Welcome to the October Cresset Newsletter
Aragen & Torx® Software – from CRO to collaborator
Join us for an insightful webinar with our customer Aragen, a trusted R&D and manufacturing partner to the global life sciences industry. Our guest Dr Samiron Phukan, Head of CADD and informatics Drug Discovery at Aragen Life Sciences, will discuss along with Torx Principal Product Manager Dr Simon Dawson how Aragen utilize the Torx platform to support their mission and changing the ‘optic’ and perspective – from CRO to collaborator. The session will be chaired by Cresset and Torx CEO Dr Tim Cheeseright.
Digital transformation with connected chemistry: Applying a virtuous cycle for smarter drug design
Last few spaces remaining at our free hands-on workshop on November 12th in Cambridge MA. If you’d like to join us, please register to secure your space. We’ll be exploring:
- Rapid approaches to new scaffold generation
- Qualitative analysis of structure-activity relationships (SAR)
- How is digital transformation reshaping the industry?
We’ll conclude with a relaxed happy hour reception. We hope to see you there! Register here.
Accelerating drug discovery since 2002
From pioneering force field technology to enterprise solutions driving digital transformation today – for over 20 years we’ve been supporting discovery programs with trusted, state-of-the-art solutions which accelerate the discovery of new and better molecules.
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Webinar: Enhancing small molecule discovery – a customer perspective on integration of Torx Software and CDD Vault®
If you missed our recent webinar with Collaborative Drug Discovery and Octant, you can view the recording here. We were joined by our guests Dr. Tao Zheng and Dr. Marco Falcioni of Octant, who discussed Octant’s implementation of Torx and CDD Vault in their DMTA discovery workflow.
Cybersecurity Awareness Month
As October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, Cresset’s Head of IT Iain Ronayne discusses how our employees are ‘The first line of defence on the cybersecurity battlefield’ as part of our overall cybersecurity strategy which also includes SOC 2® compliance and Cyber Essentials certification. Read the blog.
Scientific Computing World – Breakthroughs 2025
Cresset’s VP of AI Solutions Dr Mutlu Dogruel features in this month’s special ‘Breakthroughs 2025’ digital edition from SCW, where he explains AI’s transformative potential, highlights the current challenges and discusses potential solutions to successfully implement AI in the drug discovery landscape. Read the article.
Webinar 16th October: Understanding water behavior for enhancing drug design
Join our upcoming technical webinar focused on ‘Understanding water behavior for enhancing drug design’. Throughout this webinar we will:
- Discuss tactics for analysis of waters in protein structures as a means of identifying potential loci for drug design
- Demonstrate visualization of electrostatics as well as water analysis methods such as 3D-RISM and GIST
The tactics will be illustrated with examples from the scientific literature and summarized as a check list for water analysis. View the full webinar abstract and register here.
Blaze™ virtual screening identifies hit compounds in discovery and optimization of a novel insulin-regulated aminopeptidase inhibitor
This month, we highlight the successful use of Cresset’s virtual screening technology to the real-world application of small molecule IRAP inhibitor identification. We discuss how Cresset’s ligand-based 3D virtual screening technology was used to screen millions of compounds in silico, retrieving good hit rates. View the blog.
External Conferences, Exhibitions & Events
Cresset are due to be attending, exhibiting, and/or presenting at the following events. Further details can be found via our upcoming events schedule.
18th German Conference on Cheminformatics (GCC 2024)
03 – 06 November 2024 | Bad Soden, Germany
Aragen & Torx® Software – from CRO to collaborator
7 November 2024 | Online
Digital transformation with connected chemistry: Applying a virtuous cycle for smarter drug design
12 November 2024 | Cambridge, MA
DDX 24 London Innovation & UX Conference
16 November 2024 | London
Understanding water behavior for enhancing drug design
19 November 2024 | Online
28th MGMS Young Modellers’ Forum
29 November 2024 | Oxford
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