Ladies and Gentlemen,
Prague–Weizmann School on Drug Discovery is organized by the University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague (www.uct-prague.eu), the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, (www.uochb.cz) and the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot (www.weizmann.ac.il).
The Summer School gives a broad overview on the advances in the drug discovery process, from primary research to the production process development.
Expert speakers from major international pharma and biotech companies as well as from academia will cover, among others, these areas:
- Target discovery
- Structure- and in silico-based drug design
- Medicinal chemistry
- Lead structure characterization
- Preclinical and clinical development
- Principles and examples of commercial drugs development cycle
- Intelectual property rights and patent law
The Summer school is intended mainly for PhD students and postdocs. The attendants are welcome to present their research in the form of poster presentations.
We are looking forward to welcoming you in Prague in September 2024 for the jubilee 10th Summer school.
Radek Cibulka, Martin Fusek and Petra Ménová
Local Organizing Committee
Keynote Speakers
Peter H. Seeberger
Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Iterfaces, Potsdam, Germany
Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany
Vaccines, antibody therapies and diagnostics based on synthetic carbohydrates
Stephan Bachmann
F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd.,
Basel, Switzerland
Catalytic applications in the scale-up of API processes
Frank Wagner
Charité, Berlin, Germany
A paradigm shift in early clinical trials
