Speakers
Keynote speakers confirmed
Yimon Aye
University of Oxford, United Kingdom
“The many guises of reactive metabolite signaling”
Shankar Balasubramanian
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
“Chemical biology of the genome”
Christopher Chang
UC Berkeley Princeton University, USA
“Activity-Based Sensing: Leveraging Chemical Reactivity to Study Biology at the Atomic Scale”
Alessio Ciulli
University of Dundee, United Kingdom
“Induced Proximity-Pharmacology: PROTACs/Molecular Glue Degraders and beyond”
Matthew Disney
UF Scripps Research Institute, USA
“Sequence-based design of small molecules targeting RNA structure”
Amanda Hargrove
University of Toronto, Canada
Barbara Imperali
MIT, USA
“Rolling Out Glycan Assembly: A Tale of Two Topologies”
Daniel Nomura
UC Berkeley, USA
“Reimagining Druggability using Chemoproteomic Platforms”
Herbert Waldmann
MPI Dortmund, Germany
“Pseudo Natural Products – Chemical Evolution of Natural Product Structure”
Invited speakers confirmed
Jeanette Andersen
Arctic University of Tromsø, Norway
“Arctic marine bioactive compounds as a starting point for chemical optimization towards clinical candidates”
Jana Aupič
CNR-IOM Institute, Trieste, Italy
EuChemS ChemBioLife Award 2024
Xing Bengang
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
“Orthogonal Molecular Toolkits for Precison Bio-Imaging & Therapeutic ENCTACs Manipulation”
Sébastien Campagne
INSERM, ARNA unit, Bordeaux, France
“Specific splicing correction by small molecules and 5′-splice site bulge repair mechanism”
Arnaud Chevalier
CNRS-ICSN, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
SCF-ChemBio Young Researcher Award 2025
Zoe Cournia
Academy of Athens, Greece
“Predicting protein-ligand, protein-protein and protein-membrane interactions using molecular simulations and AI”
Ivan Dikic
Frankfurt University, Germany
“Targeting the Ubiquitin and Autophagy networks”
Lina El Hajji
LBM, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
SCF-ChemBio PhD Thesis Award 2025
Mélanie Ethève-Quelquejeu
Université Paris Descartes, France
“Chemical probes targeting β-lactam-binding proteins”
Jess Ewald
EMBL-EBI, Hinxton, United Kingdom
“Cell Painting for cytotoxicity and mode-of-action analysis in liver-relevant cell lines”
Fleur Ferguson
University of California San Diego, USA
“Interrogating the Druggable Proteome with Proximity Pharmacology”
Massimiliano Gaetani
Karolinska Institute, Sweden
Sébastien Gouin
Nantes Université, France
Claudia Höbartner
University of Würzburg, Germany
“Targeting RNA by alkyltransferase ribozymes”
Carsten Hopf
Hochschule Mannheim, Germany
“Spatial Chemical Biology and Spatial Metabolomics using Mass Spectrometry”
Julie Karpenko
LIT, Université de Strasbourg, France
SCF-ChemBio Young Researcher Award 2024
Olivier Loiseleur
Syngenta, Stein, Switzerland
“Natural Products In Modern Crop Protection Research”
Sereina Riniker
ETH Zürich, Switzerland
“Conformational flexibility of (bio)molecules: Combining experiments and computation”
Christopher Schmied
EU-OPENSCREEN, Germany
“Large scale Cell Painting dataset enables prediction of chemical compound properties”
Benjamin Schumann
The Francis Crick Institute/Imperial college, United Kingdom
“Chemical Precision Tools to Dissect Protein Glycosylation”
Nadja A. Simeth-Crespi
Georg-August-University of Göttingen, Germany
EuChemS ChemBioLife Award 2023
Marc Vendrell
University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
“Fluorescent Probes for Translational Bioimaging”
Louise Walport
The Francis Crick Institute/Imperial college, United Kingdom
“Found in translation: new target binding sites for cyclic peptides”