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2024 Medicinal Chemistry Symposium: New Drugs on the Horizon
October 17, 2024 - 3:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Free – $35
October 2024 Medicinal Chemistry Symposium
Symposium: “New Drugs on the Horizon”
This meeting will be hosted by Bristol Myers Squibb in Cambridge, MA.
Registration is required and ends at 11:30 PM on Friday, October 11th, 2024.
Thursday – October 17th, 2024
Bristol Myers Squibb
250 Water St, Cambridge, MA 02141
3:00 pm Welcome
Raj Rajur, Medicinal Chemistry Program Chair
CreaGen, Woburn, MA
3:10 pm Introductory Remarks (Moderator)
Paul Scola
BMS, Cambridge, MA
3:15 pm – 4:00 pm Denise Grünenfelder, Ph.D.
BMS, Cambridge, MA
Title: “Discovery of BMS-986408: A dual inhibitor of Diacylglycerol kinases alpha and zeta for cancer therapy”
4:00 pm – 4:45 pm Ben Milgram, Ph.D.
Scorpion Therapeutics, Cambridge, MA
Title: “Discovery of STX-721, a Covalent, Potent, and Highly Mutant-Selective EGFR Exon20 Insertion Inhibitor for the Treatment of Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer”
4:45 pm – 5:00 pm Break
5:00 pm – 5:45 pm Kevin J. Filipski, Ph.D.
Pfizer, Cambridge, MA
Title: “PF-07328948, the first BDK inhibitor/degrader clinical candidate as a treatment for heart failure”
5:45 pm – 6:30 pm Robin Fairhurst, Ph.D.
Novartis, Basel, CH
Title: “Discovery of NVP-DFF332 as an Inhibitor of the Transcription Factor Hypoxia-Inducible Factor-2ALPHA (HIF-2α)”
7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Dinner
NESACS Med Chem Organizing Committee: Mark Ashwell; Brian. Aquila; Blaise Lippa; Andrew Scholte; Peter Fuller; Michelle Lamb; Silvana Leit; Melissa Grenier-Davies; Paul Scola; Lauren Monovich; Jason Beiger; Paul Greenspan; Raj Rajur
NESACS BOARD MEETING
The Board Meeting is tentatively scheduled from 4:30-5:30 PM.
PUBLIC IS INVITED
YOU MUST REGISTER IN ADVANCE TO ATTEND THE SYMPOSIUM.
If you will only attend the Symposium (3-6:30 pm), please select the free “meeting only” ticket.
If you will attend the Symposium and dinner or just the dinner, please select a dinner plus meeting ticket.
• Reservations should be made no later than 11:30 PM, Friday, October 11, 2024.
