIG for the work that they do for this organisation. Looking ahead to the next two days we have an outstanding scientific program to look forward too, together with our largest ever vendor exhibition. I would like to thank the science committee, session chairs, speakers, exhibitors and of course you for attending this meeting. As I have said before my challenge to all delegates is to learn something new, meet someone new and see something new to advance your research. Have a great few days! #ELRIG Drug Discovery 2019 Session Chairs Tuesday 5th November 2019 Wednesday 6th November 2019 Cellular Models of Disease Molecular and Cellular Imaging Paul Andrews Robert Vries Michael Hennig (University of Dundee) (Hubrecht Organoid (leadXpro) Technology) Chemical biology – re-defining target Biomarkers Strategies tractability and therapeutic class in Drug Discovery Marcus Bantscheff Satpal Virdee Sally Price Ian Pike (Cellzome) (University of Dundee) (Medicines Discovery (Ian Pike Consulting) Catapult) Big Data and Artificial Intelligence Hit Finding Strategies Ola Engkvist Hugo Ceulemans Philip Gribbon Rosemary Burke (AstraZeneca) (Jansen pharmaceuticals) (Fraunhofer IME (Institute of Cancer Screening Port) Research) Targeting Ion Channels for Drug Discovery Oncology Drug Discovery hosted by the British Pharmacological Society hosted by Cancer Research UK Sarah Nickolls David Kendall Graeme Walker Heather McKinnon (GlaxoSmithKline) (Pharmnovo) (Cancer Research UK (The Beatson Institute Manchester Institute) for Cancer Research) #ELRIG Plenary Keynote Speakers Dr. Mene Pangalos (AstraZeneca) “Turning science into medicine: Hot trends and the business landscape” Tuesday 5th November 2019: 09:15: Room 3A The future treatment for many of today’s diseases lies in discovering new biology, understanding and challenging scientific hypotheses, to develop novel therapies. Improving R&D productivity is critical to the success of drug discovery, with failure rates from pre-clinical development to launch often in excess of 90 percent. The advent of data science and artificial intelligence, coupled with ever more sophisticated platform technologies, such as dynamic multi-omics brings with it an expanding list of pathways and targets to pursue - and with-it new drug discovery challenges. Exploring novel drug modalities which complement existing strengths in small molecule and biologic platforms has the potential to open new therapeutic options, and to help us prosecute drug targets traditionally viewed as intractable. Over the past few years we have made significant progress across seven additional drug discovery platforms, complementing existing capabilities in chemistry and protein engineering. These include modified mRNA therapies, antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs), oligonucleotide conjugates, bicyclic peptides, proteolysis targeting chimeras (PROTACs), anticalins and CRISPR. By combining new technologies, focusing on medical understanding, challenging scientific hypotheses and driving strategic private and academic partnerships, we are making real progress in our ability to define and prosecute novel treatment approaches for a variety of difficult to treat diseases. Dr. Fiona Marshall (MSD) “Tackling diseases of ageing – the application of new approaches in drug discovery and development.” Wednesday 6th November 2019: 09:10: Room 3A Populations around the world are increasing in age and this is leading to a rise in the incidence of diseases associated with ageing. In particular, the number of people with neurodegenerative disease is placing a burden on families and healthcare systems. Despite many recent failures in developing treatments for dementia there is much hope for the future. New insights from genetics is increasing our understanding of key mechanisms underlying ageing and related diseases. Multiple therapeutic modalities are being evaluated to modulate genes and proteins involved in disease in human cell models. Finally, novel biomarkers and imaging techniques can be utilized to diagnose and stratify patients and to track the progression of disease. In combination these advances are set to alter future treatments for diseases of ageing. Industry Insider Presentation Dr. Melanie Lee (LifeArc) “Nurturing effective translation” Wednesday 6th November 2019: 10:20: Room 3A LifeArc has a 25-year legacy of collaborating with scientists, academics and industry on diagnostics and therapies, enhancing and protecting innovation, and advancing promising research. We have been enormously successful in these endeavours. But the world we deliver products into doesn’t stand still. Healthcare, science and technology are ever-changing, and this applies to translation as well. In the future, pharmaceutical companies will still need well prepared, validated therapeutic opportunities. But to be differentiated, the products will need to carry more information than they have in the past. Diagnostics will be able to identify much earlier those patients at likelihood of developing a condition. Advances in data analytics and genomic information will enable greater targeting of medicines to a sub-set of patients. How do we nurture effective translation as the world of digital informatics rapidly evolves? #ELRIG Information for Participants Registration Awards at Drug Discovery 2019 Registration will take place on the ground floor. Please ELRIG Early Career Professional Impact Award collect your name badge and event programme from the registration desk. 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