18th Winter Conference
on Medicinal & Bioorganic Chemistry
January 31st - February 4th, 2027
Steamboat Grand Resort, Colorado
Agenda
Sunday, January 31st, 2027
1:00 - 5:00pm
Registration
4:00 - 5:00pm
Welcome Coffee and Cookies
5:00 - 5:20pm
Welcome and Opening Remarks Scott Wolkenberg, Conference Chair
Drug Hunter
Program Chair: Lew Pennington, Drug Hunter
5:20 - 5:55pm
Elena Koltun Revolution Medicines
5:55 - 6:30pm
Gavin O'Mahony AstraZeneca
6:30 - 7:05pm
Brian Aquila Alkermes
7:05 - 7:10pm
Drug Hunter Award Introduction and Prize
7:10 - 8:00pm
Mark Bunnage Vertex Pharmaceuticals
Drug Hunter Award
Networking Session
Welcome Networking Session
Monday, February 1st, 2027
Emerging Applications of Machine Learning in Organic Synthesis
Program Chair: Amanda Dombrowski, Abbvie
8:05 - 8:40am
Ryan Shenvi Scripps Research
8:40 - 9:15am
Emma King-Smith University of Edinburgh
9:15 - 9:50am
Alex Rago AbbVie
9:50 - 10:25am
Bo Hao Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson
10:25 - 11:00am
Simon Berritt Pfizer
Emerging Modalities and Mechanisms
Program Chair: Fred Zecri, Mariana Oncology
5:05 - 5:40pm
David Nicewicz & Anthony Casares
5:40 - 6:15pm
Aimee Usera Delphia Tx
6:15 - 6:50pm
Mike Bird Avidity Biosciences
6:50 - 7:25pm
Pankaj Jain Novartis
7:25 - 8:00pm
Paul Feldman Aktis Oncology
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2027
Advances in Neuroscience Therapeutics
Program Chair: Raphaelle Berger, Johnson & Johnson
8:05 - 8:40am
Jigar Patel PTC Therapeutics, Inc.
8:40 - 9:15am
9:15 - 9:50am
9:50 - 10:25am
10:25 - 11:00am
General Session
Program Chair: Jose Enrique Gomez, Johnson & Johnson
5:05 - 5:30pm
Chris Vanderall University of California, Irvine
5:30 - 5:55pm
5:55 - 6:20pm
6:20 - 6:45pm
6:45 - 7:10pm
Please see our Abstract Submission Area
Networking Session
Poster Session
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2027
Chemical Biology for Drug Discovery
Program Chair: Denise Field, Pfizer
8:05 - 8:40am
George Burslem University of Pennsylvania
8:40 - 9:15am
Gabby Lovett Pfizer
9:15 - 9:50am
Milad Rouhimoghadam AbbVie
9:50 - 10:25am
Aya Kelly Bristol Myers Squibb
10:25 - 11:00am
Brian Cook Vividion Therapeutics
RM Williams Keynote - Molecular Editing
Program Chair: Charles Yeung, Merck
Guangbin Dong University of Chicago
Alison Wendlandt Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Anastassia Matviitsuk Johnson & Johnson
Darren Dixon University of Oxford
Michaelyn Lux Pfizer
Richmond Sarpong
KEYNOTE LECTURE
Thursday, February 4th 2027
Late Breaking / First Time Disclosures
Program Chair: Sarah Skerratt, Isomorphic Labs
8:05 - 8:40am
8:40 - 9:15am
9:15 - 9:50am
9:50 - 10:25am
10:25 - 11:00am
Networking Session
Conference Dinner - Top of the Gondola
Lithium sponsors
Media Sponsors
