Programme IASOC 2026
Thursday, September 17
| 13:30 | Registration |
| 16:00 | Opening |
| 16:30 | H. Suga (Tokyo, Japan) “Macrocyclic Peptides that Revolutionize the Peptide Therapeutics” |
| 17:45 | S Riela (Catania, Italy) “From Natural Nanotubes to Functional Platforms: Covalent Strategies for Halloysite-Based Hybrid Materials” |
| 20:30 | Welcome Party |
Friday, September 18
| 09:00 | V. Gouverneur (Oxford, UK) “Fluorochemicals: the Future We Want“ |
| 10:15 | F. Glorius (Münster, Germany) “Arene Hydrogenation, Photocatalysis, Smart Screening and Data Science – Game Changing Technologies” |
| 11:30 | Coffee break |
| 12:00 | Young fellow contribution: L. Capaldo (Parma, Italy) “Shaping the Future of Mechanochemistry with High-Throughput Experimentation and Machine Learning” |
| 12:30 | Young fellow contribution: C. Bonfio (Cambridge, UK) “Shaping Early Life: the Chemistry of Primitive Compartments” |
| 16:00 | Poster Session |
| Coffee break | |
| Free Dinner |
Saturday, September 19
| 09:00 | F. Gosselin (South San Francisco, USA) “Merging Asymmetric Catalysis and Data Science for Efficiency and Selectivity in Process Chemistry‘” |
| 10:15 | E. Hevia (Bern, Switzerland) “Unleashing the Power of Alkali-Metal Mediation for Arene Functionalisation and Catalysis” |
| 11:30 | Coffee break |
| 12:00 | F. Micoli (GSK, Siena, Italy) “Design and Development of a Vaccine Against Shigella” |
| 13:30 | Lunch |
| 15:00 | MedChem Session Discussion leader: P. Tagari (Insitro, Newbury Park, USA) Special Session “New Trends in Oncology Small Molecule Therapeutics” A. Hager (Bayer Pharmaceuticals, Wuppertal, Germany) “Drug Discovery – Why Strategy and Focus Matters” Laura Evans (AstraZeneca, Cambridge, UK) “Discovery of AZD9750: an Orally Bioavailable Androgen Receptor Degrader for the Treatment of Prostate Cancer” |
| 16:15 | Coffee break |
| 16:45 | S. Cotesta (Novartis Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland) “Computational Chemistry in Drug Discovery” J. Maxwell (Tango Therapeutics, Boston, USA) “Oxamide-Based MTA-Cooperative PRMT5 Inhibitor Discovery Including Vopimetostat and TNG4” |
| 19:30 | Short Pizza Party |
| 21:00 | Poster Selected Flash Communications |
| 22:30 | Special Presentation Workshop |
| F. Glorius (Münster, Germany) “I have a dream!” | |
Sunday, September 20
| 09:00 | M.S. Sigman (Salt Lake, USA) “Developing Data Science and ML Tools for Synthetic Chemists” |
| 10:15 | S. Kara (Hannover, Germany) “Intensification of Biocatalytic Processes Towards Industrial Volumetric Productivities” |
| 11:30 | Coffee break |
| 12:00 | R. Luisi (Bari, Italy) “Integrating Chemical and Digital Technologies to Explore New Chemical Space” |
| Free Time | |
| 20:30 | Social Dinner |
Monday, September 21
| 08:45 | D. Leonori (Aachen, Germany) “Novel Synthetic Methods Using Photochemistry and Photocatalysis” |
| 10:00 | T. Weil (Mainz, Germany) “Integrating Soft and Living Matter” |
| 11:15 | Aldo Caputo Memorial Prize |
| 11:45 | D. Dixon (Oxford, UK) “Exploring and Exploiting New Iminophosphorane Reactivity for Complex Molecule Synthesis“ |
| 13:00 | Closing remarks |
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