High throughput techniques have revolutionised the drug discovery process and are widely used in medicinal chemistry to speed the development of new and higher quality drug candidates. The scientific programme of the "High Throughput Medicinal Chemistry" meeting will include presentations on computational tools, purification of small organic molecules, ADME , fragment based design and case studies from GlaxoSmithKline, AstraZeneca and Merck Sharpe and Dohme.

Date:	1st May 2007
Location:	SC1 auditorium, GlaxoSmithKline, Harlow
Application and Fees:	RSC Members - £112.00, Non RSC Members - £153.00
For Further Information:	Please contact Michele Sahrle.

	09:00 Registration and Coffee 09:50 Introduction 10:00 Microwaves and Microreactors: New Faster Methods in Heterocyclic Chemistry Mark Bagley, Cardiff University 10:40 The Application of High Throughput Chemistry in Discovery Research: Hope, Hype and Reality Chris Hill, Organon 11:20 Asymmetric Catalysis: Simple and Easy! Prof. Carsten Bolm, RWTH, Aachen University, Aachen, Germany 12:00 Tour of High Throughput Chemistry Facility and lunch 13:15 The Use of Combinatorial and Parallel Synthesis for Lead Identification and Optimisation Brian McKittrick, Schering-Plough, NJ 13:55 Fragment based approaches to drug discovery John Reader, Sareum Ltd 14:35 Design of Novel Matrix Metalloprotease Inhibitors - Classical Structure Based Design Using High Throughput Techniques Ian Holmes, GSK 15:15 Tea and Coffee 15:40 Metalated Flatland Motifs for Pharmaceutical Research and Development Prof. Victor Snieckus, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada 16:20 The Changing Face of Chemistry in Drug Discovery David A Roberts, AstraZeneca 17:00 Close Meeting / Wine Reception 19:00 finish