Enabling Development of Novel Therapeutics Through Innovative Analytical Technologies and Methods

Structural elucidation plays an essential part in understanding the fundamental biology of diseases, discovering and developing novel medications to improve human health. For instance, protein structure elucidation provides critical insights on mechanism and guide the design of novel drug candidate; absolute stereochemistry determination and metabolite identification are important aspects in drug discovery; synthetic process impurity and drug degradate structural elucidation are necessary in drug development. Structural elucidation includes not only how atoms are connected, but also how molecules adapt to different conformations and interact with each other. Due to the complexity and diversity of this challenge through the life cycle of medicine development, the success of structural elucidation requires an array of complementary analytical technologies rather than a particular one. The aim of the conference is to highlight major developments in analytical technologies and applications in core areas of structure elucidation and biological function. Furthermore, the conference will create a forum to bring researchers from academia, analytical instrument and pharmaceutical industries together for the common goal of transforming fundamental sciences into meaningful therapeutics.