Thursday September 7, 2023
14:15 Registration
15:15 Welcome and Opening
Dr Maja BEUS (DUKE UNIVERSITY, Durham, United States)
Dr Hrvoje RIMAC (SELVITA, Zagreb, Croatia)
15:30 KL01 - Druggability Beyond the Rule of Five
Dr Sanja KOSTRUN (SELVITA, Zagreb, Croatia)
EFMC-YMCS Competition Presentation Session I
Session Chair: Dr Hrvoje RIMAC (SELVITA, Zagreb, Croatia)
16:00 OC01 - Shedding Light on L-Type Calcium Channels with Novel Far-Red Fluorescent Ligands
Winner of the young medicinal chemist meeting in Belgium (KVCV)
Mrs Carlotta BORGARELLI (KU LEUVEN, Heverlee, Belgium)
16:15 OC02 - Biophysical Screening for the Identification of Small Molecules as Lactate
Dehydrogenase (LDHS)’s Oligomeric State Disruptors
Winner of the young medicinal chemist meeting in Belgium (SRC)
Mrs Chiara BRUSTENGA (UCL/LDRI, Brussels, Belgium)
16:30 OC03 - Discovery of Allosteric Modulators of A2A Receptors
Winner of the young medicinal chemist meeting in Croatia
Ms Tana TANDARIC (RUDER BOSKOVIC INSTITUTE, Zagreb, Croatia)
16:45 OC04 - Molecular Sensing and Imaging of Carbon Dioxide Incomplex Environments
Winner of the young medicinal chemist meeting in Israel
Dr Ori GREEN (ETH ZURICH, Zürich, Switzerland)
17:00 Flash Poster Presentations (Part I)
FP01 – In Silico-Aided Optimization of Metallo Beta-Lactamase Inhibitors Active against
Clinically Relevant Carbapenemases
Dr Matteo BERSANI (UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI TORINO, Torino, Italy)
FP02 – Voc’s Art: Voc-Based Probes for Exploration, Detection and Monitoring of Pathologies
Ms Estelle BLOCHOUSE (IC2MP CNRS, Poitiers, France)
FP03 – Using Chemical Modification of Anticancer Drug Scaffolds to Study Efflux Mediated
Chemoresistance in Cancer Cells
Mrs Madiha CHOWDHURY (KINGS COLLEGE LONDON, London, United Kingdom)
FP04 – Semi-Synthesis of Thioglycoside Derivatives of the Natural Product Antibiotic
Fidaxomicin
Ms Isabella FERRARA (UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH, Zurich, Switzerland)
FP05 – Carbamates as Potential New Drugs in the Treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease
Dr Ana MATOSEVIC (INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH AND OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH (IMI), Zagreb, Croatia)
FP06 – GPR84 Structural-Functional Selectivity Relationship (SFSR) Reveals Distinct Responses
Induced by Biased Agonists
Mr Wang PINQI (UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, Oxford, United Kingdom)
FP07 – Design, Synthesis and in vitro Evaluation of New Peptide-Based Inhibitors Targeting Sars-
Cov-2 Main Protease, Focusing on the Exploration of Heterocyclic Systems for the S3/S4 Sub-Pockets
Dr Sara ROSSI (UNIVERSITY OF SIENA, Grosseto, Italy)
FP08 – A Multistep High-Throughput Chemistry Platform to Take Protac Synthesis and Testing to
a New Level
Ms Rebecca STEVENS (GSK/UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE, Stevenage, United Kingdom)
FP09 – Development of Dual-Functionalized Fluorophores to Monitor Antibody Delivery Systems
Ms Luu TRACEY ( MONASH UNIVERSITY, Parkville, Australia)
FP10 – Discovery of Potent Tetrazole Free Fatty Acid Receptor 2 Antagonists
Ms Alice VALENTINI ( UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN, Copenhagen, Denmark)
FP13 – Photoswitching HDAC Inhibitors for the Spatiotemporal Targeting of Cancer Cells with Light
Dr Laia JOSA CULLERE (INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED CHEMISTRY OF CATALONIA (IQAC-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain)
17:25 Coffee Break & Exhibition
EFMC-YMCS Competition Presentation Session II
Session Chair: Dr Michele MARI (UNIVERSITY OF URBINO, Urbino, Italy)
17:45 OC05 - Optimization of a Pyridylpiperazine Series as a Novel Class of Efflux Pump Inhibitors in
E. Coli to Fight Antimicrobial Resistance
Winner of the young medicinal chemist meeting in France (SCT)
Ms Nina COMPAGNE (UNIVERSITY OF LILLE, DRUGS AND MOLECULES FOR LIVING SYSTEMS, Lille, France)
18:00 OC06 - Ga(III) Siderophore Complexes - A Metallo-Trojan Horse Strategy to Tackle Antimicrobial
Resistance
Winner of the young medicinal chemist meeting in Ireland
Mr Lewis MORE O’FERRALL (ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS, Dublin, Ireland)
18:15 OC07 - Discovery of Isoquinoline Sulfonamides as Gyrase Inhibitors Active against
Fluoroquinolone-Resistant Bacteria
Winner of the young medicinal chemist meeting in The Netherlands
Dr Alexander BAKKER (LEIDEN UNIVERSITY, ‘s-Gravenhage, The Netherlands)
18:30 OC08 - Design Principles for Cyclin K Molecular Glue Degraders
Winner of the 2023 EFMC-YSN PhD Prize
Mrs Zuzanna KOZICKA (FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH, Basel, Switzerland)
18:45 EFMC-YSN Soft Skills Training (1) - Reaxys Workshop: A Tandem Tour to Unveil the Profile of an
Active Molecule
Dr Giulia MONCELSI (ELSEVIER LIFE SCIENCES, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
19:30 EFMC-YMCS Poster Presentation Session 1
20:45 EFMC-YSN Networking Event
22:00 End of the Day
Friday September 8, 2023
08:30 EFMC-YSN Soft Skills Training (2) - Career Panel Discussion
Dr Kristina GONCHARENKO (ZIFO RND SOLUTIONS, Basel, Switzerland)
Dr Chiara BORSARI (UNIVERSITY OF MILAN, Milan, Italy)
Dr Sanja KOSTRUN (SELVITA LTD., Zagreb, Croatia)
Mr Patrik NIKOLIC (OPTIBRIUM, Cambridge, United Kingdom)
Dr David PERALTA (CHEMMEDCHEM/CHEMISTRY EUROPE, Weinheim, Germany)
Dr Minh Thao TRAN (JANSSEN PHARMACEUTICA, Beerse, Belgium)
EFMC-YMCS Competition Presentation Session III
Session Chair: Ms Floriane ESHAK (UNIVERSITY PARIS CITÉ, Paris, France)
09:30 KL02 - Leveraging Natural Products to Afford New Therapeutic Leads that Can Target Resistant Tumors
Prof. Thomas POULSEN (AARHUS UNIVERSITY, Aarhus C, Denmark)
10:00 OC09 - Synthesis of Quinazoline Derivatives as Anticancer Agents
Winner of the young medicinal chemist meeting in Greece
Dr Eleftheria GEORGIOU (NKUA, Athens, Greece)
10:15 OC10 - Synthesis and Cytotoxic Activity of Novel Sclareol Derivatives
Winner of the young medicinal chemist meeting in Serbia
Mr Pavle A. STOJKOVIC (UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE, Beograd, Serbia)
10:30 OC11 - From Pan to Pi3Kα-Selective Inhibitors: A Covalent Strategy to Fine-Tune Isoform-Specific Targeting
Winner of the young medicinal chemist meeting in Italy
Dr Chiara BORSARI (UNIVERSITY OF MILAN, Milan, Italy)
10:45 OC12 - Heterobifunctional E3 Ligase Recruiters Enable Pan-Degradation of Inhibitor of
Apoptosis Proteins
Winner of the young medicinal chemist meeting in Slovenia
Mrs Alesa BRICELJ (UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA, Ljubljana, Slovenia)
11:00 Flash Poster Presentations (Part II)
FP11 – Design and Synthesis of Novel RNA Ligands as Inhibitors of Oncogenic Micrornas Production
Mr Jihed AZZOUZ (INSTITUT DE CHIMIE DE NICE-ICN, Nice, France)
FP12 – Synthesis Optimization of the First in Class 3CLPRO Inhibitor Nirmatrelvir
Mrs Anastasia FERRARO (UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI NAPOLI FEDERICO II, Napoli, Italy)
FP15 – Aminoacrylamides with Potential Anti-Breast Cancer Activity Act Through 14-3-3σ/Er-Αa PPI
Stabilization
Dr Paulo PITASSE SANTOS (UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER, Leicester, United Kingdom)
FP16 – Development of First-In-Class Dual LSD1-PRMT5 Inhibitors for the Treatment of Acute
Myeloid Leukemia
Ms Alessia RAUCCI (SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME, Rome, Italy)
FP17 – Design, Development and Evaluation of Novel Anticancer Drugs Targeting Protein Kinase D2 (Pkd2)
Ms Lauren VOETS (KU LEUVEN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, Leuven, Belgium)
FP18 – Novel Activators of Slack Potassium Channels for the Treatment of Histamine-
Independent and Chronic Itch
Mr Wenxin Felix ZHU (GOETHE UNIVERSITY, Frankfurt, Germany)
FP19 – Synthesis, Photochemistry and Biological Activity of Novel Bodipy Photochages as
Potential Anticancer Phototherapeutics
Ms Katarina ZLATIC (RUDER BOSKOVIC INSTITUTE, Zagreb, Croatia)
11:25 Coffee Break & Exhibition
EFMC-YMCS Competition Presentation Session IV
Session Chair: Dr Isabella ROMEO (MAGNA GRÆCIA UNIVERSITY, Catanzaro, Italy)
11:45 OC13 - Peroxide-Cleavable Linkers for Antibody-Drug Conjugates
Winner of the young medicinal chemist meeting in United Kingdom
Mrs Nicola ASHMAN (UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, Cambridge , United Kingdom)
12:00 OC14 - Accelerating Mechanistic Deconvolution Using Chemical Biological Tools
Winner of the young medicinal chemist meeting in Denmark
Mr Esben BJERREGAARD SVENNINGSEN (AARHUS UNIVERSITY, Aarhus C, Denmark)
12:15 OC15 - Novel 5-Ht6 Receptor Inverse Agonists and Neutral Antagonists Derived from
2-Arylpyrrole: Sustainable Synthesis and Pharmacological Profiling
Winner of the young medicinal chemist meeting in Poland
Dr Marcin DROP (JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE, Krakow, Poland)
12:30 OC16 - Styrylbenzothiazole Photoswitches for Spatiotemporal Control over Microtubule-
Dependent Biology
Winner of the young medicinal chemist meeting in Germany
Mr Li GAO (ROCHE, Penzberg, Germany)
12:45 Lunch, Networking & Exhibition
13:30 EFMC-YMCS Poster Presentation Session 2
EFMC-YMCS Competition Presentation Session V
Session Chair: Dr Kristina GONCHARENKO (ZIFO RND SOLUTIONS, Basel, Switzerland)
14:45 OC17 - Antimicrobial Photodynamic Therapy Combined with Antimicrobials: an Alternative
Approach for Eradication of Gram-Negative Bacteria
Winner of the young medicinal chemist meeting in Portugal
Mr Rafael AROSO (UNIVERSIDADE DE COIMBRA, Coimbra, Portugal)
15:00 OC18 - Hitting a New Combination of Biological Targets to Cope with Alzheimer’s Disease
Winner of the young medicinal chemist meeting in Spain
Ms Noemí MARTÍNEZ CONDE (UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA, Barcelona, Spain)
15:15 OC19 - Cyclic Tetrapeptides: Novel Remedy for Lead Poisoning
Winner of the young medicinal chemist meeting in Switzerland
Mrs Tagwa MOHAMMED (UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH, Zurich, Switzerland)
15:30 OC20 - Redox Probes and Bioreductive Prodrugs
Winner of the 2023 Symeres PhD Prize for Excellence in Chemistry in Life Sciences Research
Dr Jan G. FELBER (UNIVERSITÄT MÜNCHEN, München, Germany)
15:45 Voting Break
16:00 KL03 - Trends in Medicinal Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Dr Yves P. AUBERSON (NOVARTIS INSTITUTES FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH, Basel, Switzerland)
16:30 Closing and Award Ceremony
16:50 End of the Symposium