Proximity-Based Therapeutics: Targeted Protein Degradation and Other Pharmacological Approaches (B2)
February 16-19, 2025  | Eldorado Hotel & Spa, Santa Fe, NM, United States
Philip Chamberlain and Fleur M. Ferguson
Scholarship Deadline: Nov. 21, 2024 | Abstract Deadline: Jan. 24, 2025 | Early Registration Deadline: Dec. 20, 2024
* Session Chair † Invited but not yet accepted | Program current as of August 23, 2025 4 AM | For the most up-to-date details, visit https://www.keystonesymposia.org
Sunday, February 16, 2025
4:00–8:00 PM Registration Concourse
6:00–8:00 PM Welcome Mixer Cava Santa Fe
Monday, February 17, 2025
7:00–8:00 AM Breakfast Anasazi Ballroom
7:30–8:00 AM Poster Setup Anasazi Ballroom
7:45–7:00 PM Poster Viewing Anasazi Ballroom
8:00–9:00 AM Welcome and Keynote Address Eldorado Ballroom
  * Philip Chamberlain, Neomorph, Inc.
Session Chair
 
  Benjamin F. Cravatt III, The Scripps Research Institute
Activity-Based Proteomics – Protein and Ligand Discovery on A Global Scale
 
9:00–11:15 AM Molecular and Structural Biology of Induced Proximity Drugs Eldorado Ballroom
  Brenda A Schulman, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
E3-Ligase Activation, Regulation and Structure
 
  Georg Petzold, Monte Rosa Therapeutics
Mining the CRBN Target Space Redefines Rules for Molecular Glue-induced Neosubstrate Recognition
 
  Hlib Razumkov, Stanford University
Short Talk: Discovery of CRBN-Dependent WEE1 Molecular Glue Degraders From A Multicomponent Combinatorial Library
 
  Björn Schwalb, NEOsphere Biotechnologies GmbH
Short Talk: Unbiased Mapping of Cereblon Neosubstrate Landscape by High-Throughput Proteomics
 
  * Jin Wang, Baylor College of Medicine
Short Talk: Expanding Cereblon Neosubstrates Beyond G-Loops
 
9:30–9:50 AM Coffee Break Concourse
11:15–12:30 PM Lunch Anasazi Ballroom
12:00–2:30 PM Poster Session 1 Anasazi Ballroom
2:30–4:30 PM Symposia Spotlight 1: Late-breaking research presentations selected from abstract submissions Eldorado Ballroom
  Stefan A Harry, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard University
Systematic Targeting of Protein Complexes with Molecular COUPLrs
 
  * Charlene M Magtoto, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
Developing a Pipeline to Validate Potential Therapeutic Targets In Vivo Using Tag Degraders
 
  William Farnaby, University of Dundee
High-Throughput Multi-Step Degrader Synthesis and Screening Via an Orthogonally Reactive Linker Concept
 
  HONG-YU Li, University of Texas Health San Antonio
A Mechanistic Insight into Cellular Permeability of bRo5 Molecules and Its Applications
 
  Kyubin Hwang, Yonsei University College of Medicine
Discovery of a Potent METTL3 PROTAC With Antitumor Effects Against Acute Myeloid Leukemia and Gastric Cancer
 
  Felipe de Sousa e Melo, Amgen
Single Cell Guided Design of Toxicity-Sparing Antibody Antagonists
 
  Jesus A Izaguirre, Atommap Corporation
Harnessing Biomolecular Motion for Reprogramming of Protein Function: Introducing GlueMap for Molecular Glue Discovery
 
4:30–5:00 PM Coffee Available Concourse
5:00–7:00 PM New Induced Proximity Approaches Eldorado Ballroom
  * Sai Gourisankar, Stanford
Session Chair
 
  Gerald R. Crabtree, Stanford University
Rewiring Cancer Drivers to Activate Programmed Cell Death Pathways
 
  Xin Zhou, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Novel Bifunctional Antibodies for Targeted Membrane Protein Degradation
 
  Kevan M. Shokat, University of California, San Francisco
Proximity Approaches to Hijack Immune Signaling and Recognition
 
  Daniel K Nomura, University of California, Berkeley
Covalent Ligands to Drive Proximity
 
7:00–8:00 PM On Own for Dinner
Tuesday, February 18, 2025
7:00–8:00 AM Breakfast Anasazi Ballroom
8:00–11:00 AM Innovation in Induced Proximity Drug Discovery Eldorado Ballroom
  William Forrester, Novartis
The Novartis Targeted Protein Degradation Platform
 
  * Fleur M. Ferguson, University of California, San Diego
Interrogating the Druggable Proteome with Proximity Pharmacology
 
  Philip Chamberlain, Neomorph, Inc.
Expanding the Scope of Glue Degraders
 
  Anil Vasudevan, AbbVie, Inc.
The Hunt for Ligands for Tissue-Restricted Ligases
 
  Christine Jones, Arvinas, Inc.
Short Talk: Development Of Potent, Orally Bioavailable PROTAC LRRK2 Degrader Molecules As Potential Disease Modifying Therapeutics For Neurodegenerative Disorders
 
  Lindsey Lin, UCSF
Short Talk: MultiMap: Multiscale Interaction Profiling for Cell Surface Neighborhoods
 
9:00–9:20 AM Coffee Break Concourse
9:20–9:25 AM Award Recipient Acknowledgement Eldorado Ballroom
11:00–1:00 PM Poster Setup Anasazi Ballroom
11:00–5:00 PM On Own for Lunch
1:00–10:00 PM Poster Viewing Anasazi Ballroom
1:30–3:00 PM Women in TPD&IP Networking Social (Sponsored by Neomorph) - OPEN TO ALL!! Anasazi Ballroom
  * Fleur M. Ferguson, University of California, San Diego
Session Lead
 
  * Danette L Daniels, Foghorn Therapeutics, Inc
Session lead
 
3:00–4:30 PM Career Roundtable Eldorado Ballroom
  Francesca Ester Morreale, Francis Crick Institute
Group Leader
 
  Felipe de Sousa e Melo, Amgen
Director - Research Technology and Emerging Modalities
 
  Georg Petzold, Monte Rosa Therapeutics
Senior Scientist II, Discovery Technologies
 
  Nicola J. Allen, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Associate Professor
 
4:30–5:00 PM Coffee Available Concourse
5:00–7:00 PM Clinical Progress in Proximity Technologies Eldorado Ballroom
  * Michelle R. Arkin, University of California, San Francisco
Session Chair
 
  Danette L Daniels, Foghorn Therapeutics, Inc
Clinical Progress in Degrading Epigenetic Disease Drivers
 
  Vivek K. Arora, Bristol Myers Squibb
Clinical Advances in Cereblon-based Heterobifunctional and Glue Degraders
 
  Juliet Williams, Kymera Therapeutics
Preclinical to Clinical Translation: Building an Immunology Pipeline of Heterobifunctional Degraders
 
  Lynda Groocock, Bristol Myers Squibb
Short Talk: BCL6 Ligand Directed Degrader (LDD) BMS-986458 is a First-In-Class, Highly Selective, Efficacious and Well Tolerated Potential Treatment for B-cell Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma
 
  Lucilia Pereira Mouries, Health & Environmental Sciences Institute (HESI)
Short Talk: Collaborative Approaches to Advance Integrated Safety Assessment of Targeted Protein Degraders
 
7:00–8:00 PM Social Hour with Lite Bites Anasazi Ballroom
7:30–10:00 PM Poster Session 2 Anasazi Ballroom
Wednesday, February 19, 2025
7:00–8:00 AM Breakfast Anasazi Ballroom
8:00–11:00 AM Beyond Degredation: New Applications of Induced Proximity Eldorado Ballroom
  * Lauren V Albrecht, University of California Irvine
Session Chair
 
  Steven Banik, Stanford University
Targeted Protein Relocalization
 
  Amit Choudhary, Harvard Medical School
A Scalable Design for Proximity-Inducing Molecules
 
  Michelle R. Arkin, University of California, San Francisco
Hacking Native Protein-Protein Interaction Networks with Molecular Glues
 
  Francesca Ester Morreale, Francis Crick Institute
Enabling Targeted Protein Degradation in Bacteria
 
  Lawrence Hamann, Interdict Bio, Inc.
Short Talk: Sequence Selective Translation Inhibition as a Novel, Proximity-Based Cancer Therapeutic Modality
 
  William J Gibson, Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Short Talk: p53 Protein Abundance is a Therapeutic Window Across TP53 Mutant Cancers and is Targetable With Proximity Inducing Small Molecules
 
9:00–9:20 AM Coffee Break Concourse
11:00–2:30 PM On Own for Lunch
3:00–4:30 PM Symposia Spotlight 2: Late-breaking research presentations selected from abstract submissions Eldorado Ballroom
  Alexandra Lantermann, Photys Therapeutics
P53-Y220C-BET-Bifunctionals Drive p53-Y220C-Mutant Cancer Cells into Apoptosis
 
  Markella Konstantinidou, University of California, San Francisco
Rational Approaches for The Systematic Identification of Covalent Molecular Glues
 
  Jean-Francois Brazeau, Plexium
Ultra-High-Throughput Miniaturized Cell-Based Assays to Discover CDK2 Molecular Glue Degraders
 
  Dhanusha Nalawansha, Amgen
LYMTACs: Chimeric Small Molecules Repurpose Lysosomal Membrane Proteins for Target Protein Relocalization and Degradation
 
  Hadir Marei, Genentech, Roche
Target Clearance: Targeted Protein Degradation At The Cell Surface
 
  * George M Burslem, University of Pennsylvania
Pooled Endogenous Protein Tagging and Recruitment for Scalable Discovery of Effectors for Induced Proximity Therapeutics
 
4:30–5:00 PM Coffee Available Concourse
5:00–6:45 PM Hijacking New Components of the Degradation Machinery Eldorado Ballroom
  * Danette L Daniels, Foghorn Therapeutics, Inc
Session Chair
 
  Stefan Knapp, SGC Frankfurt
E3-Ligases and updates from the SGC
 
  Natalie Scholes, CeMM
When Inhibitors Act as Degraders: Supercharging Protein Turnover via Endogenous Degradation Routes
 
  Henry M. Colecraft, Columbia University
Hacking the Polyubiquitin Code to Understand and Manipulate Ion Channel Functional Expression
 
  Laurence J Seabrook, University of California, Irvine
Short Talk: Methylarginine Targeting Chimeras for Lysosomal Degradation of Intracellular Proteins
 
6:45–7:00 PM Meeting Wrap-Up: Outcomes and Future Directions (Organizers) Eldorado Ballroom
7:00–8:00 PM Social Hour with Lite Bites Anasazi Ballroom
8:00–9:00 PM Entertainment Eldorado Ballroom
8:00–9:00 PM Cash Bar Anasazi Ballroom
Thursday, February 20, 2025
12:00–11:59 PM Departure