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PROGRAMME
Each workshop topic will be considered in terms of individual tasks and their inter-relationships within the discovery cycle. The major topics will be the following: ligand/structure based drug design, in silico ADME - Tox and metabolism, design and screening of virtual libraries, molecular modelling methodologies, cheminformatics/bioinformatics and synthetic feasibility. These topics will be covered by lectures in the mornings.
The goal of the afternoon working sessions is to create, using case studies, an environment that is similar to what happens inside pharmaceutical companies today. The participants will be divided into teams which will be led and coordinated by tutors who are research group leaders in their companies and Universities. Each teams will work through a different drug design case, emulating a real research team. The team's work will be focused on rational design and will include writing reports, project status reviews, and planning events of real-life research teams, as well as in-depth work with appropriate modelling software.
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