Perla Breccia
Company: Astex Pharmaceuticals
Job title: Senior Director - Chemistry
Bio:
Medicinal chemist and drug discovery leader with over 20 years experience. Worked in CRO, Pharma & Biotech in various disease areas and more recently focus in the CNS area. Interested in innovation and “undruggable” targets & in the invaluable opportunity l of exploring RNA as a target for small molecules.
Seminars:
Panel Discussion Increasing Chemical Diversity in RNA-Targeted Splice Modulator Small Molecules to Expand the Target Space & Address Previously Undruggable Diseases 1:00 pm
• How can expanding the target space beyond the common splice modulators unlock new opportunities for targeting novel disease areas • What strategies are enabling the design of chemically diverse scaffolds to overcome current limitations in the ligand design space • Are we overdependent on nonsense-mediated decay and can reducing this reliance drive broaden therapeutic…Read more
day: Conference Day One
Chair’s Closing Remarks 4:45 pm
day: Conference Day One
Chair’s Opening Remarks 8:40 am
day: Conference Day Two
Chair’s Closing Remarks 4:15 pm
day: Conference Day Two