Peptide Therapeutics Forum 2024

Welcome to the website of the Peptide Therapeutics Forum 2024, which took place on August 22-23, 2024 at the Biozentrum Basel. Similar to previous events in the framework of Basel Life, presentations highlighted important new insights regarding the drug discovery of peptides including examples for successful development candidates. The forum disseminates information on latest news in the broad field of therapeutic peptides and enables networking of interested parties from academia and industries.

Speakers


Dr. Johannes Koebberling, Bayer
Dr. Aurelién Bigot, Syngenta
Dr. Florence Brunel, Novo Nordisk
Prof. César de la Fuente, University of Pennsylvania

Prof. César de la Fuente
University of Pennsylvania

Genapathy
Dr. Patrizio Mattei, F. Hoffmann-La Roche

Dr. Patrizio Mattei
F. Hoffmann-La Roche

Dr. Christina Schröder, Genentech
Prof. Roderich Süssmuth, TU Berlin
Prof. Meritxell Teixido, Gate2Brain
Prof. Louise Walport, The Francis Crick Institute

Dr. Louise Walport
The Francis Crick Institute / Imperial College London

Best Short Talk and Best Poster Prizes
The best short talks were honored with the Helvetica Best Short Talk award:

1st place: Alexander John Lander, University of Basel
«Development of a Leech-Inspired Bivalent Peptide to Inhibit Complement-Initiating Proteases»

Runner-up: Xing-Yu Liu, EPFL
«Peptide Hypervalent Iodine Conjugates: Enabling Peptide Functionalization and Macrocyclization»

Runner-up: Kevin Schiefelbein, University of Zurich
«Exploring the Chemical Space of Lasso Peptides by Merging Flow Synthesis and Enzymatic Transformation»

The two best poster presentations were honored with the Best Poster Award by ChemBioChem and ChemMedChem by Chemistry Europe:

- Gregoire Menoud, EPFL
«High-throughput synthesis and screening of mixture of cyclic peptides»

- Balint Tamas, University of Zurich
«Development of a self-optimizing platform for flow-based peptide synthesis»

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