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August 20-21, 2022

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Six Symposiums
   

Symposium on Recent Advancements on Drug Discovery Science and Technology

 

Symposium on Novel Drug Delivery Systems and Technology

 

Symposium on New Discoveries and Achievements of Cancer Research

 

Symposium on Latest Advances in Cardiovascular Research and Therapeutics Development

 

Symposium on Innovation on CNS Research and Therapeutics Development

 

Symposium on Updates on Diabetes Research and Therapy

 
Latest News

•  Online Registration is Open
October 1st, 2019

•  Call for speakers!
September 1st, 2019

•  Welcome to the website of  WCDI-2021

August 15th, 2019

 
Important Dates

•  Abstract Submission Start Day
September 1st, 2019

•  Earlybird Registration Start Day
October 1st, 2019

•  Earlybird Registration Deadline
December 31st, 2019

•  Abstract Submission Deadline
June 30th, 2022

•  Acceptance Notification Deadline
July 20 th, 2022

 
 
Symposium on
Recent Advancements on Drug Discovery Science and Technology
 

Introduction

Symposium on Recent Advancements on Drug Discovery Science and Technology provides a platform to promote international exchanges for drug discovery, and to accelerate the cooperation for new drug research and development in the global market. This Symposium feature talks on the cutting edge of the discipline that include new compounds, targets, drug design, synthesis methods and technologies that advance the science from leaders in the pharmaceutical, biotech and academic spaces.

 

Topics

Session 1-1: Drug Discovery Biology

Session 1-2: Drug Discovery Chemistry

Session 1-3: Breaking Technology in Drug Design

Session 1-4: Novel Drug Target Discovery and Validation

Session 1-5: Omics Technologies in Drug Discovery

Session 1-6: Drug Screening Technology

Session 1-7: Translational Medicine and Drug Discovery

Session 1-8: Biomarkers in Drug Discovery & Development

Session 1-9: Drug Discovery Pharmacology and Toxicology

Session 1-10: Marine Drugs and Natural Products in Drug Discovery and Development

Session 1-11: Novel Drug Targets for Personalized Precision Medicine

Session 1-12: Small Molecule Drug Discovery

Session 1-13: CNS Drug Discovery & Therapy

Session 1-14: Cardiovascular Drug Discovery & Therapy

Session 1-15: Anti-Cancer Drug Discovery and Therapy

Session 1-16: Emerging Infectious Diseases Drug Discovery and Therapy

Session 1-17: Antibody Drug Discovery and Development

Session 1-18: Biosimilar Drug Product Development

 

AGENDA

Day 0, August 11, 2021
Registration

Day 1, August 12, 2021
MORNING

Opening Ceremony

Welcome Remark by Honorary Chairs
Dr. Andreas Strasse, Fellow Of The Australian Academy of Science; NHMRC Senior Principal Research Fellow, Alan W Harris Personal Chair, Walter And Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Australia
Dr. Chong-Su Cho, Fellow of Korean Academy of Science and Technology, Fellow of International Union of Societies for Biomaterials Science and Engineering; Research Professor, Research Institute for Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, South Korea

 

Keynote Forum I for Drug Discovery

 

Chair

Call for Chair

Speech Time

Speaker's Profile

09:15-9:45

Title: GPCRomics: an approach to identify novel GPCR targets
Dr. Paul A. Insel, Distinguished Professor of Pharmacology and Distinguished Professor of Medicine,

Co-Director, Medical Scientist (MD/PhD) Training Program, University of California, San Diego, USA

09:45-10:15

Title: Inhibitors of Bruton’s tyrosine kinase (BTK) are transforming leukemia and lymphoma treatment
Dr. C. I. Edvard SMITH, Professor, Karolinska Institute, Sweden

10:15-10:45

Title: Peptide Based Radiopahrmaceuticals for Cancer Diagnosis
Dr. Yueqing Gu, Professor, Biomedical Engineering; Dean, School of Engineering; Director, Molecular imaging

and Biomedical Engineering China Pharmaceutical University, China

10:45-11:00

Coffee Break

11:00-11:30

Title: The Dawning of a New Era in Drug Discovery and Development
Dr. Richard Soll, Senior Vice President, Research Service Division, WuXi AppTec, USA

11:30-12:00

Speech Opportunity Available

 

Day 1, August 12, 2021
AFTERNOON

Session 1-1: Drug Discovery Biology

 

Chair

 

Dr. Jun-Kyu Suh, Inha-Hanlym Distinguished Professor, National Research Center for Sexual Medicine,

Dept. of Urology, Inha University School of Medicine, South Korea

Co-Chair

Dr. Appu Rathinavelu, Executive Director , Rumbaugh Goodwin Institute for Cancer Research,

Nova Southeastern University, USA

Speech Time

Speaker's Profile

13:30-13:55

Speech Opportunity Available

13:55-14:20

Title: The exploration of novel HIV-1 NNRTIs
Dr. Shuang-Xi Gu, Professor, Key Laboratory for Green Chemical Process of Ministry of Education,

School of Chemical Engineering and Pharmacy, Wuhan Institute of Technology, China

14:20-14:45

Title: Development of angiogenic protein for future therapy of erectile dysfunction
Dr. Jun-Kyu Suh, Inha-Hanlym Distinguished Professor, National Research Center for Sexual Medicine,

Dept. of Urology, Inha University School of Medicine, South Korea

14:45-15:10

Title: Water Mediates Raman effect and its Application as Alternative Medicine in Cell Biology
Insang Lee, CEO of Divine Lab Co Ltd., South Korea

15:10-15:30

Coffee Break

 

 

Session 1-2: Drug Discovery Chemistry

 

Chair

Dr. Tomasz Janecki, Professor, Director of the Institute of Organic Chemistry, Lodz University of Technology, Poland

Co-Chair

Dr. George Kokotos, Professor of Organic and Medicinal Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, National and

Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

Speech Time

Speaker's Profile

13:30-13:55

Speech Opportunity Available

13:55-14:20

Title: Sesquiterpene lactones and related compounds as promising anticancer agents
Dr. Tomasz Janecki, Professor, Director of the Institute of Organic Chemistry, Lodz University of Technology, Poland

14:20-14:45

Title: In-silico methodology that outperforms lab methods in predicting human clinical ADME/PK
Dr. Urban Fagerholm, Associate Professor, CEO at PROSILICO, Huddinge, Sweden

14:45-15:10

Title: Discovery of novel bioactive lipids
Dr. George Kokotos, Professor of Organic and Medicinal Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, National and

Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

15:10-15:30

Coffee Break

 

 

Session 1-3: Breaking Technology in Drug Design

 

Chair

Dr. Nikolai Petrovsky, Professor, Flinders University, Australia

Co-Chair

Dr. Don Van Dyke Raleigh, NC Business Development Consultant Ontario Ministry of Economic Development &

Trade, Canada

Speech Time

Speaker's Profile

13:30-13:55

Title: Quantum kernel energy method: Drug–target interaction energies for drug design
Dr. Lou Massa, Professor, Hunter College, City University of New York, USA

13:55-14:20

Title: Lead Molecule Design Using AI
Dr. Don Van Dyke  Raleigh, NC Business Development Consultant, Ontario Ministry of Economic Development

& Trade, Canada

14:20-14:45

Speech Opportunity Available

14:45-15:10

Title: High throughput methods for immuno-therapeutic drug design
Dr. Nikolai Petrovsky, Professor, Flinders University, Australia

15:10-15:30

Coffee Break

 

 

Session 1-4: Novel Drug Target Discovery and Validation

 

Chair

Dr. Sun-Young Han, Professor, College of Pharmacy, Gyeongsang National University, South Korea

Co-Chair

Call for Co-Chair

Speech Time

Speaker's Profile

13:30-13:55

Speech Opportunity Available

13:55-14:20

Speech Opportunity Available

14:20-14:45

Speech Opportunity Available

14:45-15:10

Title: TBD
Dr. Dong-Jin Hwang, Research Associate, UTHSC,USA

15:10-15:30

Coffee Break

 

Day 2, August 13, 2021
AFTERNOON

 

Session 1-5: Mass Spectrometry Applications in Drug R&D

 

Chair

 

Dr. Kate Comstock, Senior Pharmaceutical Products Manager, Pharma/Biopharma Marketing,

Small Molecule/Extractables & Leachables Analysis, CMD, Thermo Fisher Scientific, USA

Co-Chair

Call for Co-Chair

Speech Time

Speaker's Profile

13:30-13:55

Speech Opportunity Available

13:55-14:20

Speech Opportunity Available

14:20-14:45

Speech Opportunity Available

14:45-15:10

Dr. Kate Comstock, Senior Pharmaceutical Products Manager, Pharma/Biopharma Marketing,

Small Molecule/Extractables & Leachables Analysis, CMD, Thermo Fisher Scientific, USA

15:10-15:30

Coffee Break

 

 

Session 1-6: Drug Screening Technology

 

Chair

Dr. Dong Liang, President&CEO, Aurora Biomed Inc. , Canada

Co-Chair

Call for Co-Chair

Speech Time

Speaker's Profile

13:30-13:55

Title: Label Free flux Assay for Ion Channel and Transporters – Novel area for Natural Compound and Cancer

Drug Discovery
Dong Liang, President&CEO, Aurora Biomed Inc., Canada

13:55-14:20

Title: Screening of a protein scaffold library for an inhibitor of IL7 signalling candidate
Frederique Ponchel, Associate Professor, Head of Translational Research in Immune Mediated Inflammatory

Diseases, The University of Leeds, UK

14:20-14:45

Title: 26 years of DNA-Encoded Chemistry: Managing serendipity in pre-clinical small molecule drug discovery
Dr. Barry Morgan, CSO, HitGen Pharmaceuticals Inc., USA

14:45-15:10

Speech Opportunity Available

15:10-15:30

Coffee Break

 

 

Session 1-7: Translational Medicine and Drug Discovery

 

Chair

Dr. Dr. Hong Ling, CSO&SVP, Leads Biolabs, China

Co-Chair

Dr. Crystal S. Shin, Assistant Professor, Translational Nanomedicine Research Laboratory, Baylor College

of Medicine, USA

Speech Time

Speaker's Profile

13:30-13:55

Speech Opportunity Available

13:55-14:20

Title: Translational research through drug discovery and development
Dr. Dr. Hong Ling, CSO&SVP, Leads Biolabs, China

14:20-14:45

Speech Opportunity Available

14:45-15:10

Title: TBD
Dr. Crystal S. Shin, Assistant Professor, Translational Nanomedicine Research Laboratory,

Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, USA

15:10-15:30

Coffee Break

 

 

Session 1-8: Biomarkers in Drug Discovery & Development

 

Chair

 

Dr. Krishna Kumar, Professor of Biopharmaceutics & Pharmacokinetics, Howard University, College of Pharmacy,

USA

Co-Chair

Dr. Hüseyin FIRAT, Professor, CEO-CSO, FIRALIS S.A., France

Speech Time

Speaker's Profile

13:30-13:55

Speech Opportunity Available

13:55-14:20

Title: TBD
Dr. Young Juhn, Professor, Director, Precision Population Science Lab; Director, Integrating Special

Population Program of the Mayo Clinic CTSA Program; Department of Pediatrics and Department of

Internal Medicine; Mayo Clinic, USA

14:20-14:45

Title: TBD
Dr. Hüseyin FIRAT, Professor, CEO-CSO, FIRALIS S.A., France

14:45-15:10

Speech Opportunity Available

15:10-15:30

Coffee Break

 

 

Session 1-9: Drug Discovery Pharmacology and Toxicology

 

Chair

 

Dr. Marco Falasca, Professor, Head Metabolic Signalling Group, School of Pharmacy & Biomedical Sciences,

Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University, Australia

Co-Chair

Dr. Vivek (Vic) Kadambi, Senior Vice President, Quantitative Pharmacology & Drug Safety, Blueprint Medicines, USA

Speech Time

Speaker's Profile

13:30-13:55

Title: Animal Testing Enables Safe Entry to First-In-Human Clinical Trials: The IQ Nonclinical to Clinical

Translational Database
Dr. Vivek (Vic) Kadambi, Senior Vice President, Quantitative Pharmacology & Drug Safety, Blueprint Medicines, USA

13:55-14:20

Title: Strategic roadmap to increase the antineoplastic activity and to diminish toxicity of anticancer compounds
Dr. Marco Falasca, Professor &Head Metabolic Signalling Group, School of Pharmacy & Biomedical Sciences,

Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University, Australia

14:20-14:45

Speech Opportunity Available

14:45-15:10

Title: Repurposing of Clinical Drugs for Radioprotection
Dr. Amit Alok, Scientist D, Division of Radiation Biodosimetry, Institute of Nuclear Medicine & Allied Sciences, India

15:10-15:30

Coffee Break

 

Day 3, August 14, 2021
MORNING

 

Session 1-10: Marine Drugs and Natural Products in Drug Discovery and Development

 

Chair

Dr. Lijun NI, Professor, Chemistry & Molecular Engineering School, East China Univ. Sci. & Tech., China

Co-Chair

Call for Co-Chair

Speech Time

Speaker's Profile

9:00-9:25

Title: A strategy for discovering new candidate Chinese medicine formula based on quantitative pharmacology

analysis
Dr. Lijun NI, Professor, Chemistry & Molecular Engineering School, East China Univ. Sci. & Tech., China

9:25-9:50

Title: Study of Laccase-Catalysed Synthesis of Urushiol Coumarin Derivatives and as hCA Inhibitor
Dr. Cheng-Zhang Wang, Professor, Institute of Chemical Industry of Forestry Products, China

9:50-10:15

Title: Study of Laccase-Catalysed Synthesis of Urushiol Coumarin Derivatives and as hCA Inhibitor
Dr. Hao Zhou, Associate professor, Institute of Chemical Industry of Forest Products, CAF, China

10:15-10:30

Coffee Break

10:30-10:55

Title: TBD
Dr. Pharkphoom Panichayupakaranant, Assoc. Prof. &Director of Phytomedicine and Pharmaceutical

Biotechnology Excellence Center, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Prince of Songkla University, Thailand

10:55-11:20

Speech Opportunity Available

11:20-11:45

Title: Establishing a method of analysis and standardization study of oral drops formula from Paronychia argentea extract
Dr. Suleiman Olimat, Professor, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan

 

 

Session 1-11: Novel Drug Targets for Personalized Precision Medicine

 

Chair

Call for Chair

Co-Chair

Dr. Junwen Wang, Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Center for Individualized Medicine & Department of

Health Sciences Research & Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Mayo Clinic

Arizona & Affiliate Professor, College of Health Solutions, Arizona State University, USA

Speech Time

Speaker's Profile

9:00-9:25

Speech Opportunity Available

9:25-9:50

Speech Opportunity Available

9:50-10:15

Dr. Junwen Wang, Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Center for Individualized Medicine & Department of

Health Sciences Research & Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Mayo Clinic

Arizona & Affiliate Professor, College of Health Solutions, Arizona State University, USA

10:15-10:30

Coffee Break

 

 

Session 1-12: Small Molecule Drug Discovery

 

Chair

 

Dr. Qun (Max) Dang, Corporate Vice President,CSPC PHARMA LTD., China

Co-Chair

Call for Co-Chair

Speech Time

Speaker's Profile

9:00-9:25

Speech Opportunity Available

9:25-9:50

Title: IO therapies beyond checkpoint inhibitors
Dr. Qun (Max) Dang, Corporate Vice President,CSPC PHARMA LTD., China

9:50-10:15

Speech Opportunity Available

10:15-10:30

Coffee Break

 

 

Session 1-13: CNS Drug Discovery & Therapy

 

Chair

 

Dr. Kiminobu Sugaya, Professor of Medicine, Head of Neuroscience, University of Central Florida, USA

Co-Chair

Call for Co-Chair

Speech Time

Speaker's Profile

9:00-9:25

Title: KS-217, a small molecular compound for neuro- regeneration therapies
Dr. Kiminobu Sugaya, Professor and Head of Neuroscience, Chair of Multidisciplinary Neuroscience Alliance,

College of Medicine, University of Central Florida, Orlando FL, USA

9:25-9:50

Speech Opportunity Available

9:50-10:15

Title: Stapled peptide ligands for neuropsychiatric disorders
Dr. Gavin Stewart DAWE, Associate Professor, National University of Singapore, Singapore

10:15-10:30

Coffee Break

 

Day 3, August 14, 2021
AFTERNOON

 

Session 1-14: Cardiovascular Drug Discovery & Therapy

 

Chair

 

Dr. John A. Cidlowski, Chief, Signal Transduction Laboratory and Principal Investigator, National Institutes of

Health, USA

Co-Chair

Dr.Moo Hyun Kim, PI, Global Clinical Trial Center
Director, Dept. of Cardiology; Professor, College of Medicine, Dong-A University Hospital, Republic of Korea

Speech Time

Speaker's Profile

13:30-13:55

Title: New Developments in Corticosteroid Regulation of Heart Disease
John A. Cidlowski, Chief, Signal Transduction Laboratory and Principal Investigator, National Institutes of

Health, USA

13:55-14:20

Speech Opportunity Available

14:20-14:45

Speech Opportunity Available

14:45-15:10

Speech Opportunity Available

15:10-15:30

Coffee Break

 

 

Session 1-15: Anti-Cancer Drug Discovery and Therapy

 

Chair

Dr. C. I. Edvard SMITH, Professor, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden

Co-Chair

Dr. Bulent Ozpolat, Associate Professor, Department of Experimental Therapeutics, MD Anderson Cancer Center,

The University of Texas, USA

Speech Time

Speaker's Profile

13:30-13:55

Title: Development of tumor-targeted RNA nanotherapeutics for breast cancer
Dr. Bulent Ozpolat, Associate Professor, Department of Experimental Therapeutics, MD Anderson Cancer Center,

The University of Texas, USA

13:55-14:20

Title: Targeted nanoparticles for diagnostic and theranostic applications
Dr. Paul Millner, Professor of Bionanotechnology, Bioincubator Laboratories,Garstang Building, University of Leeds, UK

14:20-14:45

Title: Future prospects for cancer vaccines
Dr. Nikolai Petrovsky, Professor of Medicine, Flinders University, Austria

14:45-15:10

Title: Human Papillomavirus Infection in genital Women in four regions of Senegal
Dr. El Hadji Seydou Mbaye, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC/WHO), Lyon, France

15:10-15:30

Coffee Break

15:30-15:55 Speech Opportunity Available
15:55-16:20 Speech Opportunity Available

 

 

Session 1-16: Emerging Infectious Diseases Drug Discovery and Therapy

 

Chair

Dr. Jean-Denis Docquier, Associate Professor, Department of Medical Biotechnology, University of Siena, Italy

Co-Chair

Call for Co-Chair

Speech Time

Speaker's Profile

13:30-13:55

Speech Opportunity Available

13:55-14:20

Title: Challenges in the discovery and development of new antibiotics addressing resistance in Gram-negative

bacteria
Jean-Denis Docquier, Associate Professor, University of Siena Department of Medical Biotechnology, Italy

14:20-14:45

Speech Opportunity Available

14:45-15:10

Title: Nanomaterials for alternative antibacterial therapy
Dr. Hassan Hemeg , Assistant Professor, Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences, Faculty of Applied

Medical Sciences, Taibah University, KSA

15:10-15:30

Coffee Break

 

 

Session 1-17: Antibody  Drug Discovery and Development

 

Chair

Dr. Jing Li, Senior Vice President, WuXi Biologics, China

Co-Chair

Dr. Le Sun, CEO, AbMax Biotechnology Co.,Ltd., China

Speech Time

Speaker's Profile

13:30-13:55

Title: Bispecific antibody discovery and development
Dr. Jing Li, Senior Vice President, WuXi Biologics, China

13:55-14:20

Title: Removal of ADCC/ADCP functions of IgG1 Fc for safer and more effective antibody drug
Dr. Le Sun, CEO, AbMax Biotechnology Co.,Ltd., China

14:20-14:45

Dr. Chadwick T. King, Executive Director, Antibody Discovery Research, Site Head Amgen British Columbia, Canada

14:45-15:10

Title: Structure-based Antigen Design: a rational high-throughput strategy for drug discovery
Dr. ManHee Suh, CTO, Founder, Kactus Biosystems, China

15:10-15:30

Coffee Break

15:30-15:55

Title: TBD
Dr. Rui Gong, Professor, Head of Antibody Engineering Group, Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases,

CAS Key Laboratory of Special Pathogens and Biosafety, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of

Sciences, China

15:55-16:20

Title: Development of a Bispecific Antibody Targeting VEGF and DLL4 (ABL001/NOV1501/TR009) for Cancer Treatment
Dr. Weon-Kyoo You, Head of R&D, Executive vice President, ABL Bio Inc., Republic of Korea

16:20-16:45

Speech Opportunity Available

 

 

Session 1-18: Biosimilar Drug Product Development

 

Chair

Dr. Bert E. Thomas IV, Senior Vice President, Business Development, Bio-Thera Solutions, Ltd., USA

Co-Chair

Call for Co-Chair

Speech Time

Speaker's Profile

13:30-13:55

Speech Opportunity Available

13:55-14:20

Title: TBD
Dr. Bert E. Thomas IV, Senior Vice President, Business Development, Bio-Thera Solutions, Ltd., USA

14:20-14:45

Title: TBD
Dr. Annpey Pong, Merck Research Laboratories, USA

14:45-15:10

Speech Opportunity Available

15:10-15:30

Coffee Break

 

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