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Modern Approaches to Patent Exploration in Medicinal Chemistry
From Early Novelty Checks to Idea Generation

About the event
Patent literature is one of the earliest and richest sources of information in small-molecule drug discovery, but it is also one of the hardest actually to use.
For medicinal chemists doing patent exploration, competitive intelligence, or project scoping, the bottleneck is rarely whether the data exists. It is whether you can efficiently browse hundreds of complex molecules, spot what is chemically meaningful, and trust that you have fully covered the relevant prior art.
Join us for a comprehensive session that bridges the gap between raw patent data and active compound design with modern technology!
What to expect?
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A plenary talk on how medicinal chemists now approach idea generation and early novelty checks, and what has changed in these workflows
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A live workflow demo of patent SAR exploration in Discngine's Ideation Analytics, powered by GOSTAR® patent data
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A roundtable where industry experts discuss how they efficiently navigate novelty and prior art and manage competitive intelligence in their own pipelines, followed by an interactive audience Q&A.
Who should attend?
This event is designed for everyone working at the intersection of chemistry and intellectual property, including medicinal chemists and lead optimization teams seeking white space and new ideas, computational chemists and cheminformaticians interested in the workflows behind patent exploration, and patent information professionals.

Christopher Southan
Honorary Professor at The University of Edinburgh

Speaker to be announced
Panelists

Rishi Gupta
Director, Data Science at Novartis Biomedical Research

Christophe Poitevin
Project Manager, Medicinal Chemistry at Servier

Morten Langgård
IP Information Specialist, Global Patents at Lundbeck

Nishanth Kandepedu
Principal Product Manager at Excelra



More speakers to be announced soon...
| Time (CET) | Session |
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| 4:00 – 4:05 pm | Welcome |
| 4:05 – 4:25 pm | Plenary talk: Christopher Southan Talk title to be announced |
| 4:25 – 4:35 pm | Live demonstration: Riccardo Martini Patent SAR exploration in Ideation Analytics, powered by GOSTAR® patent data |
| 4:35 – 4:55 pm | Roundtable: Rishi Gupta (Chair), Christophe Poitevin, Morten Langgård, and Nishanth Kandepedu Keeping pace: fresh patents, generative chemistry and automated novelty checks |
| 4:55 – 5:00 pm | Audience Q&A and wrap-up |
