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
Drug Hunter Award:
Evolving Strategies in Targeting KRAS
Discovery of CHK-336: A Liver-Targeted, Small Molecule Lactate Dehydrogenase Inhibitor for Hyperoxaluria Treatment
Discovery and Development of Clinical-stage Degraders of Bruton’s Tyrosine Kinase for the treatment of B cell Disorders
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
Chemical Tailoring at C—H Bonds
Synthesis Innovation in Drug Discovery
Inserting, Deleting, and Replacing Atoms
Recent Advances in DNA-Encoded Technology at GSK
Living in Uncertainty: Application of Active Learning in Drug Discovery
Leveraging Chemically Induced Proximity in Drug Discovery
Program Chair: Kevin Freeman-Cook
Redefining Druggability with Induced Proximity Modalities
Hold and Kill: RIPTAC™ Therapeutics Present a Novel Induced-Proximity Mechanism to Conquer Cancer
Discovery of Orally Bioavailable SMARCA2-Selective Monovalent Degraders
The Hunt for Ligands for Tissue-Restricted Ligases
Cereblon Mediated Ligand Directed Degradation at Bristol Myers Squibb
Tuesday, February 4th 2025
Therapeutic Opportunities for Immune Modulators
Program Chair: Hanna Wisniewska
Discovery of C-terminal and N-terminal binding STING agonists
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
Development of Non-alkynyl NIK Inhibitors
Discovery and Optimization of a Series of MALT1 Inhibitors Using Structure-Based Drug Design and Parallel Medicinal Chemistry
Redefining Selectivity in JAK1 Inhibition: The Case for Allosteric Modulators
General Session - Synthesis and Medicinal Chemistry
Program Chair: Aaron Roth
Discovery of a Non-Covalent Inhibitor of the Coronavirus Main Protease
Catalyzing Molecular Invention Leveraging Industry-Academia Collaborations
Covalent Modulators of Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor Gamma (PPARγ): Towards A New Targeted Cancer Therapy
Discovery of BIIB129, a Covalent, Selective, and Brain-Penetrant BTK-Inhibitor for the Treatment of MS
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
Bioconjugation Tools for Protein Modifications
Advances in chemical and enzymatic bioconjugation to enable antibody conjugate drugs
The Magic of Legumain Cleavable Peptides: New ADC Linker Designs for Diverse Applications
Technology and Platform Development for ADC Conjugations
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
Covalent Protein Degraders Targeting the Cereblon Sensor Loop Histidine
Approaches to Targeting RNA with Small Molecules
Large-Scale Chemoproteomics Expedites Drug Discovery and Predicts Ligand Behavior in Cells
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
Neutral Transthyretin (TTR) Stabilizers for the Treatment of Amyloidogenic Diseases
Impacting Protein Homeostasis Through Covalent Modification: Discovery of a Small Molecule Degrader for the Treatment of MAFLD
Discovery of ABBV-992: A Covalent BTK Inhibitor for the Treatment of B-cell Lymphoma
Discovery of MK-8527: A Novel Nucleoside Reverse Transcriptase Translocation Inhibitor for Long-acting HIV Pre-exposure Prophylaxis
Discovery of inhaled sGC Activator Mosliciguat for the Treatment of Pulmonary Hypertension
Networking Session
Conference Dinner - Top of the Gondola