10:00 - 11:00

Registration

Opening session: Advances in Biomedicine

Chairpeople: David Diaz and Alicia Boto

11:00 - 11:30 Opening ceremony
11:30-12:30 Opening (plenary) lecture:
Dr Serge Mignani, Pharma & Biotech Consultant, retired R&D Director Sanofi-Aventis
France
A critical evaluation of the approaches to targeted protein degradation for drug discovery and development: Protac versus Molecular glue degraders
12:30-13:00 Sponsor projects Presentation Video pills about networks, companies and projects that sponsor the symposium. They will be also programmed along the breaks in the symposium and uploaded into the project web and intranet.
13:00 - 15:00

Welcome cocktail

Second session: Advances in Theranostics

15:00-15:45 Invited lecture:
Prof. João Rodrigues (Univ. Madeira, Portugal)
Carbon-dot-based stimuli-responsive theranostic nanoplatform for anticancer applications
15:45-16:30 Invited lecture:
Dr. Fernando Herranz IQM (Madrid), grupo NanoMedMol
Nano-radiopharmaceuticals for imaging and therapy
16:30-17:15 Invited lecture:
Prof. Mario Diaz & Fernando Lahoz, Universidad de La Laguna (ULL), Tenerife
Fluorescent derivatives of the antitumoral drug tamoxifen: from efficient probes with lasing ability to new drug candidates for phototherapy
17:15-17:30 Sponsor projects and Flash presentations
17:30-18:30

Coffee Break and Exhibition of Pharma/Biotech Companies

First session: Advances in Antimicrobial Research

09:15-10:00 Invited lecture:
Tamás Beke-Somfai, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
Design of antimicrobial peptide supramolecules
10:00-10:45 Invited lecture:
Julia Revuelta Crespo, Instituto de Química Orgánica General-CSIC, Madrid
Tackling the Threat of Bacterial Resistance: Smart Materials to Combat Biofilm-Associated Infections
10:45-11:10 Short Invited Lecture:
Fernando Lobo, IPNA-CSIC, Tenerife
Machine learning-guided strategies for drug discovery: project Labobyte
11:10 - 11:45

Coffee Break

Second Session: New Strategies against MDR pathogens

11:45 - 12:30 Invited lecture:
Miguel Castanho, Universidade de Lisboa
From molecules to mice, from Zika virus to Disease X. Developing a broad spectrum antiviral able to reach the brain and the placenta.
12:30-13:15 Invited lecture:
Daniel López Serrano, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología-CSIC
Membrane microdomain disassembly to resensitize multi-drug resistant pathogens
13:15-13:35 Short Invited lecture:
Prof. José Manuel Pérez de Lastra, IPNA-CSIC, Tenerife
Discovery of cryptic host-defense peptides by genome mining
13:35 - 15:00

Lunch

Third (Short) Session: Advances in Cancer Research

15:00 - 15:45 Invited lecture:
Marco Calvinho Cavaco, Universidade de Lisboa
From small molecules to nanocarriers. Where do we stand in the fight against cancer?
15:40 - 16:20 Invited lecture:
Leandro Fernández Pérez, Univ. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC)
The chemical and preclinical development of triarylpyrazole-based ligands as Estrogen Receptor modulators
16:20 - 17:00 Panel on Cancer Scientific Advances, Coordination and Policy
Moderator: Ian Gauci-Borda, XjenzaMalta
17:00 - 18:30

Coffee Break
Posters and Meeting sessions with Pharma/Biotech companies

19:30 - 22:00

Gala Dinner

First session: Results Transfer in Biomedicine

09:15-10:00 Invited lecture:
Dr. Grant Mc Naughton, CEO CEAMED
Agonists of Caseinolytic protease P (ClpP) as potential anticancer and antibacterial drugs. The highs and lows of drug discovery
10:00-10:30 Invited lecture:
Dr. Luis Matias, CEO Biotech Tricopharming Research
Glandular Trichomes as promising plant-based biofactories for active pharma compounds
10:30-10:50 Short invited lecture:
Prof. José Bismarck Poveda, ULPGC and founder of APB Immunological
Our experience designing vaccines at a technology-based company: APB IMMUNOLOGICAL
10:50-11:00 Flash presentations-companies
11:00 - 11:30

Coffee Break

Second session: Prizes and Awards-Clossing Lecture

11:30-12:00 Short presentations of E-Posters selected for Awards (1-2/SESSION, 5 min each)
12:00-12:20 AWARDS
12:00-12:20 Closing lecture
Katarzyna Walczyk-Matuszyk, National Centre for Research and Development, Poland

Wilder Advance Facility
13:15

Closing ceremony