6th Drug Discovery for Neurodegeneration Conference: An Intensive Course on Translating Research into Drugs

The Drug Discovery for Neurodegeneration Confer-enc advances drug discovery for neurodegenerative diseases by educating scientists on the process of trans-lating basic research into novel therapies.

The course is designed to give participants knowledge and relevant resources about this field of scientific investigation and address the associated barriers and challenges.

The program will focus on Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Multiple Sclerosis.

WHAT ATTENDEES WILL LEARN:

Fundamentals of medicinal chemistry for biologists 

Basics of high-throughput screening and assay devel-opment

Optimizing lead compounds and conducting in vivo efficacy and safety studies

Utilizing animal models in preclinical development

Requirements for an Investigational New Drug (IND) application

Designing drugs for CNS target classes

Working efficiently with technology transfer offices

Intellectual property strategy: commercial potential, protectability and patentability

Best practices and lessons learned

Accessing resources and funding

We created a special discount code for Columbia that will provide a 20% discount on registration. No limits on the number of users. COLUMB12 is the promo code.

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