REPORT ON DDTWC & GBC

2015 REPORT


INTRODUCTION

The third conferences of the series Drug Discovery & Therapy World Congress 2015 (DDTWC 2015) and the Global Biotechnology Congress 2015 (GBC 2015),were organized by Eureka Conferences, Inc., and again held in Boston, at the John B. Hynes Memorial Convention Center, from 22nd – 25thJuly, 2015. These parallel held international symposia gathered more than 600 pharmaceutical scientists, doctors, clinical researchers and biotechnologists to elucidate on the latest discoveries and researches in their respective fields.

This year the events proved much larger with over 330 talks delivered in various sessions of drug discovery and biotechnology.

TRACKS OF THE CONFERENCE (DDTWC 2015)

  1. Academic CRO/Industrial collaborations in drug discovery
  2. Anti-Infectives
  3. Bioactive Lipids
  4. Biologics
  5. Cancer Targeted Drug Delivery
  6. Cardiovascular Drug Discovery & Therapy
  7. Chemistry
  8. Combinatorial Chemistry
  9. CNS Drug Discovery & Therapy
  10. Diabetes and Obesity Drug Discovery & Therapy
  11. Drug Delivery & Targeting
  12. Drug Discovery in Preclinical Research
  13. Drug Metabolism
  14. Enabling Technologies
  15. Genomics
  16. Green Techniques for Medicinal Chemistry
  17. High-throughput Screening & Laboratory automation
  18. Hot Topics in Drug Targets
  19. Hot Topics in HIV Research
  20. Hot Topics in Medicinal Chemistry
  21. Hot Topics in Natural Products
  22. Inflammation and Immunology
  23. Innovative Drug Discovery and Nanotechnology
  24. In-silico Drug Design and in-silico screening
  25. Medical Imaging
  26. Nutraceutical Drug Discovery & Therapy
  27. Pharmaceutical Biotechnology
  28. Pharmaceutical Research & Development
  29. Pharmacogenomics
  30. Process Chemistry and Drug Manufacturing
  31. Protein and Peptide Sciences
  32. Proteomics & Bioinformatics
  33. Pulmonary Drug Discovery & Therapy
  34. Recent Advances in Patient Treatment and Care
  35. Recent Advances in Spectroscopy
  36. Regenerative Medicine
  37. Stereoselective Synthesis of Bioactive Compounds
  38. Structural Biology
  39. Traditional Chinese Medicine
  40. Translational Medicine
  41. Women’s Health Drug Discovery & Therapy
TRACKS OF CONFERENCE (GBC 2015)
  1. Pharmaceutical Biotechnology
  2. Plant and Environment.
  3. Industrial and Manufacturing
  4. Medical Biotechnology
  5. Business Development
  6. Regenerative Medicine
  7. Marine Biotechnology
INAUGURAL SESSION

The inaugural ceremony marked the commencement of these august events on 22nd July 2015, seeking to provide eminent scientists the opportunity to present their cutting edge researches in the field of drug development and discovery and the applications in medicine and biotechnology.

Prof. Dr. Atta-ur-Rahman, the Co-President of DDTWC 2015 and GBC 2015 extended a very warm welcome to the honorable Nobel Laureates, leading scientists and young researchers participating in these two symposia which are organized each year to offer an in-depth assessment of the challenges involved in the dynamic and fast moving field of drug discovery and development as well as biotechnology.

GEOGRAPHICAL STATISTICS:

DDTWC 2014 and GBC 2014 welcomed leading chemists, pharmacologists, biotechnologists and other associated professionals to discuss and present the latest important developments in their respective fields from various regions of the world.

In comparison to last year, there was a significant increase in the number of participants from North America, being 33% as against 11% in 2014, which is a proof enough of the recognition of these successful events amongst the developed countries.

LECTURE SESSIONS:

The two simultaneously held symposia, DDTWC 2015 and GBC 2015, offered successive Plenary lectures, Keynote lectures, Invited and Session lectures in various fields, disseminating the advancements and researches in diverse fields of medicine and biotechnology to over 650 participants. A total of 10 plenary lectures were delivered by Dr. Pamela Silver, Dr. Phillip sharp (Nobel Laureate), Prof. FeridMurad (Nobel Laureate), Dr. Martin Nowak, Dr. Bernard Palsson, Dr. Charles Serhan, Dr. ShujiOgino, Dr. Ada Yonath (Nobel Laureate), Dr. Edmond Yunis and Dr. Richard Atkinson.

Each day the lecture sessions commenced with the Plenary lectures delivered by renowned scientists and biotechnologists, followed by Keynote, Invited and Session lectures held in 7, 6, 5 and 4 parallel sessions on Days 1, 2, 3 and 4, respectively.

EXHIBITION

The exhibition of DDTWC 2015 and GBC 2015 was another appealing aspect which proceeded in full swing on all four days of the conferences. The major exhibitors were the following:

SPONSORS AND MEDIA PARTNERS:

The sponsors and media partners of DDTWC and GBC 2014 were the following:

POSTER PRESENTATION- CASH PRIZE DISTRIBUTION CEREMONY

Another center of attraction of the events was the Poster presentation session which was held on the 24th and 25th of July 2015, proffering an opportunity to mostly young scientists to present theirresearch endeavors through the conventional printed posters besides the E-posters. Those prospective who could physically ensure their presence in the conference were offered the option to deliver E-posters, which were facilitated through online interactive session between the poster presenter and the attendees. The poster presenters put forward an array of over 150 proficiently prepared posters which were very well received and garnered a lot of attention and discussion by the participants of the events.

The Organizers acknowledged the efforts of the poster presenters by rewarding one best poster for each conference with a monetary prize.

DDTWC 2015 and GBC 2015- Another Successful Year

Eureka Conferences, Inc.,continued with their trend to hold the relatively new series of conferences of Drug Discovery and Therapy World Congress 2015 and Global Biotechnology Congress 2015 the third successive year, which proved appreciably successful. DDTWC 2015 and GBC 2015 were held at the John B. Hynes Memorial Convention Center, Boston, MA, USA from 22nd – 25th July, 2015. These conferences presented thoroughly enlightening plenary, keynote, invited and session lectures delivered over 41 thematic sessions in the drug discovery fields and 8 thematic sessions on the biotechnology front along with poster presentations and an associated commercial exhibition.

An array of distinguished scientists and researchers from all over the world enthusiastically participated in these symposia to present their share of researches to the delegates craving for information on breakthroughs in diverse fields of science and technology.

The conferences drew a curtain on the 25th of July 2015 to be raised again next year in August 2016.

2014 REPORT


INTRODUCTION

Eureka Conferences, Inc. recently organised the Drug Discovery & Therapy World Congress 2014 (DDTWC 2014) and the Global Biotechnology Congress 2014 (GBC 2014), in Boston, at the John B. Hynes Memorial Convention Center, from 16th – 19th June, 2014. These international conferences provided a platform for an in-depth assessment of the challenges involved in the dynamic field of drug discovery and development as well as biotechnology.

TRACKS OF DRUG DISCOVERY & THERAPY WORLD CONGRESS 2014

  1. Academic CRO/Industrial collaborations in drug discovery
  2. Anti-Cancer Drug Discovery & Therapy
  3. Anti-Infectives
  4. Bioactive Lipids
  5. Biologics
  6. Chemistry
  7. Cardiovascular Drug Discovery & Therapy
  8. Combinatorial Chemistry
  9. CNS Drug Discovery & Therapy
  10. Diabetes and Obesity Drug Discovery & Therapy
  11. Drug Delivery & Targeting
  12. Drug Discovery in Preclinical Research
  13. Drug Metabolism
  14. Enabling Technologies
  15. Genomics
  16. High-throughput Screening & Laboratory automation
  17. Hot Topics in Drug Targets
  18. Hot Topics in HIV Research
  19. Hot Topics in Medicinal Chemistry
  20. Hot Topics in Natural Products
  21. Inflammation and Immunology
  22. Innovative Drug Discovery and Nanotechnology
  23. In-silico Drug Design and in-silico screening
  24. Medical Imaging
  25. Nutraceutical Drug Discovery & Therapy
  26. Pharmaceutical Biotechnology
  27. Pharmaceutical Research & Development
  28. Pharmacogenomics
  29. Process Chemistry and Drug Manufacturing
  30. Protein and Peptide Sciences
  31. Proteomics & Bioinformatics
  32. Pulmonary Drug Discovery & Therapy
  33. Recent Advances in Patient Treatment and Care
  34. Recent Advances in Spectroscopy
  35. Regenerative Medicine
  36. Stereoselective Synthesis of Bioactive Compounds
  37. Structural Biology
  38. Translational Medicine
  39. Traditional Chinese Medicines
  40. Women’s Health Drug Discovery & Therapy
  41. Green Techniques in Medicinal Chemistry
TRACKS OF GLOBAL BIOTECHNOLOGY CONGRESS 2014 (GBC 2014)
  1. Pharmaceutical Biotechnology
  2. Plant and Environment
  3. Industrial and Manufacturing
  4. Medical Biotechnology
  5. Business Development
  6. Regenerative Medicine
  7. Marine Biotechnology
  8. Other areas: Food; Marine; Bio-safety; Systems Biology, Clinical Research/clinical trials; Bioethics; Nanobiotechnology
INAUGURAL SESSION

The opening session of DDTWC 2014 and GBC 2014 was jointly held on 16th June 2014 and marked the inauguration of these symposia of multidimensional importance, seeking to highlight the importance and significance of the latest research advances in the field of drug discovery, disease management and diagnosis as well as the translational nature of biotechnological research.

In the augural address, Prof. Dr. Atta-ur-Rahman extended a very warm welcome to the honorable Nobel Laureates, leading scientists and young researchers participating in these two symposia.


 

 

 

 

 
PARTICIPATION BY GEOGRAPHICAL AREA:

DDTWC 2014 and GBC 2014 brought together leading chemists, pharmacologists, biotechnologists and other allied professionals to discuss and present the latest important developments in the fields from various regions of the world.

LECTURE SESSIONS:

The two conferences presented a series of Plenary, Keynote, Invited and Session lectures in various fields, catering to a gathering of over 500 participants. A total of 12 plenary lectures were delivered by Dr. Allan L. Goldstein, Dr.Antonio M. Gotto, Jr., Dr. Debomoy K. Lahiri, Dr. Richard Lee Atkinson, Hiroshi Maeda, Dr. William B. Weglicki, Dr. Shuji Ogino, Edmond J. Yunis, Dr. Lee M. Kaplan, Dr. Vladimir Torchilin, Dr. Mary-Elizabeth Patti and Dr. Muhammad Iqbal Choudhary.

Each day the lecture sessions commenced with the Plenary lectures given by renowned scientists and biotechnologists, and were later taken over by a large number of eminent researchers who presented their talks as Invited and Session lectures.


 

 

 
EXHIBITION

 

 

 

The exhibition of DDTWC and GBC 2014 was another appealing aspect which proceeded in full swing on all four days of the conferences. The major exhibitors were the following:

SPONSORS AND MEDIA PARTNERS:

The sponsors and media partners of DDTWC and GBC 2014 were the following:

POSTER PRESENTATION- CASH PRIZE DISTRIBUTION CEREMONY

To present more information on the breakthrough developments in the two respective areas, two hours were allotted on the 18th and 19th of June 2014 for the Poster Session. The poster presenters put forward an array of over 150 proficiently prepared posters which were very well received and garnered a lot of attention and discussion by the participants of the events.


 

 

 

The Organizers acknowledged the efforts of the poster presenters by rewarding one best poster for each conference with a monetary prize.

DDTWC and GBC 2014- A STEP AHEAD

Drug Discovery and Therapy World Congress 2014 and Global Biotechnology Congress 2014 were held at the John B. Hynes Memorial Convention Center, Boston, MA, USA from 16th – 19th June, 2014. These conferences presented plenary, keynote, invited and session lectures delivered over 41 thematic sessions in the drug discovery fields and 8 thematic sessions in the biotechnology front along with poster presentations and an associated commercial exhibition.

The conferences provided the renowned scientists an excellent opportunity to present their cutting edge researches in their respective fields from this platform.

COMMENTS FROM PREVIOUS CONFERENCES BY EUREKA:

Ferid Murad (Nobel Laureate)
George Washington University, Washington D.C, USA

  • The 6th ICDDT & 3rd BWC meetings went very well, The science was very good, the attendees enjoyed the lectures and meetings, the venue was excellent as with previous meetings and the staff were always helpful. The attendance was about what it has been in previous meetings. The Intercontinental Hotel was excellent as was the service. I heard no complaints from any of the attendees.

Jean-Marie LEHN (Nobel Laureate)
ISIS - Universite de Strasbourg, Alsace, France

  • Excellent interaction with the organizers and supporting team.

Gannu Praveen Kumar
St. Peter’s Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Andhra Pradesh, India

  • It was really a splendid experience in the 6th ICDDT. I was very much fascinated about the arrangements made with ease. I had learnt lots of things from your style of working. If possible, I will be happy to attend 7th ICDDT in 2016 as an invited speaker with the sponsor. If anything is expected to be done by me, please let me know as a part of the conference. I will be happy to be a part of the team for involvement.

Maha Hammad
The University of Western Ontario, Ontario, Canada

  • It was my pleasure to be part of the conference this year and I really appreciate the prize. The overall organization was excellent. I really liked how diverse the sessions were and the efforts to cover as many scientific topics as possible were very clear. I really liked the venue, having the coffee breaks outdoors in such a nice campus and beautiful weather was very refreshing. The organizers were on top of everything and they were always available to answer questions and solve problems. Overall, job well done.

Rakesh Kumar
George Washington University, Washington DC, USA

  • Thank you for putting together another outstanding scientific meeting and exposing the participants to the leading experts in the areas of Drug Discovery and Therapy and Biotechnology. Most importantly, I was very impressed by the physical presence and an active participation of all Nobel Laureates and eminent scientists throughout the meeting and their interactions with the conference participants at-large. Overall, I enjoyed interacting with my younger colleagues from UAE and other parts of the world. I also noticed a highest level of professionalism on the part of the organizing committee as all logistic steps were executed flawlessly. Thank you for putting such an important Science Gathering in UAE.

Faikah Gueler
Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

  • I enjoyed the conference. The quality of the academic sessions I attended was very mixed in terms data presentation and scientific results. The majority were excellent, but some were rather poor in terms of presentation (written slides full of text similar to a newspaper article on every slide.

Beka Solomon
University of Tel Aviv, Ramat Aviv, Israel

  • Many thanks for giving me the opportunity to attend the 6th ICDDT in Dubai. The scientific program was excellent, very diverse and well balanced bringing many novelties to the participants. The venue was equipped with all the international standards and very comfortable. On the social and personal sides, the atmosphere was very friendly and the handling efficient.
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    I wish to congratulate and thank the organizing team for their efforts and achievements.

Fazlul Huq
The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

  • The conference was good as it brought together researchers on drug discovery and therapy from all over the world. The social events were also good,
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    On a different matter, I would prefer the dinner on the boat than the one in the desert.

Debomoy K. Lahiri
Institute of Psychiatric Research, USA

  • I congratulate you for successfully organizing the just concluded and most exciting conference "3rd International Conference on Drug Discovery and Therapy". I deeply appreciate your hospitality as well all other hard working staff for making this meeting so successful, informative and memorable.

Prof. Antonio Gotto, Jr.
Lewis Thomas University, USA

  • I found the Drug Discovery and Therapy World Congress 2013 to be an exceptionally well organized and scientifically stimulating conference. The lectures were very engaging, conducted at a high level, and exposed me to a wide variety of relevant topics in drug discovery and pharmacotherapy.

Dr. Rathnam Chaguturu
University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA

  • A fantastic conference of the highest caliber with ample opportunity to network with world-renowned scientists. A virtual 'high-five' to the conference organizers for their outstanding achievement in making this conference a grand success. I am already looking forward to next year's conference.

2013 REPORT


INTRODUCTION

Eureka Conferences, Inc. proudly announced the Drug Discovery & Therapy World Congress 2013 (DDTWC 2013) as well as World Biotechnology Congress (WBC 2013), which were held at the John B. Hynes Memorial convention Center, Boston, MA, USA from January 3rd – 6th June, 2013. To keep the trend of spreading the scientific researches and biotechnological advancements alive, throughout the world, Eureka Conferences, Inc., in the USA, sought to offer an in-depth assessment of the challenges involved in the dynamic and fast moving field of drug discovery and development as well as biotechnology, and bring together leading chemists, pharmacologists, biotechnologists, and other allied professionals to discuss and present the latest important developments in the fields.

DDTWC 2013 was unique in disseminating translational characteristics of recent biomedical and pharmaceutical research, with both scientists and clinicians associated with either patient care or with drug discovery research. This symposium provided a forum to highlight the developments in human molecular medicine with the explicit provisions for the drug discovery process. The congress was based on the following tracks.

  1. Academic CRO/Industrial collaborations in drug discovery
  2. Anti-Cancer Drug Discovery & Therapy
  3. Anti-Infectives
  4. Bioactive Lipids
  5. Biologics
  6. Cardiovascular Drug Discovery & Therapy
  7. Chemistry
  8. Combinatorial Chemistry
  9. CNS Drug Discovery & Therapy
  10. Diabetes and Obesity Drug Discovery & Therapy
  11. Drug Delivery & Targeting
  12. Drug Discovery in Preclinical Research
  13. Drug Metabolism
  14. Enabling Technologies
  15. Genomics
  16. Green Techniques for Medicinal Chemistry
  17. High-throughput Screening & Laboratory automation
  18. Hot Topics in Drug Targets
  19. Hot Topics in HIV Research
  20. Hot Topics in Medicinal Chemistry
  21. Hot Topics in Natural Products
  22. Inflammation and Immunology
  23. Innovative Drug Discovery and Nanotechnology
  24. In-silico Drug Design and in-silico screening
  25. Medical Imaging
  26. Nutraceutical Drug Discovery & Therapy
  27. Pharmaceutical Biotechnology
  28. Pharmaceutical Research & Development
  29. Pharmacogenomics
  30. Process Chemistry and Drug Manufacturing
  31. Protein and Peptide Sciences
  32. Proteomics & Bioinformatics
  33. Pulmonary Drug Discovery & Therapy
  34. Recent Advances in Patient Treatment and Care
  35. Recent Advances in Spectroscopy
  36. Regenerative Medicine
  37. Stereoselective Synthesis of Bioactive Compounds
  38. Structural Biology
  39. Translational Medicine
  40. Women’s Health Drug Discovery & Therapy

On the other hand, WBC 2013 was exceptional in endorsing the breakthroughs in the Biotechnology field and drew together both novice and veterans from the biotechnological front from all over the world to present the innovations and advancements in the biotechnology sphere both at regional and global level. The congress reviewed the best current research and non-commercial aspects of the field. The major areas of biotechnology were classed on the basis given below.

  1. Pharmaceutical Biotechnology: biopharmaceuticals discovery (CNS, cancer, cardiovascular, endocrine, immune); vaccines; antibodies; protein engineering.
  2. Plant and Environment: transgenic plants and crops; bioremediation; microbial diversity; bio-monitoring; photosynthetic microorganisms, cyanobacteria and microalgae.
  3. Industrial and Manufacturing: bio-fuels; energy crops (cellulosic ethanol industry); industrial enzymes; bioprocess engineering and optimization.
  4. Medical Biotechnology: biopharmaceutical manufacturing; diagnostics; imaging; pharmacogenomics (personalized medicine); microarray technology; biomarkers.
  5. Business Development: strategic alliances; partnering trends; product opportunities; growth; business models and strategies; licensing; merger and acquisitions; outsourcing; venture capital and financing; intellectual property.
  6. Regenerative Medicine: stem cells, gene therapy; tissue engineering; cell based therapy; cell cultivation.
  7. Other areas: Food; Marine; Bio-safety; Systems Biology, Clinical Research/clinical trials; bioethics; nanobiotechnology.
  8. Marine Biotechnology: Environment Applications of Marine Biotechnology; Marine Natural Products; Bioproducts and Bioactive Compounds; Marine Microbiology and Biodiversity; Marine-based Drug Discovery & Development; Genomics and Proteomics of Marine Organisms; Aquatic Microbial Ecology.

In the augural address, Dr. Rakesh Kumar, a distinguished professor in Biotechnology, on behalf of the President of Drug Discovery and Therapy World Congress 2013 (DDTWC 2013) and the World Biotechnology Congress (WBC 2013), Dr. Ferid Murad (a renowned Nobel Laureate), who could unfortunately not make it to these events, extended a very warm welcome to the honourable Nobel Laureates, leading scientists and young researchers participating in these two grand symposia.

A total of 8 Plenary lectures were delivered for a joint Plenary session of DDTWC 2013 and WBC 2013 namely by Dr. Antonio M. Gotto, Dr. Allan L. Goldstein, Dr. Rudolf Jaenisch, Dr. Richard Lee Atkinson, Sir Alan Fersht, Dr. Paul Greengard (Nobel Laureate), Dr. Karl Barry Sharpless (Nobel Laureate) and Dr. Edmond J. Yunis.

Similarly, a number of Keynote lectures were presented by Dr. William Weglicki, Dr. Kristi L Helke, Dr. Rathnam Chaguturu, Dr. Attilio Di Pietro, Dr. Caroline M. Apovian, Dr. Robert J. Linhardt, Dr. Barry Springer, Dr. Mark G. Moloney, Dr. Jeffrey Ulmer, Dr. Dimiter S. Dimitrov, Dr. Paul Imbach and Evan Y. Snyder.

There were a total of 350 Registrants on the list of World Biotechnology Congress 2013 as against slightly more than 350 for Drug Discovery and Therapy World Congress 2013.

Each day commenced with 2 Plenary lectures, followed by keynote, invited and session lectures. The platform of WBC 2013 presented 8 Invited whereas 127 Session lectures. On the contrary, DDTWC 2013 set the stage for 12 Invited and 148 Session lectures.

The conferences proffered an incredible opportunity to basic research, clinical findings and practices in the various thematic sessions along with poster sessions, covering both pre-clinical and clinical research in drug discovery and therapy as well as all the major areas of biotechnology,

To ensure that the participants do not miss out the poster sessions, one hour was allotted each day to the poster sessions after the lectures. WBC 2013 held a meticulous poster session of 140 posters. Similarly, DDTWC 2013 exhibited around 135 posters.

The poster presenters displayed their skillfully created and enthusiasticlly organized posters, which attracted a large number of delegates to acknowledge the efforts of the presenters.

The winding up of the conference presented the Cash Distribution Ceremony which was the most sought after event of this conference, rewarding one best poster for each conference. A panel of judges shouldered the responsibility to assess all the posters very critically, finally awarding the best poster which geared up immense interest amongst the participants.