1st Swedish Medicinal Chemistry Symposium

Discovering molecules able to cure disease is a major challenge for medicinal chemists and the drug discovery scientists in both academia and industry. Small molecule drug discovery has for the last decades delivered highly valuable drugs that helps improve lives of millions of patients. During the last decade there has been exciting developments in new approaches to identify, characterize and develop new compounds. There has also been an accelerating interest in drug discovery based on alternative modalities including macrocycles, peptides, and nucleotides.

We hereby invite you to participate in the 1st Swedish Medicinal Chemistry Symposium organized by the Swedish Pharmaceutical Society. The two-day meeting will focus on recent advances in Swedish drug discovery research with contributions from both academia and industry. The meeting also provides an excellent opportunity for networking.

At the Symposium, the 2017 Medicinal Chemistry prizewinner will be presented. The prize has been awarded since 1993, by the Medicinal Chemistry section of the Swedish Pharmaceutical Society, to a person(s) who has made significant contributions within the area of Medicinal Chemistry in Sweden. Most Welcome to join us in Stockholm!

Participation fee and Programme and Venue

Important to fill in the correct discount code at the registration form when register! 
If no discount code is registered the fee for Industry will be charged.

Participation fee		Discount code
Industry	3500 SEK
Academy	2500 SEK	A13012
PhD students and Postdocs	1800 SEK	S13012

All prices are excl. VAT


The agenda will include successful case studies, new opportunities in medicinal chemistry including alternative modalities, fragment based drug discovery, methods to target protein -protein interactions as well as new concepts in in silico based drug discovery.

Preliminary programme

Venue
The Swedish Pharmaceutical Society, Wallingatan 26A, Stockholm
Lecture hall: Biblioteket
Registration day 1: 08.45 hrs
Start day 1: 09.15 hrs
Closure day 1: 18.00 hrs

Confirmed speakers

Jens Carlsson, Uppsala Universitet; Ulf Göransson, Uppsala Universitet; Jan Kihlberg, Uppsala Universitet; Fredrik Rahm, SprintBioscience; Lena Ripa, AstraZeneca; Roger Strömberg, Karolinska Institutet; Johan Ulander, AstraZeneca; Erik Valeur, AstraZeneca; Jenny Viklund, SprintBioscience; Björn Walse, SARomics Biostructures and Fredrik Zetterberg, Galecto Biotech.

Exhibition

Information about exhibition

Confirmed Exhibitors:
Collaborative Drug Discovery
Chemoswed

Poster session

The symposium will include a poster session where attendees will be given an excellent opportunity to share their data and network with scientists from industry and academia. Based on submitted poster abstracts a few presenters will be offered to make an oral presentation of their work. The best presentation will be awarded a prize to participate and give a presentation at the 5th Young Medicinal Chemist Symposium (EFMC-YMCS 2018), This symposium is back-to-back with the EFMC-ISMC meeting in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Submit your abstract at the latest Aug 20 to jenny.hagberg@lakemedelsakademin.se

Posterabstract instruction
Example of posterabstract
Instruction for preparation of poster

Scholarship for PhD/postdoc students

IFs stiftelse för farmacevtisk forskning announces scholarships for PhD/postdoc students participating in 1st Swedish Medicinal Chemistry Symposium. More information at apotekarsocieteten.se

Organizing committee

Carl-Magnus Andersson, Chemoswed
Mikael Elofsson, Umeå universitet
Anna-Lena Gustavsson, Karolinska Institutet
Anders Karlén, Uppsala universitet
Åsa Rosenquist, Karolinska Institutet
Peter Sjö, AstraZeneca R&D

Who should attend?

This symposium is highly interesting for Drug Discovery Scientists who would like to learn and be inspired by the most recent trends in Drug Discovery presented by leading Swedish scientists.