17th Winter Conference
on Medicinal & Bioorganic Chemistry

February 2 - 6, 2025

Steamboat Grand Resort, Colorado

Agenda

Sunday, February 2nd 2025

Drug Hunter Award Session

Program Chair: Jennifer Venable

Brian Lanman Amgen

Drug Hunter Award:
Evolving Strategies in Targeting KRAS

Renata Oballa Chinook Therapeutics

Discovery of CHK-336: A Liver-Targeted, Small Molecule Lactate Dehydrogenase Inhibitor for Hyperoxaluria Treatment

Fred Cohen Nurix

Discovery and Development of Clinical-stage Degraders of Bruton’s Tyrosine Kinase for the treatment of B cell Disorders

Nuria Diaz Eli Lilly

Discovery of Muvalaplin: the first oral molecule inhibitor of Lp(a) formation in Clinical Trials

Networking Session

Welcome Reception

Monday, February 3rd 2025

Modern Synthetic Toolbox and Technologies for Drug Discovery and Development

Program Chair: Ying Wang

Christina White University of Illinois

Chemical Tailoring at C—H Bonds

Eric Voight AbbVie

Synthesis Innovation in Drug Discovery

Mark Levin University of Chicago

Inserting, Deleting, and Replacing Atoms

Lisa Marcaurelle GSK

Recent Advances in DNA-Encoded Technology at GSK

Kian Tan Novartis

Living in Uncertainty: Application of Active Learning in Drug Discovery

Leveraging Chemically Induced Proximity in Drug Discovery

Program Chair: Kevin Freeman-Cook

Ryan Potts Amgen

Redefining Druggability with Induced Proximity Modalities

Kat Kayser-Bricker Halda

Hold and Kill: RIPTAC™ Therapeutics Present a Novel Induced-Proximity Mechanism to Conquer Cancer

Geoffray Leriche Plexium

Discovery of Orally Bioavailable SMARCA2-Selective Monovalent Degraders

Jackson Gartman AbbVie

The Hunt for Ligands for Tissue-Restricted Ligases

Jacob Edwards BMS

Cereblon Mediated Ligand Directed Degradation at Bristol Myers Squibb

Tuesday, February 4th 2025

Therapeutic Opportunities for Immune Modulators

Program Chair: Hanna Wisniewska

Steve Canham Novartis

Discovery of C-terminal and N-terminal binding STING agonists

Scott D. Edmondson Nimbus Therapeutics

Switching the Immune System Off and On Through Computationally Enabled Drug Discovery: The Discovery of TYK2 Inhibitor TAK-279 for Immune Disorders and HPK1 Inhibitor NDI-101150 for Cancer

Stephen Murphy Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine

Development of Non-alkynyl NIK Inhibitors

Daniel Smaltz Pfizer

Discovery and Optimization of a Series of MALT1 Inhibitors Using Structure-Based Drug Design and Parallel Medicinal Chemistry

Benjamin Horning Vividion

Redefining Selectivity in JAK1 Inhibition: The Case for Allosteric Modulators

General Session - Synthesis and Medicinal Chemistry

Program Chair: Aaron Roth

Mike Schrimpf AbbVie

Discovery of a Non-Covalent Inhibitor of the Coronavirus Main Protease

Dipannita Kalyani Merck

Catalyzing Molecular Invention Leveraging Industry-Academia Collaborations

Jasmine King University of Western Australia

Covalent Modulators of Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor Gamma (PPARγ): Towards A New Targeted Cancer Therapy

Martin Himmelbauer Biogen

Discovery of BIIB129, a Covalent, Selective, and Brain-Penetrant BTK-Inhibitor for the Treatment of MS

Vishal Verma Genentech

Discovery of Potent and Selective CDK2 Inhibitors Utilizing a Novel Molecular Dynamics Based Approach

Networking Session

POSTER SESSION

Wednesday. February 5th 2025

Advances in Bioconjugate Chemistry

Program Chair: Natalia Chernyak

Monika Raj Emory University

Bioconjugation Tools for Protein Modifications

Shalom Goldberg Johnson & Johnson

Advances in chemical and enzymatic bioconjugation to enable antibody conjugate drugs

Nathan Tumey Binghamton University

The Magic of Legumain Cleavable Peptides: New ADC Linker Designs for Diverse Applications

Marion Emmert Merck

Technology and Platform Development for ADC Conjugations

Andy Judd AbbVie

Targeted Delivery of BCL-XL Selective Inhibitors Alleviates On-Target Toxicity of Systemically Dosed Inhibitors in Preclinical Models

Robert M. Williams' Memorial KEYNOTE LECTURE

Program Chair: Nootaree Niljianskul

Lyn Jones Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Covalent Protein Degraders Targeting the Cereblon Sensor Loop Histidine

Jon Mortison Merck

Approaches to Targeting RNA with Small Molecules

Denise Field Pfizer

Large-Scale Chemoproteomics Expedites Drug Discovery and Predicts Ligand Behavior in Cells

Kevan Shokat UCSF

KEYNOTE:  Overcoming the Undruggable Nature of the Most Common Human Oncogene K-Ras

Thursday, February 6th 2025

Late Breaking / First Time Disclosures

Program Chair: Joe Pero

Hanna Wisniewska Pfizer

Neutral Transthyretin (TTR) Stabilizers for the Treatment of Amyloidogenic Diseases

Chris amEnde Pfizer

Impacting Protein Homeostasis Through Covalent Modification: Discovery of a Small Molecule Degrader for the Treatment of MAFLD

Noel Wilson AbbVie

Discovery of ABBV-992:  A Covalent BTK Inhibitor for the Treatment of B-cell Lymphoma

Izzat Raheem Merck

Discovery of MK-8527: A Novel Nucleoside Reverse Transcriptase Translocation Inhibitor for Long-acting HIV Pre-exposure Prophylaxis

Michael G. Hahn Bayer AG

Discovery of inhaled sGC Activator Mosliciguat for the Treatment of Pulmonary Hypertension

Networking Session

Conference Dinner - Top of the Gondola

Bronze sponsors

Lithium sponsors

Media Sponsors