Chandigarh-based SelectBio is organising its 4th International Conference and Exhibition Drug Discovery India 2016 on September 29-30 at Bengaluru. The theme of the conference is ‘Deriving Best out of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Natural Products’.

The event aims to expand knowledge by providing insights into the latest developments and innovations in the field of drug discovery, medicinal chemistry, natural products and chemical biology. Every year this event bring together about 200 drug discovery scientists together at a platform to discuss and share drug discovery related research and facilitates collaborations amongst scientists from across the globe.
 
According to the organisers, the conference would be useful to drug discovery scientists, medicinal chemists, biotechnologists & researchers from pharmaceutical industry R&D and academic institutions working in the area of new drug discovery research, discovery and development of new chemical entities, biomolecular screening technologies, drug target identification, structure-based and target-based, drug design, protein-protein interactions, drug repurposing, orphan drugs, chemical biology, stem cell, epigenetics as well as natural products.
 
Some of the key topics for presentation include chemical biology approaches in drug discovery, current enabling technologies for accelerated drug discovery, strategies for orphan drugs & drug repurposing, target based approaches in medicinal chemistry and therapies for neglected tropical diseases.

The speakers for the two-day event include Prof. Ajay Rana, Endowed Professor, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA, Prof.  Ashwini Godbole, Senior Assistant Professor, Institute of Transdisciplinary Health Sciences and Technology, Ashwinikumar Raut, Director, Clinical Research Integrative Medicine, Kasturba Health Society Medical Research Centre, Prof. Bhushan Patwardhan, Professor & Director, ISHS, University of Pune, Danijel Kikelj Professor, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, Debendra Mohapatra, Principal Scientist, CSIR- Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Deepak Barot Director, In Vitro ADMET Laboratories, LLC, USA, Nagasuma Chandra Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Science, Tapas Kundu, Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Dr. V Nagaraja, President, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research among others.