Discngine Meetup Vol. 5

Peptide Discovery: Pushing boundaries with innovative science and technology

October 16, 2025 - 4:00 pm CET / 10:00 am EDT

Virtual

Join us at our annual community event

 

Explore the current state and future outlooks in the early peptide discovery projects

Discngine Meetup is an annual online gathering that brings together the Discngine network of early drug discovery scientists and IT experts to showcase and discuss recent advancements in the field. 

This year, the event theme, "Peptide Discovery: Pushing boundaries with innovative science and technology," will cover exciting use cases, best practices, and unmet needs in peptide design, modeling, data management, research tools and technologies, and more. 

By attending this two-hour virtual event, you will gain valuable insights into effective approaches for peptide design and discovery, as well as IT solutions to address the ongoing challenges in this progressing field.

The event is a great opportunity to learn what your peers are working on, exchange ideas, and make meaningful connections. 

 

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Speakers
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Jennifer Hanisak, Ph.D.

Associate Principal Scientist, Peptide Discovery, Merck & Co.

 

Medicinal chemistry expert currently working on macrocyclic peptides and focused on expanding capabilities around peptide design and synthesis.

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Leonardo De Maria, Ph.D.

Principal Scientist, AstraZeneca

 

Prominent computational chemist fully involved in the computational design and optimization of R&I New Modality compounds.

 

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Alec Flyer, Ph.D.

Associate Director, Novartis Institutes of BioMedical Research (NIBR)

 

Medicinal chemistry expert with a background in developing orally bioavailable cyclic peptides.

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Markus Kossner, Ph.D.

Scientific Services Manager, Chemical Computing Group

 

Experienced application scientist supporting Drug Discovery experts with contempoprary technology for peptide discovery.

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Agenda

Time Session
CET (Paris) EDT (Boston)  
16:00 - 16:10  10:00 - 10:10 Online access & Welcome 
16:10 - 16:45 10:10 - 10:45

Plenary talk: Leonardo De Maria, Ph.D.

Therapeutic peptide generative models, scoring functions, and retrosynthesis
16:45 - 17:15 10:45 - 11:15

Presentation: Jennifer Hanisak, Ph.D.

Advancements in peptide late-stage functionalization for drug discovery
17:15 - 17:45 11:15 - 11:45

Roundtable: Leonardo De Maria, Ph.D. (chair), Alec Flyer, Ph.D., Markus Kossner, Ph.D., Jennifer Hanisak, Ph.D. 

The future of Peptide Discovery: challenges, best practices, and outlooks
from 17:45 from 11:45

Networking

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16:00 - 16:45

Welcome & Plenary

John Smith, Novartis: "Peptide design 2.0"
16:45 - 17:15

Presentation 

John Smith, Bayer: "Innovation ..."
17:15 - 17:45

Presentation

David Thompson, CCG: "Technology..."

 

How was last year?

Discover a glimpse of an atmosphere at Discngine Meetup Vol. 4 last year