Drug Discovery Canada 2015 Program

Toronto Workshop

WHEN: Mon, 24. Aug. to Fri, 28. Aug. 2015
AT: Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto
144 College Street, Toronto
WHERE: Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 3M2

Neglected Diseases: Finding New Treatments by Combining Drug Design, System Biology, and Toxicity Predictions  

Round Tables and Working Discussions with Scientists Against Malaria and eChemInfo

Faculty of Pharmacy
University of Toronto
144 College St.
Toronto, Canada

24. August to 28. August 2015

MONDAY
24. August

Large Pod, Faculty of Pharmacy
10:00am to 1:00pm
1) Scientist Against Malaria, eChemInfo and Douglas Connect
2) Neglected Diseases
a. Ian Crandall (University of Toronto)
b. Raymond Hui (SGC/University of Toronto)
c. joining via GTM: Jürgen Bosch (Johns Hopkins University)
d. Alessandro Contini (University of Milan)
3) Computational methods in drug design, system biology, and toxicity predictions
a. Tim Dudgeon (Informatics Matters Ltd.)
b. Paul Hawkins (OpenEye)
c. joining via GTM: Nicolas Moitessier (McGill)
d. joining via GTM: Alessandro Di Domizio (Spilloproject, Milan)
e. Thomas Exner (Douglas Connect and University of Tübingen)
f. Barry Hardy (Douglas Connect)
2:00pm to 5:00pm
Round table with short presentations (chair: Thomas Exner)

TUESDAY
25. August

Large Pod, Faculty of Pharmacy
9:00am to 6:00pm
Working group “Software Tools”
A) Bring your own problems (chairs: Thomas Exner and Alessandro Contini)
B) Software infrastructure (chair: Tim Dudgeon)
1) Exploring new, emerging fields
2) Knowledge infrastructures
3) Interoperability drug design – bioinformatics – systems biology
9:00am to 12:00pm
Working group “Teaching Workshops” (chair: Barry Hardy)
1) Contemporary trends
2) Workshop activities in 2016
3) Topics covered and anticipated participants
4) Speaker lists for Milan and Toronto
5) Advertisement strategies

WEDNESDAY
26. August

Large Pod, Faculty of Pharmacy
9:00am to 6:00pm
Working group “Neglected Diseases” (chairs: Jürgen Bosch and Ian Crandall)
1) Linking experimental and computational approaches
2) Funding opportunities
3) Canadian-European cooperation
4) PhD training networks and postdoc fellowships (e.g. Marie-Curie International Fellowship)

THURSDAY
27. August

Large Pod, Faculty of Pharmacy
9:00am to 12:00pm
Working group “Translational Aspects” (chair: Raymond Hui)
How do we implement the research into real world practice?
9:00am to 6:00pm
Open house – discussions of specific aspects in smaller groups

FRIDAY
28. August

Large Pod, Faculty of Pharmacy
10:00am to 1:00pm:
Round table: Next steps (chair: Thomas Exner)