May 24 - 30, 2009 - Certosa di Pontignano, Siena (Italy)

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VII EWDD, 2009
The University of Siena is pleased to announce the seventh edition of its unique Workshop for researchers from Universities and the Pharmaceutical Industry, to be held in Certosa di Pontignano, Siena, Italy, on May 24th – 30th 2009.

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: MARCH 31st, 2009

The Seventh European Workshop in Drug Design will allow 65 participating scientists to work closely with more than 20 leading researchers from both the drug industry and academic institutions to explore solutions to concrete problems encountered in the drug design and discovery process. As in the previous editions (for example IV EWDD, V EWDD and VI EWDD), the goal of the Workshop is to help participants to collect, interpret and use experimental data to design new drugs using new methods of molecular modelling in conjunction with synthetic feasibility concepts and metabolic pathways. Interaction of these studies with strategies adopted in the Pharmaceutical Industries, such as high-throughput screening, will be explored.

Confirmed lecturers include:

Jürgen Borlak, Fraunhofer Institute of Toxicology and Experimental Medicine, Germany
Charles L. Brooks III, University of Michigan, USA
Teresa Carlomagno, EMbl Heidelberg, Germany
Gabriele Cruciani, University of Perugia,  Italy
Gerhard F. Ecker, University of Wien, Austria
Eric Ennifar, University of Strasbourg, France
Johann Gasteiger, Molecular Network GmbH, Germany
William Jorgensen, Yale, USA
Hugo Kubinyi, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Thierry Langer, Prestwick Chemical Inc., France
Andrew R. Leach, GSK, UK
Antonio Macchiarulo, University of Perugia, Italy
Luciana Marinelli, University of Napoli, Italy
Garland Marshall, Washington University, USA
Marco Mor, University of Parma, Italy
Tudor I. Oprea, University of New Mexico, USA
Michele Parrinello, ETH, Switzerland
Maurizio Recanatini, University of Bologna, Italy
Ferran Sanz, University of Barcelona, Spain
Klaus-Jürgen Schleifer, BASF, Germany
Wolfgang Sippl, University of Halle, Germany
Alexander Tropsha, UNC Chapel Hill, USA
Anna Tsantili, University of Athens, Greece

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