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SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM
Friday, December 11, 2026
Thursday, December 10, 2026
Wednesday, December 9,
2026
9:00 h
-
11:00 h
Oral Communication (PhD Students; 10 min + 5min discussion)
Room 1 (Non
-
Infectious diseases)
:
Chair
: Manuela Lanzetti
(
ICB, UFRJ, Brazil)
Room 2 (Infectious diseases)
:
Chair
: Floriano Paes Silva Júnior (IOC,
Fiocruz
, Brazil)
9:00 h
-
11:00 h
Thematic Session
: Drug Discovery in Latin America
Speaker 1
: Rocío Spinoza
–
UPC, Peru
Title
:
Pivoting Peruvian medicinal chemistry by rational design: smalls
molecules, pharmacophores and protein selective degradation efforts
in DIM group
Speaker 2
: Elena Aguilera
–
Facultad
de
Ciéncias
–
URU, Uruguay
Title
:
Medicinal Chemistry and Drug Repurposing for Neglected
Trypanosomatid
Diseases: From Hits to Preclinical Candidates
Speaker 3
: Pedro de Sena
Murteira
Pinheiro
–
UFRJ, Brazil
Title
:
Today We ROCK: The Discovery of ROCK Inhibitors for Complex
Diseases
Speaker 4
: Mariela Bollini
–
CONICET. Argentina
Title
:
From Molecular Design to Pharmacological Profiling of Novel
Antivirals Against Chikungunya Virus
Chair
: Jeanine
Giarolla
Vargas (FCF, USP, Brazil)
9:00 h
-
10:00 h
Opening Ceremony
10:00 h
-
11:00 h
Opening conference
Speaker:
Professor Craig W. Lindsley
-
Editor
-
in
-
Chief of the Journal of Medicinal
Chemistry
-
VUSM, United States
Title:
Nondopaminergic approaches for the treatment of movement disorders
—
from concept to clinic
Chair:
Lucienne Morcillo (ICB, UFRJ, Brazil)
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, Brazil) and Patrícia Machado
Rodrigues e Silva Martins
(
IOC,
Fiocruz
, Brazil)
Room 2 (Infectious diseases)
:
Chair
: Núbia
Boechat
(
IOC,
Fiocruz
, Brazil) and
Luzineide
W. Tinoco
(
IPPN,
UFRJ)
11:20 h
-
13:20 h
Thematic Session
: Highlights in Pharmacology and Medicinal
Chemistry
Speaker 1:
Philipp O Tsvetkov
–
MU, France.
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 SUSPS, China
Title:
Recent Advances in Antiviral Medicinal Chemistry
Speaker 3:
György Miklós Keserű
–
RCNS, Hungary
Title:
Mapping protein
-
protein interaction surfaces by photoactivable
molecular fragments
Chair:
Arthur E.
Kümmerle
(IQ,
UFRRJ, Brazil)
11:20 h
-
13:20 h
Thematic Session
: Drug Discovery in Latin America
Speaker 1:
Gildardo Rivera Sánchez
–
IPN
–
Mexico.
Title:
Heterocyclic N
-
oxides, a scaffold to develop new antiparasitic drugs
Speaker 2:
Cristian Salas
–
UCC
-
Chile
Title:
Development of new chemotherapeutic strategies targeting Bcr
-
AblT315I,
which is responsible for imatinib resistance in chronic myeloid leukemia
Speaker 3:
Hugo
Cerecetto
–
URU, Uruguay
Title:
The use of single
-
chain oligonucleotides, aptamers, to target agents for
diagnosis and therapy
Speaker 4:
Carlos Maurício R. Sant’Anna
–
UFRRJ, Brazil
Title:
Using Empirical Free Energy Models in Medicinal Chemistry: Theoretical
Aspects and Applications
Chair
: Norma Angélica Valencia
-
Islas
(
UNC, 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
-
NU, United States
Title
:
Activating Neurolysin with Designed Small Molecules: A New
Target for Ischemic Stroke Drug Discovery
Speaker 2
:
Professor Donna Huryn
-
UP, United States
Title
:
Targeting the AAA ATPase p97/VCP to
Modulate Protein
Homeostasis: Medicinal Chemistry Strategies and Biological Insights
Chair
: Lídia Moreira Lima (ICB, UFRJ, Brazil)
14:40 h
–
16:40 h
Thematic Session
: Highlights in Pharmacology and Medicinal
Chemistry
Speaker 1
: Markus Sperandio
–
LMUM, 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
–
MSSU, Hungary
Title
:
Cytosolic delivery of biologics including antibodies against
cancer
Chair
: Marco Aurélio Martins (IOC,
Fiocruz
, Brazil)
14:40 h
-
16:40 h
Thematic Session
: New Modalities in Drug Discovery
Speaker 1
: to be announced
Title
:
to be announced
Speaker 2
: David Heppner
–
BU,
United States
Title
:
Rewiring and Optimizing Drug Discovery Through Studies of Protein
Kinase Inhibitors
Speaker 3
: Matthias Gehringer
-
UT, Germany
Title
:
Covalent Inhibitors of Protein Kinases: Unlocking Unconventional
Binding Modes and Understudied Targets
Chair
: Matthias Gehringer (UT, 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 Ceremony
17:00 h
-
18:00 h
Poster section
17:00 h
-
18:00 h
Poster section
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