Drug Discovery Technologies
12 - 17th August, 2001,
World Trade Center and Seaport Hotel, Boston

Probably the worlds largest Drug Discovery meeting where over 4,000 attendees and 300 exhibition booths are expected.Confirmed Keynote Presenters include Mark J. Levin , Eric S. Lander and George M. Milne, Jr., Ph.D.

The DDT 2001 Scientific Topics will include :

• Target Discovery and Validation
• From Hits to Leads
• Measuring Productivity of New Technologies
• Information and Knowledge Management
• Pharmaceutically Useful Chemistry
• New Protein Therapeutics
• Information and System Architectures
• Lead Identification and Optimization
• Combichem/Medicinal Chemistry Interface
• Early ADME/Toxicology
• Predictive Medicine
• Industrializing Drug Discovery
• In silico Techniques and Simulation Tools
• Automation
• Miniaturization and Biochips
• Assay and Screening Technologies
• Technology Patenting
• Informatics, IT and Computational Approaches
• Data Mining and Knowledge Management
• Structural Genomics
• Interfacing Discovery and Development

Small Talk 2001
27 - 31st August 2001, San Diego, CA, USA

smallTalk2001 is dedicated to microfluidics, microarrays, and bioMEMS technologies and their applications to the problems of chemical and biochemical analysis and characterization. The conference will cover microfabrication, materials science, informatics , genomics, drug discovery, and clinical and environmental analysis. smallTalk2001 will also feature short courses in the design and use of microfabricated devices and systems in scientific research today.