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Design of Inhibitors for Proteolytic Cascades

9 September 2003

GlaxoSmithKline, Stevenage, UK



Design of Inhibitors for Proteolytic Cascades

Organizers:
Corinne Kay (Organon, UK)
Mike Bird (GlaxoSmithKline, UK)
Augustin Amour (GlaxoSmithKline, UK)
John Deadman (Thrombosis Research Institute, UK)
David Hayes (Upstate, UK)

Plenary Lecture

Tuesday 9 September 2003
09:00 - 10:00 Registration and coffee

10:00 - 10:30
Inhibition kinetics for proteolytic cascades
Robin Leatherbarrow (Imperial College London, UK)
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch and poster viewing

MMPs

Tuesday 9 September 2003
09:00 - 10:00 Registration and coffee

10:30 - 11:00
Biochemistry of matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs): requirements for collagenolytic activity
Hideaki Nagase (Imperial College London, UK)
11:00 - 11:30
MMP inhibitors :design from structure
Neera Borkakoti (Medivir UK Ltd, Cambridge, UK)
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch and poster viewing

Caspases

Tuesday 9 September 2003
09:00 - 10:00 Registration and coffee

11:30 - 12:00
Caspase activation and the demolition phase of apoptosis
Seamus Martin (The Smurfit Institute, Dublin, Ireland)
12:00 - 12:30
From selective to broad caspase inhibitors
Mike Mortimore (Vertex, UK)
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch and poster viewing

Coagulation Factors

Tuesday 9 September 2003
09:00 - 10:00 Registration and coffee

12:30 - 13:30 Lunch and poster viewing

13:30 - 14:00
Blood coagulation and anticoagulant drug development
John Toomey (GlaxoSmithKline, USA)
14:00 - 14:30
Activation of Antithrombin III by Heparin, the synthetic drug Arixtra® and its congeners
Stan van Boeckel (Organon, The Netherlands)

Complement Factors

Tuesday 9 September 2003
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch and poster viewing

14:30 - 15:00
Proteases of the complement system
Bob Sim (Oxford, UK)
15:00 - 15:30
Rational design of complement inhibitors
John Lambris (Pennsylvania, PA, USA)
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee/tea break

17:00 - 18:00 Poster session with wine and light snacks

Emerging Proteolytic Systems

Tuesday 9 September 2003
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch and poster viewing

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee/tea break

16:00 - 16:30
Proteolytic cascade in amyloidogenesis of Alzheimer's Disease
Brian Austen (St. Georges Hospital Medical School, London, UK)
16:30 - 17:00
Function of rhomboid proteases
Matthew Freeman (Cambridge, UK)
17:00 - 18:00 Poster session with wine and light snacks