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SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM
Friday, December 11, 2026
Thursday, December 10, 2026
Wednesday, December 9,
2026
-
-
9:00 h
-
10:00 h
Opening
Ceremony
9:00 h
-
11:00 h
Thematic Session
: Highlights in Pharmacology and Medicinal
Chemistry
Speaker 1:
Philipp O Tsvetkov
–
Marseille University, França.
Title:
New Opportunities for Drug Repurposing: Tubulin as a Well
-
Established Yet Underexploited Target
Speaker 2:
Professor Peng Zhan
–
Associate Editor of European
Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
-
Shandong University School of
Pharmaceutical Sciences, Jinan, Shandong, China
Title:
Recent Advances in Antiviral Medicinal Chemistry
Speaker 3:
György Miklós Keserű
–
Research Center for Natural
Sciences, Hungary
Title:
Mapping protein
-
protein interaction surfaces by photoactivable
molecular fragments
Chair
:
Arthur E.
Kümmerle
–
IQ, UFRRJ
9:00 h
-
11:00 h
Thematic Session
: Drug Discovery in Latin America
Speaker 1
: RocÃo Spinoza
–
Universidad Peruana de
Ciencias
Aplicadas
UPC, Peru
Title
: to be announced
Speaker 2
: Marcos Couto
–
Facultad
de
Ciéncias
-
Universidad
de la República de Uruguay
Title
: to be announced
Speaker 3
: Pedro de Sena
Murteira
Pinheiro
–
Federal
University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Title
: To be announced
Speaker 4
: Mariela Bollini
–
CONICET. Argentina
Title
: to be announced
Chair
: Jeanine
Giarolla
Vargas
–
FCF, USP
10:00 h
-
11:00 h
Opening conference
Speaker:
Professor Craig W. Lindsley
-
Editor
-
in
-
Chief of the Journal of
Medicinal Chemistry
-
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, United
States
Title:
to be announced
Chair:
Lucienne Morcillo
–
ICB, UFRJ
11:00 h
-
11:20 h
Coffee
-
break
11:00 h
-
11:20 h
Coffee
-
break
11:00 h
-
11:20 h
Coffee
-
break
11:20 h
–
13:20 h
Oral communication (Post
-
doc; 10 min + 5 min discussion)
Room 1 (Non
-
Infectious diseases
):
Chair
:
João Alfredo de Moraes
–
ICB, UFRJ
and
PatrÃcia Machado
Rodrigues e Silva Martins
–
LanInfla
, IOC, Fiocruz
Room 2 (Infectious diseases)
:
Chair
: Núbia Boechat
–
IOC, Fiocruz
and
Luzineide W. Tinoco
–
IPPN, UFRJ
11:20 h
-
13:20 h
Oral Communication (PhD Students; 10 min + 5min discussion)
Room 1 (Non
-
Infectious diseases)
:
Chair
: Manuela Lanzetti
–
ICB, UFRJ
Room 2 (Infectious diseases)
:
Chair
: Floriano Paes Silva Júnior
–
IOC, Fiocruz
11:20 h
-
13:20 h
Thematic Session
: Drug Discovery in Latin America
Speaker 1:
Gildardo Rivera Sánchez
–
Centro de BiotecnologÃa
Genómica, Instituto Politécnico Nacional
–
México.
Title
:
to
be
announced
Speaker 2:
Cristian Salas
–
Universidade
Católica do Chile
-
Chile
Title:
to be announced
Speaker 3:
Hugo
Cerecetto
–
Universidad de la República de Uruguay,
Uruguay
Title:
to be announced
Speaker 4:
Carlos MaurÃcio R. Sant’Anna
–
UFRRJ, Brazil
Title:
to be announced
Chair
:
Norma Angélica Valencia
-
Islas
–
Universidad Nacional de
Colombia: Bogotá, Colombia
Friday, December 11, 2026
Thursday, December 10, 2026
Wednesday, December 9,
2026
13:20 h
-
14:40 h
Lunch and technical seminar
13:20 h
-
14:40 h
Lunch and technical seminar
13:20 h
-
14:40 h
Lunch and technical seminar
14:40 h
–
16:40 h
Keynote Lectures
Speaker 1
:
Paul
Trippier
-
Nebraska University, Omaha, USA
Title
: to be announced
Speaker 2
:
Professor Donna Huryn
-
University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Title
:
Targeting the AAA ATPase p97/VCP to
Modulate Protein
Homeostasis: Medicinal Chemistry Strategies and Biological
Insights
Chair
: LÃdia Moreira Lima (
LASSBio
, ICB, UFRJ)
14:40 h
–
16:40 h
Thematic Session
: Highlights in Pharmacology and Medicinal
Chemistry
Speaker 1
: Markus Sperandio
–
Ludiwig
-
Maximilians
-
Universität
-
München,
Germany
Title
: to be announced
Speaker 2
: Bahne Stechmann
-
EU
-
OPENSCREEN ERIC,
Berlin, Germany
Title
: EU
-
OPENSCREEN
-
A research infrastructure for
collaborative research projects in chemical biology and early
drug discovery
Speaker 3
: Tamas Martinek
–
Medical School of Szeged
University, Hungary
Title
:
Cytosolic delivery of biologics including antibodies
against cancer
Chair
: Marco Aurélio Martins (
LanInfla
, IOC,
Fiocruz
)
14:40 h
-
16:40 h
Thematic Session
: New Modalities in Drug Discovery
Speaker 1
: to be announced
Title
: to be announced
Speaker 2
: To be announced
Title
: to be announced
Speaker 3
: David Heppner
–
Buffalo University, New York, USA
Title
: to be announced
Session moderator and coordinator
: Matthias Gehringer
-
University of
Tübingen, Germany.
16:40 h
-
17:00 h
Coffee
-
break
16:40 h
-
17:00 h
Coffee
-
break
16:40 h
-
17:00 h
Coffee
-
break
17:00h
–
18:00 h
Awards
Session
and
Closing
section
17:00 h
-
18:00 h
Poster
section
17:00 h
-
18:00 h
Poster
section
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