1st Virtual Discovery Conference and Exhibition
For immediate release – Conference agenda now available.
1st Virtual Discovery Conference and Exhibition
24-25 October 2007
London, UK
VirtualDiscovery.net
Select Biosciences is proud to announce their inaugural Virtual Discovery conference and exhibition. The event will be held on October 24-25 at the Centre Point Tower in the heart of London, just a few streets away from some of the most famous city’s attractions (Theatre district, Covent Garden, Leicester Square, Oxford Street…).
Alongside an exhibition of selected scientific posters and service providers, Select Biosciences has organised a two day conference programme gathering some of the most influential players in the field from Europe, Asia and America. They will present advances in computational techniques designed to turn raw data into chemical information and its increasingly valuable application in Drug Discovery.
The session will develop:
- New strategies
- Virtual screening
- Case studies and success stories.
The following distinguished speakers have already confirmed their participation:
Martin Harrison, Associate Principal Scientist, AstraZeneca
Hugo Kubinyi, Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Heidelberg University
Mario Lobell, Computational Chemist, Bayer HealthCare
Malcolm Walkinshaw, Professor of Structural Biochemistry, Edinburgh University
The complete agenda as well as a downloadable brochure can be found on VirtualDiscovery.net
In addition, to make your trip to London even more cost efficient, Select Biosciences has also organised a training course on the afternoon prior the conference, 23 October, on “Design and Deployment of High Throughput in Silico Docking on Grid Infrastructure” by Nicolas Jacq, who led the first large scale biomedical deployments on the EGEE grid infrastructure. His research activitiy concentrates on the development of in-silico drug discovery services in computing grid environments.
Further details available online, as well as early and group registration deals and special hotel rates.
Selected media partnerships are available for this event.
About Select Biosciences
Select Biosciences Ltd. is focused on organizing specialist biomedical meetings. Experts from both academia and commerce present timely information from current research through to commercial implementation of new technologies. These events also provide a unique networking facility and the opportunity to reach a highly targeted scientific audience.
