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title: miniCUP Boston 2025
description: Hear from OpenEye, industry speakers and learn of updates to our Orion® molecular design platform, applications, and toolkits at miniCUP Boston 2025.
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# [miniCUP Boston 2025](https://www.eyesopen.com/events/minicup-boston-2025)

 Written by [OpenEye Scientific](https://www.eyesopen.com/events/author/openeye-scientific) | Jun 16, 2025 3:01:00 PM

#### miniCUP Boston 2025 will be held on September 25th, 2025

OpenEye's miniCUP series brings our latest scientific advancements to you. Our upcoming miniCUP Boston is a single-day in-person gathering that will provide the opportunity to hear presentations from OpenEye and industry speakers, as well as to learn about the recent updates to the Orion® molecular design platform and our applications and toolkits. Come for the science, and stay for robust discussion at a cocktail reception following the event.

**Location:**  
Bristol Myers Squibb  
250 Water Street  
CMX-189-Auditorium-West & CMX-190-Auditorium-East  
Cambridge, MA 02141

**Event Agenda:   
***9:00 Registration & Coffee/Tea/Pastries

***Foundations:  
**9:30 Opening remarks – Louis Culot, CVP, Molecular Sciences Group & Geoff Skillman, VP, Research and Development

10:00 Molecular shape and color: Unifying principles for success in drug discovery – Paul Hawkins, Product Evangelist

*Coffee/Tea break*

**Target Exploration:  
**11:00 Pocket ligandability: identifying actionable cryptic pockets across the druggable proteome – Neha Vitani, Scientific Developer

11:30 Identification & exploration of novel sites for covalent docking – David LeBard, Scientific Software Director

*Networking Lunch*

**Hit Identification:  
**1:00 Don’t miss your next blockbuster: ROCS X for trillion-scale 3D virtual screening of accessible and novel chemical space – Matt Geballe, Group Director, Scientific Research and Development

1:30 OMEGA: State of the art conformer generation with Bayesian sampling – Caitlin Bannan, Manager, Scientific Research and Development

**Platform Advances:  
**2:00 Empower your chemists with interactive Molecule Search – Suhani Nagpal, Application Scientist

2:15 Click. Compute. Cure? Enabling modern computational design – Jharrod LaFon, VP Research and Development

*Coffee/Tea break*

**Lead Discovery & Optimization:  
**3:15 ML-Enabled integration of affinity prediction and lead discovery: 3D-QSAR – Paul Hawkins, Product Evangelist

3:45 Free energy prediction for drug discovery: Ideas at breakfast, discoveries by lunch – Chris Neale, Manager Affinity Group

**Closing & Reception:  
**4:15 Closing Remarks

*Reception: Cocktails and refreshments*

 

 

Registration is now closed.

 

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