Chandigarh-based SelectBio is organising its 4th International
Conference and Exhibition Drug Discovery India 2016 on September 29-30
at Bengaluru. The theme of the conference is ‘Deriving Best out of
Chemistry, Biotechnology and Natural Products’.
The event aims
to expand knowledge by providing insights into the latest developments
and innovations in the field of drug discovery, medicinal chemistry,
natural products and chemical biology. Every year this event bring
together about 200 drug discovery scientists together at a platform to
discuss and share drug discovery related research and facilitates
collaborations amongst scientists from across the globe.
According
to the organisers, the conference would be useful to drug discovery
scientists, medicinal chemists, biotechnologists & researchers from
pharmaceutical industry R&D and academic institutions working in the
area of new drug discovery research, discovery and development of new
chemical entities, biomolecular screening technologies, drug target
identification, structure-based and target-based, drug design,
protein-protein interactions, drug repurposing, orphan drugs, chemical
biology, stem cell, epigenetics as well as natural products.
Some
of the key topics for presentation include chemical biology approaches
in drug discovery, current enabling technologies for accelerated drug
discovery, strategies for orphan drugs & drug repurposing, target
based approaches in medicinal chemistry and therapies for neglected
tropical diseases.
The speakers for the two-day event include
Prof. Ajay Rana, Endowed Professor, University of Illinois, Chicago,
USA, Prof. Ashwini Godbole, Senior Assistant Professor, Institute of
Transdisciplinary Health Sciences and Technology, Ashwinikumar Raut,
Director, Clinical Research Integrative Medicine, Kasturba Health
Society Medical Research Centre, Prof. Bhushan Patwardhan, Professor
& Director, ISHS, University of Pune, Danijel Kikelj Professor,
University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, Debendra Mohapatra, Principal
Scientist, CSIR- Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Deepak Barot
Director, In Vitro ADMET Laboratories, LLC, USA, Nagasuma Chandra
Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Science, Tapas Kundu,
Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Dr.
V Nagaraja, President, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific
Research among others.
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