Registration

Welcome Address

Address by the Conference Chair

Coffee Break and Networking

Shifting Paradigm for Development of Traditional Medicine – Farm to Pharma
Pulok K Mukherjee, Director- School of Natural Product Studies, Jadavpur University, India

Advances in Natural Product-based Drug Discovery: Success Story of Swertiamarin
Ramesh Goyal, Distinguished Professor, Ahmedabad University, India

Development of Novel Potential Cancer Therapeutics
Paturu Kondaiah, Professor, Indian Institute of Science, India

Modern Tools to Mine Traditional Medicine
Badireenath Konkimalla, Reader-F, National Institute of Science Education and Research, India

Drug Discovery from Natural Sources- Pre-clinical to Clinical
Pralhad Patki, Head, The Himalaya Drug, India

Commercial Use of Endophytic Fungi for Industrial Production of Bioactive Secondary Metabolites
Chelliah Jayabaskaran, Professor, Indian Institute of Science, India

Technology Spotlight:
Enabling Drug Discovery for Natural & Synthetic Products: A New Approach
K K Bhagchandani, Director, Advanced Chemistry Development Inc

Lunch and Networking

Atherosclerosis: New perspectives, Therapeutic Strategies and Translational Challenges
Dipak Ramji, Professor, Cardiff University, United Kingdom

Novel Translational Approach to Neurodegenerative Disease; Peptides Derived from the Activator of Neuronal Cell Cycle like Kinase (Cdk5) Prevented Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) Phenotypes in AD Model Mice.
Harish Pant, Senior Investigator, National Institute of Health, United States of America

Ascent of Coenzyme Q
T. Ramasarma, Professor, Indian Institute of Science, India

The Evaluation of the Effect of Fibrinolytic Drugs on the Vasopressin Elicited Phospholipase C Activity in the Goat Kidney
Manoj Tyagi, Professor of Pharmacology, Christian Medical College, India

Virtual Screening Techniques in Lead Identification : What to Expect ?
G Sastry, Sr Principal Scientist, Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, India

Coffee Break and Networking

OpenSource Chemoinformatics Tools and Methods for Virtual Screening
M Karthikeyan, Chemoinformatics Scientist, National Chemical Laboratory, India

Genomic Approaches to Drug Discovery
Kalpana Joshi, Professor & Head, Sinhgad College of Engineering, India

Technology Spotlight:
Director, GVK Biosciences
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End of the Day

Drinks Reception and Networking in the Exhibition Area

Biodiversity, Chemical Diversity and Phytodrugs
Swati Joshi, Scientist F, National Chemical Laboratory, India

Challenges in Drug Development for Dengue Fever: Immunoregulatory Aspects Associated with Hemorrhagic Manifestations
Kenneth Gollob, Professor, Institute for Education and Research, Brazil

Repurposing Old Drugs for New Regimens for Tuberculosis
Amit Singhal, Senior Research Scientist, Agency for Science Technology & Research A*Star, Singapore

Coffee Break and Networking

Whole animal HTS: A Novel Antibacterial Drug Discovery Platform
Horst Flotow, Senior Project Manager, D3 (Drug Discovery and Development)e, Singapore

EU-OPENSCREEN – Building a Pan-European Resource and Infrastructure to Support Chemical Biology Research
Ronald Frank, Coordinator, The Leibniz Institute for Molecular Pharmacology, Germany

Technology Spotlight:
Potential of Proteomics and Cellular Analysis in Drug Discovery and Early Toxicology Studies– GE Healthcare Integrated Platforms
Lalith Kishore, General Manager - Research Products, GE Healthcare Lifescience

Novel Enabling Synthetic Strategies: Sustainable Technologies in Academic Drug Discovery Research".
N Shankaraiah, Assistant Professor, NIPER, Hyderabad, India

New Drug Discovery: Challenges and Opportunities-Industry Perspective
Balachandra Bandodkar, General Manager, Alkem Laboratories, China

Design of Drug Molecules in Reversing Multidrug Resistance in Cancer cells
Mayur Yergeri, Professor & Prinicipal, Dr Bhanuben Nanavati College of Pharmacy, India

Lunch Break and Networking

Poster Session

Drug Discovery, Current and Future Perspectives
D Giles, Professor, Acharya Bm Reddy College of Pharmacy, India

Importance of Collaboration between Biopharma Industry and Academia for Human Resource Development
Ramesh Sane, Director, Guru Nanak Khalsa college of Art, Science & Commerce, India

Open Innovation through Industry and Academia collaboration
Manish Diwan, Associate Director, Daiichi Sankyo India Pharma Private Limited, India

Special Lecture: Non-profit Pharma: A New Paradigm for Innovation
Krishna Kodukula, Executive Director, CADRE, SRI International, United States of America

Coffee Break and Networking

Current Trends in Contract Research Landscape
M Bhupathy, Executive Director, Amgen Inc, United States of America

Current Trends in Contract Research Landscape.
John Watson, Director, Promega Corporation, United States of America

Current Trends in Contract Research Landscape
Thomas Antony, Research Director, Aurigene Discovery Technologies Limited, India

Current Trends in Contract Research Landscape
Jayashree Aiyar, VP, Jubliant Biosys, India

Current Trends in Contract Research Landscape
Sudhir Singh, Senior Vice President, GVK Biosciences Inc, India

Current Trends in Contract Research Landscape
Manjunath Ramarao, Group Director and Head, Disease Sciences and Technology, Bristol-Myers Squibb India Pvt Ltd, India

Current Trends in Contract Research Landscape
Manoj Nerurkar, Chief Operating Officer, Syngene International, India

Poster Award Presentation & Closing Remarks by Conference Chair