BPS track: 'Use of novel technologies to enable drug discovery and drug repurposing'
🗓️ Day 2 - Wednesday, 22 October 2025
🕚 11:00 - 16:45
📍 The Viewing Terrace, Exhibition Centre, Liverpool.
Drug discovery and development remains an expensive process, beset with many failures. Drug repurposing also has its challenges. It is therefore important to develop or refine novel methodologies and technologies to improve success rates in drug discovery and drug repurposing. We live in an age where this is now possible. This track will focus on technologies such as genomics, proteomics and AI, and how they are being employed for drug discovery and drug repurposing, with the talks being given by world-leading researchers from different professional backgrounds.
Programme
This three-session track will take place between 11:00 - 16:45 with two refreshment breaks in between.
11:00 - 12:45: Session 1
12:45 - 14:00: Refreshment break
14:00 - 15:15: Session 2
15:15 - 15:45: Refreshment break
15:45 - 17:00: Session 3
Speakers
Professor Reecha Sofat - University of Liverpool
"Using observational data for drug repurposing"
Professor Segun Fatumo - Queen Mary University of London
"Unlocking African Genomes for Drug Discovery and Development"
Dr Steve Gardner - Precision Life
"Uncovering new precision medicine diagnostic and therapeutic options for ME/CFS and long COVID"
Dr Anthony Bradley - University of Liverpool
TBC
Professor Chris Bakal - The Institute of Cancer Research
"4D Morphodynamics to Power AI-Driven Drug Discovery. Learning from Shape"
Dr Benjamin Sun, MD PhD - Bristol Myers Squibb
"Population-scale proteomics in health and disease: relevance for drug discovery"
Chairs
Professor Munir Pirmohamed - University of Liverpool
Professor Reecha Sofat - University of Liverpool
More information & free registration
Visit the Drug Discovery 2025 website.
