North American RDKit UGM Open For Registration!
We are pleased to announce we are finally having a North American RDKit UGM Meeting in 2025. The event will be held at the Bristol Myers Squibb facility in Cambridge Massachusetts April 10-11.
Just like the standard UGM the event is free of charge.
Request For Speakers
We still have a call for speakers, if you wish to join the amazing group of speakers below, we have spots for full or lightning talks. Please email [brian.kelley@bagim.com](mailto:brian.kelley@bagim.com), [nmathai@parabilismed.com](mailto:nmathai@parabilismed.com) or [Francis.prael@bms.com](mailto:Francis.prael@bms.com):
Current Agenda and Speakers (Some titles are tentative)
State of the RDKit - Greg Landrum or Brian Kelley
Chemical Formats and the RDKit - Brian Kelley
David Deng (Novartis) - The Role of Open-Source Toolkits in Advancing Chemical Registration Systems: A Case Study from Novartis
John Santa Maria (Parabalis) - title TBD
Zhengkai Tu (MIT) - ASKCOS development
Mason Burlarge (Recursion) - Synthesis automation/synthesis aware molecular design
Guillaume Godin (OSMO) - Mordred Descriptors
Pat Walters (Relay Therapeutics) - Key Note
Call For Sponsors:
In order to keep the event free, we need your help! We are looking for sponsorship for catering the event, in case your organization wants to donate in lieu of attendance fees, please contact us.
Current Sponsors:
Thanks to our current RGM sponsors for helping to make this UGM free and open.
Parabalis, BMS, Glysade, NextMove
We look forward to seeing you at the First RDKit UGM.
Brian Kelley
Program Chair
Boston Area Group for Informatics and Modelling
Neann Mathai
Program Vice Chair
Senior Cheminformatician Parabilis Medicines
Francis Prael
Program Vice Chair
Scientist, Cheminformatics/AI/ML, Bristol Myers Squibb
Anthony Arvanites
Program Treasurer
Boston Area Group for Informatics and Modelling
