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ORAL PRESENTATIONS

 

2010 EFMC-ISMC, Brussels.

Bioisosteres from ligand- and structure-based data analysis

 

2009 Hot topics in drug discovery: finding the next lead, London.

Target validation and druggability

 

2008 What a chemist needs to know about chemoinformatics and SAR, London.

Computational methods for the identification of bioisosteres

 

2003 G-protein coupled receptors in drug discovery, Strasbourg.

Identifying the chemical space and properties of GPCR ligands and designing focused libraries

 

2003 Cutting Edge Approaches to Drug Design, London UK.

Selecting druggable targets

 

1999 UK-QSAR Meeting, Harlow.

SLATE: a method for the superposition of flexible ligands

 

1997 213th ACS National Meeting, San Francisco, CA, April 13-17 1997, COMP-337.

Molecular similarity for pharmacophore mapping. 

 

PUBLICATIONs


SAR mining and its application to the design of TRPA1 antagonists. MedChemComm 2011 accepted. doi:10.1039/c1md00213a


Discovery of PF-184563, a potent and selective V1a antagonist for the treatment of dysmenorrhoea. The influence of compound flexibility on microsomal stability. Bioorg Med. Chem. Lett. 2011, 21(19), 5684-5687. doi: 10.1016%2Fj.bmcl.2011.08.038


Design of a multi-purpose fragment screening library using molecular complexity and orthogonal diversity metrics. Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design 2011, 25, 621-636. doi:10.1007/s10822-011-9434-0


Trypanosoma brucei glycogen synthase kinase-3, a target for anti-trypanosomal drug development: a public-private partnership to identify novel leads.
  PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 2011,  5(4),  e1017. doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0001017

 

Aromatic chloride to nitrile transformation: medicinal and synthetic chemistry.  MedChemComm 2010,  1(5),  309-318. doi:10.1039/C0MD00135J

 

High-Throughput Virtual Screening of Proteins Using GRID Molecular Interaction Fields.  Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling 2010, 50(1),155-169. doi:10.1021/ci9003317

 

Enhanced HTS Hit Selection via a Local Hit Rate Analysis. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling  2009, 49(10),  2202-2210. doi:10.1021/ci900113d

 

Pyrazole NNRTIs 3: Optimisation of physicochemical properties.    Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett.  2009,  19(19),  5603-5606. doi:10.1016/j.bmcl.2009.08.043

 

CCR5 pharmacology methodologies and associated applications. Methods in Enzymology 2009,  460(Chemokines, Part A),  17-55. doi:10.1016/S0076-6879(09)05202-1

 

Succinyl hydroxamates as potent and selective non-peptidic inhibitors of procollagen C-proteinase: Design, synthesis, and evaluation as topically applied, dermal anti-scarring agents.  Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett.  2008,  18(24),  6562-6567. doi:10.1016/j.bmcl.2008.10.036

 

N-Benzyl-N-(pyrrolidin-3-yl)carboxamides as a new class of selective dual serotonin/noradrenaline reuptake inhibitors.    Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett. 2008, 18(15),  4308-4311. doi:10.1016/j.bmcl.2008.06.078

 

Computational tools for the analysis and visualization of multiple protein-ligand complexes. Journal of Molecular Graphics & Modelling 2005, 24(3),  186-194. doi:10.1016/j.jmgm.2005.08.003

 

Designing libraries from HTS data: Hot fragments and activity models.  Abstracts of Papers, 229th ACS National Meeting, San Diego, CA, United States, March 13-17, 2005  2005, CINF-054.

 

Development of a Pharmacophore Model for Histamine H3 Receptor Antagonists, Using the Newly Developed Molecular Modeling Program SLATE. J. Med. Chem.  2001, 44(11),  1666-1674. doi:10.1021/jm001109k

 

Superposition of flexible ligands to predict positions of receptor hydrogen-bonding atoms. Molecular Modeling and Prediction of Bioactivity, [Proceedings of the European Symposium on Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationships: Molecular Modeling and Prediction of Bioactivity], 12th, Copenhagen, Denmark, Aug. 23-28, 1998 2000, Meeting Date 1998, 412-413. 

 

Hydrogen-bonding hotspots as an aid for site-directed drug design.  Molecular Modeling and Prediction of Bioactivity, [Proceedings of the European Symposium on Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationships: Molecular Modeling and Prediction of Bioactivity], 12th, Copenhagen, Denmark, Aug. 23-28, 1998 2000,  Meeting Date 1998,  410-411. 

 

SLATE: a method for the superposition of flexible ligands.  Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design  2001, 15(1),  81-96. doi:10.1023/A:1011102129244

 

An automated method for predicting the positions of hydrogen-bonding atoms in binding sites.    Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design 1997, 11(3),  229-242. doi:10.1023/A:1007900527102

 

Three-dimensional hydrogen-bond geometry and probability information from a crystal survey.    Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design  1996,  10(6),  607-622. doi:10.1007/BF00134183

 

The role of molecular similarity in lead generation. Book Chapter in Bioactive Compound Design  1996, 57-66. 

 

Molecular surface-volume and property matching to superpose flexible dissimilar molecules.    Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design 1995,  9(6),  479-90. doi:10.1007/BF00124319

 

pATENTs


Preparation of pyrrolidines as antagonists of prostaglandin E2 receptor.
  (2010)  WO  2010052625

 

Pyridinone compounds as melanin concentrating hormone receptor-1 antagonists and their preparation, pharmaceutical compositions and use in the treatment of diseases. (2008) WO  2008041090



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