The next online Hot Topics meeting is on Thursday 21st November, 2024 (afternoon). The role of laboratory automation in pharmaceutical research and development is continually expanding, increasingly becoming entwined with software and workflow automation. This online, half-day meeting will bring together experts from both academia and industry to discuss recent advances in how we use laboratory automation in pharma and chemical synthesis.
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Fabulous lineup of speakers
| 13:00 (UK time) | Opening Remarks |
| Chair: Helen Aylott, Redx Pharma | |
| 13:05 | Nessa Carson, AstraZeneca Bridging Science and Technology: Navigating the Digital Frontier |
| 13:40 | Blake Baker, Astex Pharmaceuticals Democratising Automation to Enable Synthesis in Fragment Based Drug Discovery (FBDD) |
| 14:15 | Break |
| 14:30 | Andy Cooper, University of Liverpool Mobile robotic chemists for catalysis and exploratory synthesis |
| 15:05 | Julie Fournier, GSK Lab Automation for Nanoscale High-Throughput Chemistry |
| 15:40 | Break |
| Chair: Sam Staniland, AstraZeneca | |
| 15:55 | Ian Fairlamb, University of York The Road to Automation: Accelerating Mechanistic Understanding in Cross-Coupling Reactions |
| 16:30 | Martin Burke, University of Illinois Imagine a world where anyone can make molecules |