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 April 6, 2026 3 PM | 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
  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
  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 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
2:30–4:30 PM Symposia Spotlight Ballroom 1
  Benoit Lehallier †, Alkahest
Scalable Drug Discovery and Disease Interception by Unlocking Preclinical Molecular Signals from 100 Million Longitudinal Plasma Samples
 
  Bar Makovoz †, Cellular Intelligence
Predictive Modeling of Context-Dependent Cell Signaling Enables Rational 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
 
  Lewis Mervin †, 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
  Amer-Denis Akkad, Absci
Harnessing Generative AI to Creation and Development of ABS-201: A Novel Anti-PRLR Antibody for Androgenic Alopecia
 
  Bingxu Liu, University of Washington
Peptide-MHCI (pMHCI) Binder Design
 
  Sebastian Kelm, UCB Pharma
in silico Antibody Design
 
  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
8:30–11:30 AM AI-based Acceleration of Multi-Omics Advances in Cell Biology Ballroom 1
  Daniel J. Anderson, Eikon Therapeutics
Single Molecule Tracking in Drug Discovery and Systems Biology
 
  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
 
  Alyssa Rosenbloom †, Nomic Bio
Short Talk: Large-Scale Proteomics for AI/ML applications: insights from quantifying 1,000 proteins in 20,000 samples
 
9:30–9:50 AM Coffee Break Ballroom Foyer
9:50–9:55 AM Award Recipient Acknowledgement Ballroom 1
11:30–12:30 PM Lunch Ballroom 2
12:30–2:30 PM Poster Session 2 Ballroom 2
3:30–4:30 PM Career Roundtable Ballroom 1
4:30–5:00 PM Coffee Available Ballroom Foyer
5:00–7:00 PM Advances in Predictive Toxicology Methods Ballroom 1
  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
 
  Steven Jerome †, Schrodinger
Short Talk: Predictive Toxicology: A Physics-Based Cloud Workflow for Mitigating Off-Target Liabilities
 
  Ashkan Golshani †, Carleton University
Short Talk: Off-Target–Aware AI Platform for Peptide Drug Discovery and Its Application to Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia
 
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
8:30–11:30 AM Machine Learning Applications in Translational Science Ballroom 1
  Tali Raveh-Sadka, Immunai
Identification of High Confidence Candidate Markers for Macrophage Infiltrating Tumor Microenvironment Through Single Cell Genomic Atlases
 
  Bissan Al-Lazikani, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
The Kinase Polypharmacology Landscape of Clinical PARP Inhibitors
 
  Gayle Wittenberg, Janssen R&D, LLC
A Multimodal Digital Biomarker of Functional Deficits in Early‐Stage Alzheimer’s Disease
 
  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
11:30–12:30 PM Lunch Ballroom 2
2:30–4:30 PM Panel: Opportunities and Challenges in Computational Drug Discovery and Development? Ballroom 1
  * Karen Akinsanya, Schrödinger
 
  Najat Khan, Recursion Pharmaceuticals
 
  Alexander Hillisch, UCB BioSciences GmbH
 
  Richard Bonneau, Genentech
 
  Sharon Benzeno, Adaptive Biotechnologies
 
4:30–5:00 PM Coffee Available Ballroom Foyer
5:00–6:45 PM AI Application in Global Health Drug Discovery Ballroom 1
  Jonathan E Gable, Novartis Biomedical Research
Diverse Application of AI in Drug Discovery at Novartis
 
  Xiaoying 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
 
6:45–7:00 PM Meeting Wrap-Up: Outcomes and Future Directions (Organizers) Ballroom 1
7:00–8:00 PM On Own for Dinner
Monday, May 11, 2026
12:00–11:59 PM Departure