Post Date
Dec 16 2020

Symposium on Antiviral Drug Design and Discovery

The Bio-Organic and Medicinal Chemistry (BMC) at the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, SBASSE, LUMS has organized its first international symposium on “Antiviral Drug Design and Discovery” on October 10, 2020, Tuesday at 4 pm.

Speakers included globally recognized researchers in the area of drug design and discovery and highlighted the latest innovations and lessons from their laboratories. Speakers at the event:

  • Dr Jochen Bodem – Universitat Wurzburg Germany
  • Dr Alan C Spivey – Imperial College London UK
  • Dr Celia Schiffer – University of Massachusetts Medical School USA
  • Dr Connor Coley – Massachusetts Institute of Technology USA
  • Dr Akbar Ali – University of Massachusetts Medical School USA

Topics of Interest:

  1. Drug design
  2. Virology & Antivirals
  3. Organics synthesis
  4. Structure-activity relationship
  5. Computational chemistry