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Welcome to the Target Discovery World Congress. This is a multi-track event with a combined exhibition covering the current potential drug targets, the platforms used to screen for hits and hit-to-lead methods. This conference  included the following major drug targets:

Ion Channels
Protein Kinases
GPCRs
Nuclear Receptors
Ubiquitin Pathway

Please visit our agenda page for more information. 

This year's event took place at the South San Francisco Conference Center.

Keynote Speakers

Jeffery Conn
Lee E. Limbird Professor of Pharmacology
Director, Vanderbilt Program in Drug Discovery

Rathnam Chaguturu
Director, High Throughput Screening Laboratories, Courtesy Research Professor-Molecular Biosciences
University of Kansas

Joseph McGivern
Research Director, Lead Discovery
Amgen



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Free Workshop

Sponsorship and Exhibition Opportunities
Aaron Woodley, Exhibition Manager
a.woodley@selectbiosciences.com
+44 (0)1787 315129

Official Journal Partner

Confirmed Speakers
Thomas Burris Professor, Nuclear Receptor Biology, Pennington Biomedical Reseach Centre
Ariel Fernandez RICE University, Karl F. Hasselmann Chair in Engineering & Professor of Bioengineering
Andrei Gartel Associate Professor, Medicine, Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics and Microbiology & Immunology, University of Illinois
D. Martin Watterson John G. Searle Professor & Co-Director, University Centre for Drug Discovery and Chemical Biology, Northwestern University
J. Fraser Glickman Director, High Throughput Screening Resource Center, The Rockefeller University
Milt Teitler Professor, Centre for Neuropharmacology & Neuroscience, Albany Medical College
Frank Bosmans Senior Post-Doctoral Researcher, Department of Neuroscience, National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Mark Sundrud Research Fellow, Immune Disease Institute, Harvard Medical School
Jeffrey Field Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology, University of Pennsylvania
Shafiqur Rahman Associate Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, South Dakota State University
Narender Gavva Principal Scientist, Department of Neuroscience, Amgen
Martin McMahon Efim Guzik Distinguished Professor of Cancer Biology, University of California, San Francisco
Alexei Yeliseev Staff Scientist, NIH/NIAAA
Brian Cunningham Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Hans Brauner-Osborne Professor, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Copenhagen
Soren P. Sheikh Professor & Head of Department for Pharmacology, Biochemistry & Genetics, Odense University Hospital
Michael Holinstat Assistant Professor, Thomas Jefferson University
John J. Bright Senior Investigator, Methodist Research Institute
Ruth Martin Associate Research Investigator, Abbott 
Graciela Pineyro Associate Professor Faculty of Medicine, University of Montreal 
Jen Pan Group Leader, The Broad Institute
Spiros Linardopoulos Team Leader, Insititute of Cancer Research
Thomas Murray Professor and Chair, Creighton University School of Medicine

Hakim Djaballah Director High-Throughput Drug Screening Facility, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Jianmin Cui Associate Professor, Washington University
Suresh Kumar Senior Scientist, Progenra inc
Heike Wulff Associate Professor, University of California
Guy Salvesen Professor & Director, Program on Apoptosis & Cell Death Research, The Burnham Institute for Medical Research
Bing Xie Scientific Consultant Manager, Cisbio US
Siobhan Malany Principal Scientist, Tanabe Research Laboratories
Thomas Chung Project Manager BCCG, Conrad Prebys Center for Chemical Genomics, Burnham Institute for Medical Research
Vebjørn Ljoså Computational Biologist, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT
Susan Heynen-Genel Director High Content Screening Systems Conrad Prebys Center for Chemical Genomics, Burnham Institute for Medical Research
O. Joseph Trask Head of Cellular Imaging Technologies, Center for Drug Discovery, Duke University Medical Center
Larry Sklar Cancer Research and Treatment Center, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center
Alan Waggoner Professor of Biological Sciences and Director of the Molecular Biosensor and Imaging Center, Carnegie Mellon University