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AIRF organises a webinar on “Computational Methods in Hit and Lead Identification/Optimization for Drug Discovery”

AIRF organises a webinar on “Computational Methods in Hit and Lead Identification/Optimization for Drug Discovery”

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AIRF organises a webinar on “Computational Methods in Hit and Lead Identification/Optimization for Drug Discovery”
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Advanced Instrumentation Research Facility
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY
New Mehrauli Road, NEW DELHI-110067, India
Tel: 91-11- 26704600, 26704560; Fax: 011-26741966
E mail: directorairf@mail.jnu.ac.in

 

Two-days hands-on cloud-based workshop

 

on

Computational Methods in Hit and Lead Identification/Optimization for Drug Discovery

 

19th - 20th Nov 2020

Time: 10:00am - 16:00 pm

 

Advanced Instrumentation Research Facility (AIRF) of JNU provides services to scientific community as well as conduct a series of workshop/webinar/training programs on advance instruments and facilities in biological / chemical/ physical sciences areas to capacity buildings as well as knowledge dissemination. In this series, AIRF is organizing a next workshop on “Computational Methods in Hit and Lead Identification/Optimization for Drug Discovery” to be held on 19th - 20th Nov 2020. The webinar shall be online and will have lectures and hand on sessions by application specialists.

 

Outline: The two-day hands-on cloud-based workshop include lecture and practical session on targeting structure & ligand-based drug discovery using the Schrödinger suite hosted on Amazon web servers. Participants shall get practical experience using the software and in-person guidance on the following topics: Maestro GUI, organic molecule enumerations, protein selection, preparation, hit/ lead optimizations, etc. They shall learn rational strategies to screen small molecule hit and lead identification against therapeutic targets of interest. The workshop shall include brief background presentations for Molecular Docking, Pharmacophore Modeling, 3D QSAR, and case studies on real-time industrial drug discovery projects.

 

How to apply: Application forms are available here. Applications are invited from registered research students/scholars from an Academic Institution. The webinar is open to all research students and scholars. Depending upon availability not more than one research student / scholar from each lab will be allowed. Decisions of the screening committee shall be final and only selected candidates will be allowed to participate in the workshop. All participants who have attended training session successfully will get e-certificate.

 

PRE – REGISTRATION

The training is free and open to all registered research Students and Scholars. Application has to be sent to the workshop.airfjnu@gmail.com and cc to parveenkumar@mail.jnu.ac.in on or before 17th November, 2020 till 5:00PM.

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Initially, established as a Centre for Chinese and Japanese Studies, it subsequently grew to include Korean Studies as well. At present there are eight faculty members in the Centre. Several distinguished faculty who have now retired include the late Prof. Gargi Dutt, Prof. P.A.N. Murthy, Prof. G.P. Deshpande, Dr. Nranarayan Das, Prof. R.R. Krishnan and Prof. K.V. Kesavan. Besides, Dr. Madhu Bhalla served at the Centre in Chinese Studies Programme during 1994-2006. In addition, Ms. Kamlesh Jain and Dr. M. M. Kunju served the Centre as the Documentation Officers in Chinese and Japanese Studies respectively.

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Several students of the centre have been recipients of prestigious research fellowships awarded by Japan Foundation, Mombusho (Ministry of Education, Government of Japan), Saburo Okita Memorial Fellowship, Nippon Foundation, Korea Foundation, Nehru Memorial Fellowship, and Fellowship from the Chinese and Taiwanese Governments. Besides, students from Japan receive fellowship from the Indian Council of Cultural Relations.