PCF2022, Basel
Introduction
The PhysChem forum PCF2022 is announced. The meeting, "New modalities: therapeutic opportunities for challenging biological targets" will be hosted by Novartis at their Basel Pavillon in Switzerland on 31st October and 1st November 2022. The meeting will start around 6pm on the 31st and conclude around 5pm on the 1st. As always the plenary lecture will be delivered (to be announced) in the evening of the 31st of October followed by the gala dinner at the Odelya Hotel. PhysChem Forum's meetings are free to attend and delegates are not charged for registration, however delegates will have to pay their own expenses including dinner at the plenary lecture (if they wish to attend), travel, and accommodation.
The registration deadline has been extended until 21st October giving you a final chance to register for this exciting event.
Accomodation
Delegates are responsible for arranging their own accommodation. We have negotiated preferential room rates for those wishing to book accommodation at the designated conference hotel, the Odelya Hotel, Missionsstrasse 21, CH-4055 Basel. There are rooms available with a preferred discount. Please use the promotion code Novartis2210. Please note that after 8th October this promotion code will no longer be valid.
Travel to the symposium
Basel has an international airport and a train station. The hotel can be reached by using the tram 3 and stop at the Pilgerstrasse stop. Alternatively accessible from the stop Spalentor and the buses 30 and 33. Travel on public transport in Basel is free for delegates: from airport to hotel simply show proof of hotel booking; once at the hotel you will be provided with a "Basel Card" which provides free use of public transport (this has been confirmed by the hotel Odelya).
Monday 31st October 2022
Hotel Odelya, Missionsstrasse 21, CH-4055 Basel. Keynote lecture followed by a symposium dinner.
Tuesday 1st November 2022
At the Novartis Pavillon – Novartis Campus, CH-4056, Basel, Switzerland. Google map link and official site map (pdf).
Registration
Registration is open, please complete this form. The extended and final deadline for registration is 21st October 2022.
Programme
Monday 31st October 2022, at the Odelya Hotel, Basel.
| Time | Session |
|---|---|
| Chair | Antonio Llinas (AstraZeneca, Sweden) |
| 1800-1830 | Drinks and registration |
| 1830-1930 | Intestinal absorption of macromolecules: important of permeation enhancers and dosage form design Prof Christel Bergström (Univ. Uppsala, Sweden) |
| 1930-2200 | Symposium dinner |
Tuesday 1st November 2022, at the Novartis campus site, CH-4056, Basel.
Google maps link here, directions from hotel here. The hotel will provide tram tickets and directions to the Novartis site, there is no need for delegates to arrange their own tram tickets.
| Time | Session |
|---|---|
| Chair | Antonio Llinas, AstraZeneca, Sweden |
| 0830-0900 | Late registration and poster set-up |
| 0900-0910 | Welcome |
| 0910-0950 | Chameleonicity to design and optimise drug candidates in the bRo5 chemical space Prof Giulia Caron (Univ. Torino, Italy) |
| 0950-1030 | Oligonucleotides for therapeutic respiratory targets Erica Bäckström (AstraZeneca, Sweden) |
| 1030-1100 | Coffee break and poster viewing |
| Chair | Stephane Rodde (Basel, Switzerland) |
| 1100-1140 | Gastro auto-injectors for delivering peptides and antibodies orally Stephen Buckley (Novo Nordisk, Denmark) |
| 1140-1220 | Dendrimers in the new modalities space: identifying critical quality attributes to enable drug product development Mariarosa Mazza (AstraZeneca, UK) |
| 1220-1240 | Flash poster session (authors introduce their posters, maximum 2 minutes each) |
| 1240-1340 | Lunch and poster viewing |
| Chair | Karl Box (Pion) |
| 1340-1420 | Characterisation and interactions of protein therapeutics with biological fluids Prof. Tudor Arvinte (Univ. Geneva) |
| 1420-1500 | CP-MS: an enabling technology for the development of Radioligand Therapy (RLT) molecules Patrick Schindler (Novartis, Switzerland) |
| 1500-1530 | Poster prize award, coffee, poster viewing |
| Chair | Jonathan Burley (Univ. Nottingham, UK) |
| 1530-1610 | In silico exploration of cyclic peptides - conformations, permeability and stereochemistry Prof. Sereina Riniker (ETH, Zurich) |
| 1610-1650 | Targeting microRNA as an emerging novel therapeutic approach Anna Rydzik (AstraZeneca, Sweden) |
| 1650-1700 | Wrap-up and depart |
Supporters and sponsors
The PhysChem Forum is very grateful to our host Novartis and our sponsors for helping us run PCF2022 as a free-to-attend event.
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