2024 Agenda
2024 Agenda
Monday 11th November
08:00 - 09:00
Registration
09:15 - 09:30
Andrew Ledgard
Exscientia, Oxford, UK
Introduction to ASF 2024
Session 1 - Plenary talk
09:30 - 10:30
Assoc. Prof. Connor Coley
MIT, USA
Challenges beyond the hardware: Computer-aided design & scheduling of automated synthesis protocols
10:30 - 10:45
Break & exhibition
Session 1 - AI/ML and automation
10:45 - 11:05
Dr Samuel Genheden
AstraZeneca, Gothenburg, Sweden
TBA
11:05 - 11:25
Dr Mark Warne
Deepmatter, UK
TBA
11:25 - 11:45
Dr Yang Cao
Acceleration Consortium
TBA
11:45 - 12:05
Dr Alexander Pomberger
Reactwise, UK
Accelerating process development via transfer-learning Bayesian optimisation
12:05 - 13:30
Lunch & exhibition
Session 2 - Plenary Talk
13:30 - 14:30
Prof. Timothy Noël
University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
RoboChem - The Robots are Coming to the Lab
Session 2 - Flow Chemistry
14:30 - 14:50
Dr Gabriele Laudadio
Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Austria
Merging Automation and Electrochemistry to Accelerate Medicinal Chemistry Applications
14:50 - 15:10
Dr Linden Schrecker
SOLVE Chemistry, UK
Applications of transient flow for accelerating process development: Kinetics, selectivity, solvent replacement and more
15:10 - 15:40
Break & exhibition
Session 3 - AI enabled automated drug discovery
15:40 - 16:00
Dr Matthias Cherubin & Dr Santi Dominguez
Chemspeed and SciY
E2E DMTA - Modular, Scalable, Versatile
16:00 - 16:20
Dr Sarah Trice
XtalPi, Boston, USA
XtalPi's Path to Predictive Chemistry
16:20 - 16:40
Dr Franck le Vaillant
Iktos, Paris, France
TBA
16:40 - 17:00
Dr Niall Anderson
AstraZeneca, UK
NanoSAR platform for accelerating drug discovery
17:00 - 17:20
Dr Richard Law
Exscientia, Oxford, UK
TBA
17:20
End of day one sessions
19:00
Dinner at the Oxford Belfry Hotel
Tuesday 12th November
08:30 - 09:00
Tea & Coffee
Session 4 - Improving Chemical Processes
09:00 - 09:20
Dr Alex Cresswll
University of Bath, UK
New Strategies for Modular and Automatable Synthesis of Saturated N-Heterocycles
09:20 - 09:50
Dr Anthony Cauley
Bristol Myers Squibb, Princeton, USA
TBA
09:50 - 10:10
Dr Peter Meier & Dr Daniel Meyer
Novartis, Basel, Switzerland
Enabling automated multistep solid-phase synthesis with novel polystyrene-coated magnetic particles
10:10 - 10:30
Evelien Renders
J&J, Beerse, Belgium
Automation and New Enabling Methodologies to Accelerate Drug Discovery at J&J
10:30 - 10:50
Break & exhibition
Session 5 - Automated Purification
10:50 - 11:20
Johan Söderlund & Dr Paul Harper
AstraZeneca, Gothenburg, Sweden
Purification workflows - Building fit for purpose automation solutions
11:20 - 11:40
Dr Rodrigo Mancini
Sygnature, Nottingham, UK
Developing chromatography automation ecosystem: Building blocks to achieve end-to-end automated purification
Session 6 - Plenary Talk
11:40 - 12:40
Prof. Matthew Gaunt
University of Cambridge, UK
TBA
12:40 - 13:40
Lunch & exhibition
Session 6 - High Throughput Experimentation
13:40 - 14:00
Dr Philipp Holstein
Bayer, Wuppertal, Germany
Enhanced HTE: Weaving Machine learning
14:00 - 14:20
Dr Toby Waldren-Clark
AstraZeneca, Macclesfield, UK
Automated HTE Synthesis for Data-Rich Experimentation within Process Development
14:20 - 15:00
Dr Raphael Bigler & Dr Joshua Sin
Roche, Basel, Switzerland
Combining HTE and Data Science to Optimise Chemical Processes
15:00 - 15:20
Dr Mimi Hii
Imperial College, London, UK
From ROAR to IConIC: What I learned in the first 5 years
15:20- 15:30
Final Remarks and meeting close
Be part of ASF 2024
The 2024 Automated Synthesis Forum will be a live event, on the 11th & 12th November 2024 at the Oxford Belfry Hotel & Spa.