Subject: Announcement : e-Drug Discovery Symposium

From: "Sung Kwang Lee" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 19:16:13 +0900

Dear colleague, 

 We are pleased to announce an exciting symposium titled e-drug discovery 
symposium to be held at the education & culture center in Seoul, Korea, 
May 20-23, 2003.
 
 This symposium will give you an opportunity to hear from the leading industry 
and academic researchers of in-silico drug discovery fields such as 
Cheminformatics , Virtual Screening, ADME/Tox., and Physiome when they 
convene in Seoul to present the latest research advances in in-silico technologies.

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E-DRUG DISCOVERY SYMPOSIUM

20-23 May 2003

EDUCATION & CULTURE CENTER, SEOUL, KOREA

Organized by Bioinformatics & Molecular Design Research Center (BMDRC)

http://drug.bmdrc.org

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TOPICS INCLUDE:
 - Cheminformatics 
 - Virtual Screening 
 - ADME/Tox 
 - Physiome

INVITED SPEAKERS INCLUDE:
  [Cheminformatics]
       Prof. Peter C. Jurs, The Pennsylvania state University, USA 
            - Building Robust and Predictive QSAR Models
       Prof. Johann Gasteiger, Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg, Germany 
            - The Representation of Molecules in Drug Design 
       Dr. Osman Guner, Accelrys, USA
            - Recent Developments in Structure-Based Pharmacophore Design 
       Prof. Haruki Nakamura, Osaka University, Japan
            - Protein Informatics: Database Analyses and Simulations 
               using Grid Technology towards Structure-Based Drug Design
       Prof. Christopher J. Cramer, University of Minnesota, 
         Minneapolis-St. Paul Institute of Technology, USA
            - Predicting Solvation Effects and Their Potential Impact on Drug Design
       Prof. Kyoung Tai No, BMDRC, Korea 
            - Development of Molecular Descriptors by taking into account 
               It's Environments and their Applications
       Prof. Kimito Funatsu, Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan
            - Application of novel molecular alignment method 
               using Hopfield Neural Network to 3D-QSAR
  [Virtual Screening]
       Prof. Eugene I. Shaknovich, Harvard University, USA 
             - CombiSMoG: from knowledge-based potentials to combinatorial drug design pipeline
       Prof. Hiroshi Chuman, The University of Tokushima, Japan
             - Platform Architecture for Drug Discovery by GRID Technology : 
               Combinatorial Computing and Integrated DB for Drug Design
       Prof. Brian K. Shoichet, Northwestern University, USA
             - Model Systems for Molecular Docking
       Dr. Sun Choi, Tripos, Inc., USA 
             - Application of Topomer CoMFA® and ChemSpace® Technology in Drug Discovery
       Dr. Sven Grueneberg, Aventis, Germany
             - Virtual screening: a structure-based strategy with experimental confirmation 
       Dr. Jae-Min Shin, IDR, Inc, Korea
             - IDPharmo: An Efficient Virtual Screening System for New Lead Compounds Discovery
       Dr. Ky-Youb Nam, BMDRC, Korea 
             - Validation for Virtual Screening Tools and It’s Applications in BMD TIC
  [ADME/Tox]
       Dr. Jean-Pierre Kocher, Camitro Discovery, USA 
             - Computational Solutions to ADMET and Drug Design
       Dr. Sung Kwang Lee, BMDRC, Korea
             - PreADME methods for the Prediction of ADME Drug Properties : the Present and Future
       Prof. Vladimir V. Poroikov, V. N. Orekhovich Inst. of Biomed. Chem. RAMS, Russia 
             - Virtual Screening of Lead Compounds: Affinity and pharmacokinetic property integration
       Prof. Tudor I. Oprea, University of NewMexico, USA 
             - Virtual Screening of Lead Compounds: Affinity and pharmacokinetic property integration
  [Physiome]
       Prof. Yung E. Earm, Seoul National University, Korea
             - Heart Cell Physiome
       Dr. Martyn Nash, Auckland University, New Zealand
             - Electro-mechanics modelling of the heart
       Prof. Hiroko Kitaoka, Osaka University, Japan
             - In silico Human study in Osaka-Kobe, Japan
  [Supporters Presentation/Special Lectures]
       Dr. Timothy Mattson, Intel
             - Information Technology for Drug discovery and Life Sciences
       Mr. Satish Tyagi, Schroder ventures Life science, USA
             - Venture Capital Trends & Challenges in Lift Science
       Mr. Gordon V. Ramseier, Sage Group Inc., USA
             - Lereragig Your Technology Through Licensing & Alliances
       Dr. Farhana Nakhooda, IBM
             - Information-based medicine
       Mr. Sung-Soo Kim, HP

SPONSOR 
 - Ministry of Comerce, Industry and Energy 
 - Ministry of Science & Technology, The Center for Biological Modulators
 - Korean Institute of Science and Technology Information
 - Korean Institute of Science and Technology Information 
 - Korea Drug Research Association 
 - Intel Korea, HP Korea, IBM Korea, 
 - Accelrys Korea, T&J Tech (Tripos Product Korea distributor) 
 - BITEK Chems Inc. (MDL Product Korea distributor) 

POSTER SESSIONS : May 22 and 23.
TUTORIAL : May 23 ( Accelrys, Tripos, MDL product)
 Join us for this symposium and an evening reception where you can meet 

with colleagues and speakers. 
More information and registration form can be obtained: 

   - http://drug.bmdrc.org 
     Please register electronically using a web browser if possible. 

Thanks and see you in Seoul, Korea !

Sung Kwang Lee

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 Sung Kwang Lee, Ph.D.

  Head of Chem & Bioinformatics S/W development Div.   
  Bioinformatics & Molecular Design Research Center (BMDRC) 
  Seoul, Korea 
  BMDRC homepage : http://www.bmdrc.org
  E-mail: [email-masked]
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How can we predict ADME properties by WWW ? 
PreADME : Web-based ADME prediction program (free of charge)
http://camd.ssu.ac.kr/adme 
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