BAGIM Event: Dr. Celia Schiffer, Tuesday Sept. 22nd, starting at 5:30pm

The BAGIM executive committee is pleased to announce the start of our program season on September 22nd, 2015 with a presentation by Dr. Celia Schiffer of the University of Massachusetts Medical School. 

Dr. Schiffer will present "Combating Drug Resistance: Lessons from Viruses" at 6:30 pm following refreshments at 5:30 pm on the 9th floor of the Vertex One building on Northern Avenue in Boston. 

Please RSVP for this event  so that we can plan for refreshments and speed sign-in.

BAGIM is sponsored by OpenEye Scientific Software, Schrodinger, Chemical Computing Group, ARIAD Pharmaceuticals, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Optibrium, and ChemAxon

Last BAGIM Event of the year: Dr. Chris Williams Thursday July 9th

Dr. Chris Williams from Chemical Computing Group will present “Creating Focused Mutant Libraries for Protein Engineering” at 6pm in the Theater Room at the Harvard Faculty Club on Quincy Street in Cambridge, MA. A social hour with refreshments will follow (details pending). 

Please RSVP  to register for this event by July 6th.

BAGIM is sponsored by OpenEye Scientific Software, Schrodinger, Chemical Computing Group, ARIAD Pharmaceuticals, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Optibrium, and ChemAxon

BAGIM Event: Dr. Woody Sherman Monday June 8th

Dr. Woody Sherman of Schrodinger will present "Designing Inhibitors with Better Drug Resistance Profiles" at the Millennium Takeda Oncology building at 35 Landsdowne Street in Cambridge, MA tomorrow night, Monday, June 8th. The evening will begin at 6pm with refreshments followed by Dr. Sherman’s presentation at 7pm. 

Please indicate your intent to join us for this presentation by RSVPing .

BAGIM is sponsored by OpenEye Scientific Software, Schrodinger, Chemical Computing Group, ARIAD Pharmaceuticals, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Optibrium, and ChemAxon

BAGIM Event: Dr. Amy Keating, Thursday March 5th

Dr. Amy Keating of MIT will present "Modeling and Re-designing Protein-Protein Interactions" on Thursday, March 5th at 6:30 pm following refreshments at 5:30 pm on the 9th floor of the Vertex One building on Northern Avenue. 

Vertex is a short 12 minute walk from South Station via Atlantic and Northern Avenues, or take the Silver Line bus from South Station to Court House Station and cross Northern Avenue. Parking is available in the Pilgrim Parking Fan Pier parking garage beneath the building for a flat $15 fee after 5pm. There is also street parking with coin meters and smart meters in the area. 

The snow date for this event is March 12th.

BAGIM is sponsored by OpenEye Scientific Software, Schrodinger, Chemical Computing Group, ARIAD Pharmaceuticals, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Optibrium, and ChemAxon

Please RSVP for this event.  

UPDATED BAGIM Event: Dr. Derek Lowe, Wednesday February 11th

The BAGIM executive committee is pleased to announce that Dr. Derek Lowe of Vertex Pharmaceuticals and author of the “In the Pipeline” blog will present at the Millennium Takeda Oncology building at 35 Landsdowne Street in Cambridge, MA on Wednesday, February 11th. The evening will begin at 6pm with refreshments followed by Dr. Lowe’s presentation at 7pm. 

Please indicate your intent to join us for this presentation by RSVPing. Use your full name for the response.

BAGIM is sponsored by OpenEye Scientific Software, Schrodinger, Chemical Computing Group, ARIAD Pharmaceuticals, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Optibrium, and ChemAxon

BAGIM Event: ChEMBL Roadshow, December 5th at 1pm at Vertex

Dr. John Overington and Dr. George Papadatos of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory will present a series of topics, including an introduction to the ChEMBL bioactivity database, how it can be used in drug discovery, accessing it via SQL, KNIME, and local virtual machines, and SureChEMBL, which includes structural patent data.

The presentations will begin at 1pm on December 5th on the 9th floor of building 1 at the Vertex site in Boston (50 Northern Avenue), and will likely run 2 1/2 to 3 hours. Vertex is a short 12 minute walk from South Station via Atlantic and Northern Avenues, or take the Silver Line bus from South Station to Court House Station and cross Northern Avenue. Parking is available in the Pilgrim Parking Fan Pier parking garage beneath the building.

BAGIM is sponsored by OpenEye Scientific Software, Schrodinger, Chemical Computing Group, ARIAD Pharmaceuticals, Vertex Pharmaceuticals,and ChemAxon.
Please RSVP  so that we may get an attendee count and register you with security. See you there!

BAGIM Event: Dr. Mark Murcko Thursday October 30th at 5:30pm

Dr. Mark Murcko will present "Predicting Binding Free Energies: Problem Solved?" at 5:30pm at the Harvard Faculty Club on Quincy Street in Cambridge, MA. Social hour with pizza and appetizers will follow at 7pm at the Uno Pizzaria & Grill, 22 John F. Kennedy Street in Cambridge, a seven minute walk. 

Please feel free to join us for this talk and if you plan to join us for social hour afterwards, please RSVP.

BAGIM is sponsored by OpenEye Scientific Software, Schrodinger, Chemical Computing Group, ARIAD Pharmaceuticals, Vertex Pharmaceuticals,and ChemAxon.