The Path to Tomorrow's Treatments: Where does it begin? Exploring the Sussex Drug Discovery Centre.
Join us for an engaging, hands-on journey through the drug discovery process.
Our multi-disciplinary team of Medicinal Chemists and Biologists will highlight the stages involved in our research and subsequent testing phases, from identifying targets and screening, to visualizing how drug molecules interact at an atomic level and building molecules through design and synthesis.
Explore the Interactive Station Rotations with integrated posters, showcasing how we find starting points, understand interactions and build molecules. These crucial steps pave the way for essential testing phases – the first steps towards tomorrow’s treatments.
Itinerary for the session:
- A brief welcome and introduction by Professor Erika Mancini
- Interactive Stations and Poster Rotations
Station 1: Finding the Starting Point - Targets & Screening
Station 2: Seeing is Believing - Structural Biology
Station 3: Chemistry Lab Magic - Building the Molecules
- Concluding Remarks and Next Steps by Professor John Spencer
Please go ahead and register for your free ticket here.
Please email any questions to organiser Trudy Myers t.myers@sussex.ac.uk
This event is part of the Summer of Research 2025, a two-week festival of researcher-led talks, workshops and exhibitions celebrating our fantastic research here at the University of Sussex. Find out about and sign up for other exciting events here!
