EFMC-YMCS 2015

2nd EFMC Young Medicinal Chemists' Symposium

 Antwerp, Belgium    September 17, 2015

Programme


08:15

Coffee - Registration

08:50

Welcome and Opening

Keynote Lecture

08:55

We Urgently Need More Medicinal Chemists to Generate Novel Tools to Dissect Disease Biology, and New Drugs for Patients

Prof. Chas BOUNTRA
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, Oxford, United Kingdom

EFMC-YMCS Competition Presentation Session I

09:40

Innovative Oligourea Foldamers with Antimicrobial Effects : Application to Bacillus Anthracis Infection
Winner of the young medicinal chemist meeting in France

Ms Stéphanie ANTUNES
UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX, Pessac, France
10:00

Novel SAM Analogues for Sequence-Specific DNA Labeling
Winner of the young medicinal chemist meeting in Belgium (KVCV)

Ms Charlotte VRANKEN
KULEUVEN, Heverlee, Belgium
10:20

Finding Novel Treatments Against Neglected Parasitic Diseases Using Target Repurposing of Phosphodiesterases

Dr Ewald EDINK
VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM, Delft, The Netherlands
10:40

Coffee Break

EFMC-YMCS Competition Presentation Session II

11:05

Synthesis of Novel Pyrido[1,2-c]Pyrimidine Derivatives - 5-HT1A Receptors and Serotonin Transporter Ligands
Winner of the young medicinal chemist meeting in Poland

Ms Anna GOMOLKA
MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW, Warsaw, Poland
11:25

Development of Pharmacological Tools to Explore the Orphan G Protein-coupled Receptor GPR35
Winner of the young medicinal chemist meeting in Germany

Dr Dominik THIMM
UNIVERSITÄT BONN, Bonn, Germany
11:45

Binding Kinetics at the GnRH Receptor - A Comparison of Three Different Assays
Winner of the young medicinal chemist meeting in The Netherlands

Ms Indira NEDERPELT
UNIVERSITY OF LEIDEN, Leiden, The Netherlands
12:05

Photoisomerizable Phenylazopyridines Enable the Control of Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor Subtpe 5 Activity with Light

Mr Xavier GÓMEZ-SANTACANA
INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED CHEMISTRY OF CATALONIA - CSIC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Flash Poster Presentations

Dr Filipe ELVAS
UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP, Wilrijk, Belgium
Dr Bhatia SUMATI
FREE UNIVERSITY OF BERLIN, Berlin, Germany
Dr Kuntarat ARUNRUNGVICHIAN
MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY, Bangkok, Thailand
Ms Ramatoulie CAMARA
UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE, Hatfield, United Kingdom
Dr Rafaela GLADYSZ
UANTWERP, Antwerpen, Belgium
Mr Marton VASS
VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT AMSTERDAM, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Ms Leticia MONJAS GOMEZ
UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN, Groningen, The Netherlands
Dr Andrea PINTO
UNIVERSITY OF MILAN, Milan, Italy
Mr Maciej ROGACKI
UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP, Antwerp, Belgium
Dr Stefano SAINAS
UNIVERSITY OF TORINO, Torino, Italy
Prof. Dmitry TSVELIKHOVSKY
THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM, Jerusalem, Israel
Ms Hannah WAPENAAR
RIJKSUNIVERSITEIT GRONINGEN, Groningen, The Netherlands
Dr Thomas STORR
UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM, Nottingham, United Kingdom
Dr Tina RITSCHEL
CMBI 260 / RADBOUDUMC, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Ms Anne FRANK
FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN, Berlin, Germany
Mr Edwin KROON
UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN, Groningen, The Netherlands
Mr Girdhar SINGH DEORA
THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND, Australia
Dr Irene GARCIA SALADO
UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP, Antwerpen, Belgium
Ms Leena KEURULAINEN
UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI, Helsinki, Finland
Ms Natalie THEODOULOU
GLAXOSMITHKLINE, Stevenage, United Kingdom
13:05

EFMC-YMCS Poster Session and Lunch

EFMC-YMCS Competition Presentation Session III

15:05

Cathepsin B Inhibitors Impair the Processes of Tumour Progression
Winner of the young medicinal chemist meeting in Slovenia

Dr Izidor SOSIC
UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA, Ljubljana, Slovenia
15:25

SWI/SNF Bromodomain Inhibitor Development and Testing in SWI/SNF Mutant Cancers
Winner of the young medicinal chemist meeting in the United Kingdom

Ms Charlotte SUTHERELL
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, Cambridge, United Kingdom
15:45

Nortopsentin Analogues with Potent Activity against Diffuse Malignant Peritoneal Mesothelioma (DMPM)
Winner of the young medicinal chemist meetings in Italy

Mrs Barbara PARRINO
UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO (1), PALERMO , Italy
16:05

2-(4΄-Aminophenyl)Benzothiazole Derivatives As Pharmacophores In Tricarbonyl M(Co)3+ (M = Re, 99mtc) Complexes For Tumor Diagnosis And Therapy
Winner of the young medicinal chemist meeting in Greece

Mr Alexandros STOURAITIS
NCSR DEMOKRITOS, Athens, Greece
16:25

Coffee Break

EFMC-YMCS Competition Presentation Session IV

16:40

Iminoboronates as a Novel Bioconjugation Method
Winner of the young medicinal chemist meeting in Portugal

Dr Pedro CAL
UNIVERSITY OF LISBON, Lisboa, Portugal
17:00

Novel CF3-Containing Pyrrolidones as Amidine-based BACE1 Inhibitors
Winner of the young medicinal chemist meeting in Spain

Mrs Myriam CIORDIA JIMENEZ
UNIVERSIDAD CEU SAN PABLO, Madrid, Spain
17:20

Playing Properties Right in the CD38 FBDD Programme: Small Changes Produced Significant Shifts in Property profiles

Mr Ben WHITEHURST
GLAXOSMITHKLINE, Stevenage, United Kingdom
17:40

Networking Break

17:55

Closing and Award Ceremony

18:15

EFMC-YMCS Networking and Drinks