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Sunday
May 24, 2026
| 16:00 – 19:00 | Registration |
| 18:00 – 18:30 | Coffee Break |
| 19:30 – 20:30 | Dinner |
| 20:45 – 22:00 | EWDD26 Opening Ceremony & Inauguration Lecture by William L. Jorgensen Evolution of Computer-Aided Drug Discovery |
Monday
May 25, 2026
| 09:00 – 09:40 | Daniel Rauh Advancing precision oncology through functional screening and small-molecule design |
| 09:40 – 10:20 | Doris Schütz tba |
| 10:20 – 11:00 | Edgar Jacoby The VLAIO Dynaphor project as a successful example of an academia-industry collaboration – Dynamic Pharmacophores for In Silico Hit Identification in Ultra Large Compound Libraries. |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Coffee Break |
| 11:30 – 12:10 | Sharon Bryant Harnessing Next Generation Pharmacophores for Accelerating and DeRisking Drug Discovery |
| 12:10 – 12:50 | Wolfgang Sippl tba |
| 12:50 – 13:30 | Poster Flash Presentations |
| 13:30 – 14:30 | Lunch Break |
| 14:30 – 15:00 | Poster Session (1) |
| 15:00 – 16:30 | Software Demonstrations | Case Studies (1) |
| 16:30 – 17:00 | Coffee Break |
| 17:00 – 18:30 | Software Demonstrations | Case Studies (2) |
| 19:30 – 20:30 | Dinner |
| 20:30 – 21:30 | Social Special Activity |
Tuesday
May 26, 2026
| 09:00 – 09:40 | Francesca Grisoni tba |
| 09:40 – 10:20 | Klaus-Jürgen Schleifer tba |
| 10:20 – 11:00 | Zoe Cournia tba |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Coffee Break |
| 11:30 – 12:10 | Mehran Jalaie Methods in Drug Discovery: What They Didn’t Teach You in School! |
| 12:10 – 12:50 | Stefano Alcaro tba |
| 12:50 – 13:20 | |
| 13:30 – 14:30 | Lunch Break |
| 14:30 – 16:00 | Software Demonstrations | Case Studies (3) |
| 16:00 – 16:30 | Coffee Break |
| 16:30 – 18:00 | Software Demonstrations | Case Studies (4) |
| ~ 18:00 | Departure to Siena |
| 20:00 – 22:30 | Social Dinner, Piazza del Campo, Siena |
Wednesday
May 27, 2026
| 09:00 – 09:40 | Gerhard Ecker Prediction of Toxicity – let’s talk about fingerprints and imputation |
| 09:40 – 10:20 | Maria Letizia Barreca Driving Innovation in Small-Molecule Drug Discovery: Novel MoA and Data-Enabled Tools |
| 10:20 – 11:00 | Gerhard Hessler From Molecules to Design: Deep Learning in Drug Discovery |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Coffee Break |
| 11:30 – 12:10 | Anders Hogner tba |
| 12:10 – 12:50 | Gerhard Wolber tba |
| 12:50 – 13:30 | Poster Flash Presentations |
| 13:30 – 14:30 | Lunch Break |
| 14:30 – 15:00 | Poster Session (2) |
| 15:00 – 16:30 | Software Demonstrations | Case Studies (5) |
| 16:30 – 17:00 | Coffee Break |
| 17:00 – 18:30 | Software Demonstrations | Case Studies (6) |
| 19:30 – 20:30 | Dinner |
| 20:30 – 21:30 | Social Special Activity |
Thursday
May 28, 2026
| 09:00 – 09:40 | Federica Moraca tba |
| 09:40 – 10:20 | Daniele Pala tba |
| 10:20 – 10:45 | Ugo Perricone Revisiting Deep Learning DTA algorithms from the dataset point of view |
| 10:45 – 11:15 | Coffee Break & Room Check-out |
| 11:15 – 12:20 | Javier Luque QM-based hydropathic descriptors to explore ligand-target interactions |
| 12:20 – 13:00 | Poster Award and Closing Ceremony |
| 13:30 – 14:30 | Farewell Lunch |