CFBD is proud to support this year’s FBLD conference in Boston with Centre Director Prof Martin Scanlon and Business Manager Anne Meyer being part of the organising committee.
Experts in the field of fragment-based lead design joined as invited speakers. The event is promising to deliver some exciting presentations. Registrations are encouraged from anyone interested in the fragments community. Follow this link to secure your spot before the deadline on 8 September:
🚨 Seminar alert 🚨 We will be hosting another CFBD seminar on 25 July from 4:00 to 5:00 pm AEST. Tune in to meet Magnus Walter from Monte Rosa Therapeutics.
All are welcome but registrations are essential to join the Zoom session: https://monash.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_pAujwua8Qea0DBtH6wbGdQ
This year marks the official planned end date of the ARC Industrial Transformation Training Centre for Fragment-Based Design. We are looking back at five successful years of partnership with our researchers, collaborators and industry partners.
It has been quite an unusual 5 years with the pandemic interrupting our operations. Nevertheless, we managed to work on exciting projects.
It’s time to celebrate our achievements at the Final CFBD Forum. The Final Forum will be held together with the 5th Fragment-Based Drug Discovery Down Under Conference in sunny Brisbane. We are inviting all CFBD members to join us on 24 June at the UQ City Campus.
We are looking forward to welcoming everyone to Brisbane soon!
CFBD joins forces with its Australian Research Council Industrial Industrial Transformation Research Initiatives to host the 2024 International Women’s Day Panel Discussion on the theme of Inspire Inclusion in Academic Research. Join us from 12pm on Tuesday 5 March at RMIT University‘s City Campus.
Follow this link for more details and register here.
Partners include ARC Training Centre For Biofilm Research and Innovation, ARC Training Centre for Medical Implant Technologies, ARC Centre in Surface Engineering for Advanced Materials, ARC Centre for Personalised Therapeutics Technology, ARC Training Centre for the Transformation of Australia’s Biosolids Resource and ARC Training Centre for Transformation of Resources into Engineered Materials.
The Parkville Postgraduate Association (PPA) at Monash University held its 18th Annual Graduate Research Symposium yesterday. The main focus of the Symposium is to give graduate research students a platform to showcase their current research whilst improving their public speaking and presentation skills in the form of oral and poster presentations. The annual event provides an excellent opportunity to learn more about the diverse research carried out at the Monash Parkville Campus.
This year, CFBD members were particularly successful at the event: PhD Candidate Jeyan Osman won the People’s Choice Oral Presentation Award worth $150, PhD Candidate Jason Pun received the Oral Presentation Encouragement Award ($100) and PhD Candidate Imesha Hettige Most Outstanding Poster Presentation Award worth $300. Congratulations to all winners at the event!
The Centre had the pleasure of supporting the inaugural Hit ID Symposium 2023 on 27 October. The sold-out event took place at the Woodward Conference Centre in Melbourne and consisted of scientific sessions, interactive events and networking opportunities focussed on introducing delegates to the topic of hit identification within a small molecule drug discovery setting.
It was the first small molecule drug discovery symposium showcasing the hit identification infrastructure and success stories to come out of Melbourne’s Parkville precinct. The event provided a unique opportunity to support a wide-reaching symposium that focused on hit-finding screening campaigns in drug discovery, delivered by experts actively working in the field from both within academia and industry.
The symposium introduced researchers and clinicians to the topic of small molecule drug discovery and the support that is available to engage in such a program, starting with the identification of a hit. Attendees were guided through how to do drug discovery, how to fund it and how to protect it.
The event was supported by:
Congratulations to our Partner Investigator Professor Susie Nilsson from CSIRO for receiving the 2023 Inspiring Leadership Award from the BioMelbourne Network
Launched in 2015, BioMelbourne Network’s Women in Leadership Awards recognise and champion women who are making outstanding contributions to the health-tech industry. The 2023 Awards Ceremony honoured three remarkable leaders, at different stages of their careers, who have taken strategic risks, tenaciously pursued goals and served as role models to the younger generation.
Susie Nilsson received the award in the category “Inspiring Leadership Award – Making it Happen”. This award recognises women playing an inspiring and pivotal role in the leadership of a project, partnership or collaborative initiative, approximately within the last 5-10 years.
We are proud to sponsor the 2022 ANZMAG Conference this year. The event will take place in Marysville, VIC from 4 to 8 December. CFBD is sponsoring one of the keynote speakers A/Prof Haribabu Arthanari from Harvard Medical School. Register to hear fascinating talks about all things #magneticresonance
Please visit https://www.anzmagconference.org.au/ for more information and registration details.
The 2022 FBDD DU Conference proved to be a huge success for CFBD members. We heard fantastic presentations from the plenary speakers and fascinating stories from the presenters with a good number of Centre members represented. We saw brilliant posters and made new connections during the networking sessions. Adding to this, our members hit the jackpot with the FBDD DU presentation prizes. Congratulations to:
Another round of the CFBD Seminar Series is coming on 29 August 2022: Prof Marko Hyvönen will talk about the development of inhibitors for BRCA2:RAD51 interaction.
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