The Young Chemist in Industry symposium is an annual, one day meeting, which aims to showcase the chemistry being undertaken in an industrial setting by younger chemists. This symposium represents a unique opportunity for such chemists to present their science to an audience outside their own organisation. It also incorporates a competitive element with prizes for the best presentations. In addition to the participants’ lectures, a lecture from an experienced, high profile industrial figure is included to round off the event.

This year, Laramie Gaster from GlaxoSmithKine will present this lecture. This meeting will be of interest to industrial chemists who will be able to discover what their contemporaries do in other branches of the industry. This may provide an awareness of areas they had not previously considered investigating. The meeting will also be of interest to students who are considering pursuing an industrial career, to give them an insight into potential opportunities. The lectures will encompass a wide range of topics, including medicinal chemistry, process chemistry and new methodologies.

Programme
09:30 Registration and Coffee
10:15 Chairman’s Introduction
10:20 The Synthesis of Substituted 1,2,4-Triazoles
Thomas Bruce Brown, Pfizer
10:45 Crop Protection Chemistry: Design and Synthesis of Novel Phenoxyallyl Compounds with Insecticidal Activity
Suzanna Riley, Syngenta
11:10 Structure-Guided Design of Inhibitors from Fragments for the Kinase PDK1
Stuart Ray, Vernalis
11:35 Coffee
11:50 Understanding the Stability of Compounds in the GSK Screening Collection
Irene Areri, GlaxoSmithKline
12:15 The Electronic Laboratory Notebook at Organon
Richard Bell, Organon
12:40 Synthetic Strategies Targeted Towards Novel Oral C5a Receptor Antagonists
Theresa Humphries, AstraZeneca
13:05 Lunch
14:15 High Throughput Physicochemical Profiling in Early Stage Drug Discovery: Motives, Methods and Challenges
Christine Prosser, UCB
14:40 Less Can be More: Designing Less Potent Inhaled Long Acting Beta-2- Adrenoreceptor Agonists for the Treatment of Asthma and COPD
Andrew Brearley, Novartis
15:05 Rapid Parallel Synthesis Approaches for the Elucidation of Structure- Activity Relationships of GlyT1 Inhibitors
Teresa Man, Eli Lilly
15:30 Stereoselective Formation of Aminotropanes and Subsequent Elaboration Towards N-linked Imidazoles
Sebastien Galan, Pfizer
16:00 Tea
16:25 Guest Lecture Three Decades of Chemistry – The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Laramie Gaster, GlaxoSmithKline
17:25 Presentations sponsored by Sigma-Aldrich
17:45 Wine Mixer sponsored by GlaxoSmithKline, Cellzome (UK) Ltd and Novartis