EU-OPENSCREEN AUTUMN TRAINING SCHOOL 2025
We're delighted to announce the fifth edition of our annual AUTUMN TRAINING SCHOOL!
Are you curious about the latest tools and trends shaping the future of early-stage drug discovery?
EU-OPENSCREEN is inviting you to our Autumn Online Training School on Early Drug Discovery. The event will take place from 24–26 November 2025. It will be three inspiring days packed with cutting-edge science, practical know-how, and expert insights.
This training school is for you if you are an early-career researcher, a data scientist or interested in early-stage drug discovery. It offers a unique opportunity to gain new insights and connect with leading experts in the field. All sessions can be attended comfortably from your own screen.
Participation fee: free of charge
Please register here: https://forms.office.com/e/xz7tNSh2uX
Schedule
Monday - November 24, 2025
9:20 - 09:30 | Welcome and Introduction |
1st Session | Screening Platforms and Automation |
9:30 - 10:00 | EU-OPENSCREEN ERIC Screening and Medicinal Chemistry ServicesPhil GribbonDirector General EU-OPENSCREEN ERIC |
10:00 - 10:45 | High-Throughput Screening & Automation: How robotics and automation transform experimental design and scale-up David Garcia LopezCompound Manager EU-OPENSCREEN ERIC |
| 10:45 | Break (15') |
11:00 - 11:45 | Assay development and optimizationPepo BreaHead of HTS Unit BioFarma Research Group, University of Santiago de Compostela (USC), Spain |
| 11:45 | Lunch Break (45') |
2nd Session | Analytical Tools & Screening Applications |
12:30 - 13:15 | Developing a Target Product Profile in drug discoverySheraz GulHead of Innovation Area Drug Screening & Compound Repurposing, Fraunhofer Institute for Translational Medicine and Pharmacology, Germany |
13:15 - 14:00 | Spatial MS-based omics in early drug discoveryProf. Dr. Carsten HopfHead of Institute of Instrumental Analytics and Bioanalytics-Mannheim University of Applied Sciences, Head of CeMOS (Center for Mass Spectrometry and Optical Spectroscopy), Germany |
| 14:00 | Break (15') |
14:15 - 15:00 | Medicinal chemistryMark BrönstrupHead of Chemical Biology Dep. at Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Professor at Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany |
15:00 - 15:45 | Compound library designFlavio BallanteSenior Research Infrastructure Specialist, Computational Chemistry Dep. at Chemical Biology Consortium Sweden (CBCS, SciLifeLab), Karolinska Institute |
Tuesday - November 25, 2025
3rd Session | Functional Genomics & Data Platforms |
09:30 - 10:15 | The European Chemical Biology Database (ECBD)Ctibor ŠkutaHead of the cheminformatics & software development unit at CZ-OPENSCREEN, Czech Republic |
10:15 - 11:00 | Genetic screensMiguel ManoGroup Leader, Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra (CNC-UC), Portugal & King’s College London, United Kingdom |
| 11:00 | Break (15') |
4th Session | Data Infrastructure & AI for Drug Discovery |
11:15 - 12:00 | Perspectives on emerging trends in machine learning for chemical and biological data analysis: overview of Kaggle solubility prediction and Tox24 challenge resultsIgor TetkoGroup Leader, Helmholtz Zentrum München-Institute of Structural Biology |
| 12:00 | Lunch Break (60') |
13:00 - 13:25 | FAIR Data & Data Management (AI/ML)Dr. Leonie Von BerlinLead of Technology Platform Medical Data Science, Data Scientist & Data Manager, Fraunhofer ITMP, Hamburg, Germany |
13:25 - 14:10 | Graph databases-applications of Knowledge Graphs and AI/ML and their application in drug discoveryDr. Reagon KarkiData Manager/Scientist, Fraunhofer ITMP, Hamburg, Germany |
Wednesday - November 26, 2025
5th Session | 3D Models: Experimental and Imaging Approaches |
09:30 - 10:15 | The use of advanced cell models for drug screeningRosario Fernández GodinoHead of Screening & Target Validation-Drug Discovery, MEDINA, Spain |
10:15 - 11:00 | Microscopy and imaging-based 2D and 3D models (data acquisition and visualization)Inés Sáenz de Santa MaríaMarie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, Centro de Investigación Príncipe Felipe (CIPF), Spain |
| 11:00 | Break (15') |
11:15 - 12:00 | AI-guided phenotypic screensPatrick Aloy CalafICREA Research Professor, Structural Bioinformatics & Network Biology Group at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), Spain |
| 12:00 | Lunch Break (45') |
12:45 - 13:30 | Active-Learning Loops Between Screening and Medicinal ChemistryRui MoreiraProfessor and group leader, iMed.ULisboa, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Lisbon, Portugal |