Applied Pharmaceutical Chemistry 2026 

Pfizer, Cambridge, MA

 Thursday, April 2, 2026

 

Confirmed speakers for APC 2026

 

Plenary Lecture:

Gregory L. Verdine, PhD

Ervin Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology @ Harvard University 

The Radicalization of Drug Discovery

 

Plenary Lecture:

Yu-Shan Lin, PhD

Professor and Department Chair, Chemistry @ Tufts University

Structure Prediction of Cyclic Peptides Via Molecular Dynamics and Machine Learning 

       
 

Rebecca Swett, PhD

Director of Computational Chemistry Innovation @ X-Chem

Computational chemistry - Title TBA

 

Taylor Quinn, PhD

Associate Principal Scientist @ AstraZeneca

AI in drug discovery (developing the Cbl-b inhibitors for cancer immunotherapy)- Title TBA 

       

Ludivine Moine, MSc

Senior Scientist II @ Blueprint Medicines

Design and Synthesis of BLU-654, a Potent and Selective Mutant KIT V654A Inhibitor for the Treatment of imatinib-resistant GIST

 

Murray Wan, PhD

Principal Scientist @ Mariana Oncology a Novartis Company

ETN029:Discovery of a DLL3-targeted Radioligand Therapy for the Treatment of SCLC and Beyond

       
 

 

Anne Marinier, PhD

Director of the Discovery Unit, IRIC; Prof. Department of Pharmacology & Physiology, University de Montreal

Topic: UM171, a molecular glue (leukemia/blood cancer treatment) - talk title TBA

 

Elsie Yu, PhD

Associate Principal Scientist @ Merck

IL4i1 Inhibitors from Target Validation Through to First-In-Human Studies in Cancer Patients

 

Momar Toure, PhD

Director, Medicinal Chemistry @ MOMA Therapeutics

Speaker name TBA

Topic: Inhibitor of WRN Helicase

 

Abba Leffler, PhD

Senior Principal Scientist, Computational Chemistry @ Schrodinger

Talk title TBA

 

       
       

 

Stay tuned for the 2026 APC program!

We are putting together an excited lineup of speakers and topics, which will be announced soon.

  

 

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Sessions

Session I:  TBA

Session II: TBA

Session III: TBA

Registration

Click here to register for the APC 2025 conference.

APC 2025 will take place April 10, 2025 at:

AstraZeneca, Waltham, MA

 

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