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About the Workshop
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GLOBAL APPROACHES TO SMALL MOLECULE FUNCTION
How do drugs work? What molecular changes do they cause in cells and in organisms?
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Is there a paradigm shift in the way we can predict and appreciate the impact of small molecules on biological systems in the 21st century? |
The conference will explore the synergistic effects between post-genomic biology, chemistry and medicine. Our goal is to foster interactions between researchers of different backgrounds who have a common interest in understanding the effect of chemical compounds on biological systems. Chemical biology and molecular pharmacology are evolving towards each other as scientific disciplines and profit from powerful advances in postgenomic, imaging and bioinformatic technologies. Concurrently, diseases are being better characterized at a molecular level and the genetic basis for differential response of patients to therapeutics is being investigated. Because of rapid developments in each discipline, it has become possible to conceive of new ways to approach the chemical-organism interface.
We will highlight advances in chemical genetics and genomics, proteomics, mechanism-of-action studies, phenomics, in silico drug discovery and systems biology. In order to share experiences from a variety of perspectives, we have invited prominent international researchers from both academia and the pharma/biotech industry. The conference will include extensive discussion time in addition to presentations and poster sessions.