In Silico Drug Discovery Conference

The In Silico Drug Discovery Conference combines the best of cutting-edge industry approaches with recent academic research for in silico drug discovery. Expert speakers, panelists, researchers, and product vendors will present state-of-the-art computer-aided drug design methods and case studies in a variety of formats. The conference is being hosted by the North Carolina Biotechnology Center in the Hamner Conference Center. It is appropriate for researchers, students, drug developers, tool vendors, business development professionals and biotechnology managers. An open exchange of information will be promoted. Topics include: - Computer-aided drug design (CADD) - Structural biology - Virtual screening methods - Systems biology considerations and target validation - QM/MM, molecular dynamics and free energy methods - Computational approaches for fragment based drug discovery - Automatic scaffold design and scaffold hopping - ADME/Tox prediction by computer - Filtering for druggable properties - Collaborative drug discovery and secure information sharing - Intellectual property issues arising from in silico discovery