The European Laboratory Analysis & Innovation Group (ELRIG) UK as we speak introduced the keynote audio system for Drug Discovery 2023, happening on the ACC in Liverpool from 18-19 October. Prof Janet Hemingway CBE, FRS, Founding Director of An infection Innovation Consortium (iiCON), and Dr Dave Powell, Chief Scientific Officer (CSO) of LifeArc will lead this 12 months’s occasion specializing in numerous considering and new views.
Sanj Kumar, CEO, ELRIG UK. Picture Credit score: ELRIG UK
The group’s free-to-attend, flagship convention will cowl a variety of themes from ‘omics, and personalised drugs to chemistry; all centered on bringing new therapies from the lab to the affected person.
Janet Hemingway is Professor of Tropical Medication on the Liverpool Faculty of Tropical Medication (LSTM) and the Founding Director of iiCON, a collaborative £230 million program bringing collectively educational, business and scientific companions to assist remodel the invention and provide of anti-infectives and speed up their journey to market. She is a senior technical advisor on Uncared for Tropical Ailments for the Invoice and Melinda Gates Basis and has been PI on tasks in extra of £370 million. Prof Hemingway was Director of LSTM from 2001 to 2019 and she or he was awarded a CBE for companies to the Management of Tropical Illness Vectors in 2012.
Dave Powell joined LifeArc as CSO in 2022 as the following step in his 25 years in R&D. Previous to this he led the preclinical drug discovery and the part III antibiotic analysis program at Summit Therapeutics. Dr Powell started his life sciences profession at SmithKline Beecham (now GSK), gaining deep platform and challenge expertise throughout quite a few therapeutic areas, together with neurosciences, oncology, and infectious illness. He additionally helped to start out after which led the collaboration between GSK and the Francis Crick Institute in London.
Drug Discovery 2023 will embody shows from leaders of their fields, a commerce present and exhibition, a poster competitors, tech theaters centered on robotics and automation, and sustainability practices, a bunch of networking alternatives and a studying zone for early profession professionals.
The convention will run 4 parallel periods every day centered on: mobile applied sciences for drug discovery, reworking most cancers drug discovery by way of numerous considering and improvements, delving into the range of chemistry, driving molecules from idea to clinic, augmenting R&D with AI, biopharmaceutical discovery, translating concepts into therapies, hit identification and screening, and chemistry enabling drug discovery from begin to clinic.
ELRIG is devoted to delivering nice scientific content material with range and inclusivity in-built, and the caliber of talks at this 12 months’s occasion are testomony to that. The keynote audio system are such influential and extremely revered scientists of their respective fields. We’re delighted to have them lead the scientific program at Drug Discovery 2023 and help us in driving collaboration throughout the scientific group as we proceed to develop our numerous community.”
Sanj Kumar, CEO, ELRIG UK.
It is an honor to be presenting at this 12 months’s Drug Discovery occasion in Liverpool. I stay up for connecting with thought leaders, sharing insights, and gaining new views on key areas of significance within the subject and future instructions for novel therapeutics.”
Professor Janet Hemingway, Founding Director, iiCON.
I am keen about discovery innovation but in addition about how we are able to prepare and put together the following technology of drug discovery scientists. So, I am proud to be presenting at ELRIG’s flagship occasion this 12 months the place new concepts and expertise are all the time to the fore, however importantly ELRIG Drug Discovery is a extremely approachable convention for our youthful colleagues as nicely.”
Dr Dave Powell, CSO, LifeArc.
For a full itemizing of audio system and periods, to register or e book at an exhibition stand, please go to: https://www.elrig.org/portfolio/drug-discovery-2023/
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European Laboratory Analysis & Innovation Group (ELRIG)
