Computational Advances in Drug Discovery (G1)
May 7-10, 2026  | Park Plaza Riverbank London, London, United Kingdom
Karen Akinsanya, Alexander Hillisch, Najat Khan and Gang Liu
Scholarship Deadline: Feb. 11, 2026 | Abstract Deadline: Apr. 16, 2026 | Early Registration Deadline: Mar. 11, 2026
* Session Chair † Invited but not yet accepted | Program current as of May 17, 2026 12 AM | For the most up-to-date details, visit https://www.keystonesymposia.org
Thursday, May 7, 2026
4:00–8:00 PM Registration Ballroom Foyer
6:00–8:00 PM Welcome Mixer Ballroom Foyer
Friday, May 8, 2026
7:30–8:30 AM Breakfast Individual Hotel
8:00–8:30 AM Poster Setup Ballroom 2
8:00–8:30 AM Coffee Available Ballroom Foyer
8:15–5:00 PM Poster Viewing Ballroom 2
8:30–8:40 AM Welcome Remarks Ballroom 1
8:40–9:30 AM Keynote Address Ballroom 1
  * Alexander Hillisch, UCB BioSciences GmbH
Session Chair
 
  Simon Richards, Isomorphic Labs
Development and Application of an AI-First Drug Design Platform at Isomorphic Labs
 
9:30–11:45 AM Computation Methods in Structure-Based Small Molecule Design Ballroom 1
  * Karen Akinsanya, Schrödinger
Session Chair
 
  Christina Schindler, Merck KGaA
Computational Drug Design across Different Modalities
 
  Richard Bonneau, Genentech
Avoiding Funnels: Using Active Learning and Generative AI to Drive Drug Discovery
 
  Heidi Koldsoe, Antares Therapeutics
Drugging the Undruggable: Leveraging Computational Techniques to Drive Compound Design
 
  Peter V Coveney, University College London
Short Talk: Discovery of a Nanomolar Active Molecule Using an Integrated Workflow Comprising AI, Physics and Experiment
 
10:00–10:20 AM Coffee Break Ballroom Foyer
11:45–12:45 PM Lunch Ballroom 2
12:30–2:30 PM Poster Session 1 Ballroom 2
3:00–4:30 PM Symposia Spotlight Ballroom 1
  * Bissan Al-Lazikani, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Session Chair
 
  Benoit Lehallier, Alkahest
Scalable Drug Discovery and Disease Interception by Unlocking Preclinical Molecular Signals from 100 Million Longitudinal Plasma Samples
 
  Samantha Dale Strasser, Cellular Intelligence
Multiplexing Platform for Predictive Modeling of Context-dependent Cell Signaling to Enable Pluripotent Stem Cell-based Disease Models
 
  Artem Ashurov, University Hospital of Cologne
Structure-guided Targeting of CMV for Synergistic Neutralization
 
  Adam Pecina, IOCB Prague
Fast and Reliable Quantum Mechanical Scoring for Protein-Ligand Affinity Prediction in Structure-Based Drug Design
 
  Calum Hand, Apheris
Federated Training of Multi-Task ADMET Models Across Distributed Pharmaceutical Data
 
  Chinmaya Joisa, UNC Chapel Hill
Integrating Drug-Target Profiling and Network Diffusion for Generalizable Prediction of Kinase Inhibitor Response in Patient-Derived Xenografts
 
4:30–5:00 PM Coffee Available Ballroom Foyer
5:00–7:00 PM Computational Methods in Protein Therapeutic Design Ballroom 1
  * Richard Bonneau, Genentech
Session Chair
 
  Bingxu Liu, University of Washington
Remote Presentation: Peptide-MHCI (pMHCI) Binder Design
 
  Sebastian Kelm, UCB Pharma
in silico Antibody Design
 
  Amer-Denis Akkad, Absci
Harnessing Generative AI to Creation and Development of ABS-201: A Novel Anti-PRLR Antibody for Androgenic Alopecia
 
  Giuseppe Maccari, Fondazione Biotecnopolo di Siena
Short Talk: Generative Control of Antibody Dynamics: Fine-Tuning ProteinMPNN for Flexibility-Guided In Silico Maturation
 
  Christina Christodoulou, University College London
Short Talk: Does Disorder Drive Barrier Crossing? Predicting Peptide Penetration from Disorder Features
 
7:00–8:00 PM On Own for Dinner
Saturday, May 9, 2026
7:30–8:30 AM Breakfast Individual Hotel
8:00–8:30 AM Poster Setup Ballroom 2
8:00–8:30 AM Coffee Available Ballroom Foyer
8:15–5:00 PM Poster Viewing Ballroom 2
8:30–11:00 AM AI-based Acceleration of Multi-Omics Advances in Cell Biology Ballroom 1
  * Christina Schindler, Merck KGaA
Session Chair
 
  Daniel J. Anderson, Integrated Biosciences
Fully AI-native Small Molecule Drug Discovery Based on Complex Cellular Phenotypic Models
 
  Alexander Hillisch, UCB BioSciences GmbH
Holistic De Novo Drug Design at UCB
 
  Ben Lehner, Wellcome Sanger Institute
Complete Allosteric Maps for Drug Discovery
 
  Parashar Dhapola, Nygen Analytics AB
Short Talk: Multi-Agent AI Enables Evidence-Based Cell Type Annotation for Drug Discovery
 
  Eric Miller, Nomic Bio
Short Talk: Large-Scale Proteomics for AI/ML Applications: Insights from Quantifying 1,000 Proteins in 20,000 Samples
 
9:30–9:35 AM Award Recipient Acknowledgement Ballroom 1
9:35–9:50 AM Coffee Break Ballroom Foyer
11:00–12:00 PM Lunch Ballroom 2
12:30–2:30 PM Poster Session 2 Ballroom 2
3:30–4:30 PM Career Roundtable Ballroom 1
  Sandeep Pal, Cheminfosolutions Ltd
Director
 
  Engi Hassaan, Springer Nature
Senior Editor
 
  Nikolina Nakic, Novo Nordisk
Head of Digital Biology
 
4:30–5:00 PM Coffee Available Ballroom Foyer
5:00–7:00 PM Advances in Predictive Toxicology Methods Ballroom 1
  * Heidi Koldsoe, Antares Therapeutics
Session Chair
 
  Blanca Rodriguez, University of Oxford
Digital Twins and In Silico Clinical Trials for Drug Discovery
 
  Friedemann Schmidt, Sanofi
Decoding Toxicology: Computational Frameworks for Next-Generation Predictive Safety
 
  Henrik Renner, Evotec SE
Human iPSC High-throughput Screening for Teratogenicity Hazard Identification
 
  Magd Badaoui, Schrodinger GmbH
Short Talk: Predictive Toxicology: A Physics-Based Cloud Workflow for Mitigating Off-Target Liabilities
 
7:00–8:00 PM On Own for Dinner
Sunday, May 10, 2026
7:30–8:30 AM Breakfast Individual Hotel
8:00–8:30 AM Coffee Available Ballroom Foyer
8:30–11:00 AM Machine Learning Applications in Translational Science Ballroom 1
  * Friedemann Schmidt, Sanofi
Session Chair
 
  Tali Raveh-Sadka, Immunai
Navigating Drug Development with Immune Intelligence
 
  Bissan Al-Lazikani, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Making Drug Discovery for Rare Cancers
 
  Gayle Wittenberg, Janssen R&D, LLC
Measuring the Mind: Enabling the Next Era of Brain Drug Development
 
  Kgabe Ronald Molepo, University of Cape Town
Short Talk: Interpretable Graph Neural Networks for Learning Drug–Gene Relationships and Inferring Phenotype Outcomes in Pharmacogenomics
 
  Artem Sokolov, Etiome
Short Talk: Temporal Biodynamics: An AI Platform for Stage-Relevant Target Identification in Chronic Disease Progression
 
9:30–9:50 AM Coffee Break Ballroom Foyer
11:00–12:00 PM Lunch Ballroom 2
2:30–3:30 PM Panel: Opportunities and Challenges in Computational Drug Discovery and Development? Ballroom 1
  * Karen Akinsanya, Schrödinger
 
  Alexander Hillisch, UCB BioSciences GmbH
 
  Sharon Benzeno, Adaptive Biotechnologies
 
  Bissan Al-Lazikani, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
 
  Jonathan E Gable, Novartis Biomedical Research
 
3:30–4:00 PM Coffee Available Ballroom Foyer
4:00–5:30 PM AI Application in Global Health Drug Discovery Ballroom 1
  * Gang Liu, Gates Foundation
Session Chair
 
  Jonathan E Gable, Novartis Biomedical Research
Computational Drug Discovery at Novartis Global Health
 
  Xiaoying (Lyu) Lv, Global Health Drug Discovery Institute
Generative AI-Enabled Hit identification & Lead Optimization in Early Drug Discovery
 
  Fehintoluwa J Femi-Olabisi, Mountain Top University
Short Talk: Molecular Insights into the Anti-diabetic Activity of Ethanol Fractions of Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Husk on Gestational Diabetes: An in silico Study
 
  Deeksha Tripathi, Central University of Rajasthan
Short Talk: Disrupting the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Protein Tyrosine Kinase A and Protein tyrosine Phosphatase B Virulence Network: Integrated Computational and Experimental Identification of Novel Pyridine and Diazepane Derivatives as Potent Inhibitors
 
5:30–5:45 PM Meeting Wrap-Up: Outcomes and Future Directions (Organizers) Ballroom 1
5:45–8:00 PM On Own for Dinner
Monday, May 11, 2026
12:00–11:59 PM Departure