Welcome to BioMedical Transporters 2019

Please note that the following schedule is preliminary and is subject to change.

The conference program is available!
Last update: July 30, 2019.

Keynote lecturer:

1. Discovery of CFTR modulators for the treatment of cystic fibrosis. Speaker: Sabine Hadida, Vice President, Medicinal Chemistry, Vertex Pharmaceuticals San Diego

Sessions:

2. News in transporter drug discovery, ADMET and DDI. Chair: Kathleen M Hillgren
3. New methods to study solute carriers. Chair: Giulio Superti-Furga
4. NCCR TransCure – Chemistry: New chemistry strategies to target transporters and channels. Chair: Jean-Louis Reymond
5. Women in science. Chair: Rajini Rao and Hugues Abriel. Presentations/panel discussion.
6. NCCR TransCure – Structural Biology. Chair: Dimitrios Fotiadis
7. Personalized/precision medicine. Chair: Anne Nies
8. SLCs and rare diseases. Chair: Gaia Novarino
9. NCCR TransCure – Physiology. Chair: Christiane Albrecht
10. Organellar transport processes. Chair: Edmund Kunji
11. Drug transporters as targets of drug development based on their physiological roles. Chair: Ken-ichi Inui
12. Solute carriers in kidney. Chair: Lise Bankir and Bruno Vogt
13. Genetic variations and latest breakthroughs. Chair: Matthias Hediger
14. TRP and Orai calcium channels. Chair: Christine Peinelt and Indu Ambudkar

BMT2019 Organizing Committee:

• Anne Nies (IKP Stuttgart, Germany)
• David Hepworth (Pfizer, Cambridge, USA)
• Ken-ichi Inui (Kyoto Pharmaceutical University, Japan)
• Bruno Stieger (University of Zürich, Switzerland)
• Kevin Rupp (Administrative Organizer, University of Bern, Switzerland)