|
Post-conference workshop at the JMMC '09 |
|
The CancerGRID consortium is organizing a post-conference sattelite workshop at the Joint Meeting on Medicinal Chemistry 2009.
This biannual meeting is one of the major European conferences on medicinal chemistry. The organizing committee of this meeting consists of the Organic and Medicinal Chemistry Division of the Hungarian Chemical Society, the Medicinal Chemistry Section of the Austrian Chemical Society, the Section of Synthetic Drugs of the Czech Pharmaceutical Society of CMA JEP, the Division of Medicinal Chemistry of the German Chemical Society, the Hellenic Society of Medicinal Chemistry, the Division of Medicinal Chemistry of the Italian Chemical Society, the Polish Society of Medicinal Chemistry, the Slovak Chemical Society and the Section for Medicinal Chemistry of the Slovenian Pharmaceutical Society.
|
|
Read more...
|
|
|
Grid aided computer system for rapid anti-cancer drug design: CancerGrid |
|
In the three years of this multidisciplinary research project, the 10-member, SME-led consortium plans to develop and refine methods for the enrichment of molecular libraries to facilitate discovery of potential anti-cancer agents. Using grid-aided computer technology, the likelihood of finding anti-cancer novel leads will substantially increase the translation of basic knowledge to application stage. In particular, through the interaction with novel technologies and biology, the R&D consortium aims at (i) developing focused libraries with a high content of anti-cancer leads; (ii) building models for prediction of disease-related cytotoxicity and of kinase/ HDAC/MMP and other enzyme (i.e. HSP90) inhibition or receptor antagonism using HTS results; (iii) developing a computer system based on grid technology, which helps to accelerate and automate the in silico design of libraries for drug discovery processes, and which is also suitable for future design of libraries for drug-discovery processes that have different biological targets (the result is a new marketable technology). |
|
Read more...
|
|
|
