Industry event: Taking drug discovery towards cells and tissues

Join the Astbury Centre for a day focused on taking drug discovery into cells and tissues with the aim of driving translation.

Improving productivity, whilst increasing innovation, is a major challenge for the pharmaceutical sector.

Attrition rates in drug discovery and development remain stubbornly high, with lack of efficacy being one of the major causes.

Furthermore, drug discovery is changing, with the advent of new drug modalities, such as targeted protein degraders and modifiers, and more complex cellular targets, such as intrinsically-disordered proteins. Within this context, understanding underlying target biology, and the mechanisms of drug candidates in relevant disease contexts, is critical.

This one-day meeting at the Royal Society will explore how technological advances – in tomography, bioimaging and chemical biology – can take drug discovery towards cells and tissues.

Such technologies have the potential throughout drug discovery pipelines – from target selection through to understanding the mechanisms of drug candidates - with the ultimate goal of driving effective translation.

To discover the full agenda, and register your interest, visit eventbrite. 

Please note this meeting is intended for industrial delegates only. This event is also not organised or endorsed by The Royal Society.

For any queries relating to the event, please contact the Astbury Centre's Research and Innovation Officer Dr Adele Parry at a.a.parry@leeds.ac.uk

Image credit: Dr Rene Frank - 3-dimensional molecular architecture of β-amyloid plaque.