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miniCUP Tokyo 2025

Written by OpenEye Scientific | Jul 25, 2025 2:33:22 PM

miniCUP Tokyo 2025 will be held on October 14th, 2025



OpenEye's miniCUP series brings our latest scientific advancements to you. Our upcoming miniCUP Tokyo 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:
Station Conference Tokyo
100-0005 1-7-12 Sapia Tower
Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo

Event Agenda:
10:00 Registration & Coffee/Tea

Foundations:
10:30 Opening remarks – Louis Culot, CVP, Molecular Sciences Group

11:00 Molecular shape and color: Unifying principles for success in drug discovery – Paul Hawkins, Product Evangelist

11:30 Understanding and Predicting the Membrane Permeability of CyclicPeptides Based on Large-Scale Data - Shinsuke Sando, The University of Tokyo

Networking Lunch

Platform Advances:
13:00 Empower your chemists with interactive Molecule Search – Koji Oda, Application Scientist

13:15 Click. Compute. Cure? Enabling modern computational design – Jeff Grandy, VP Sales

Target Exploration:
13:30 Pocket ligandability: identifying actionable cryptic pockets across the druggable proteome – David LeBard, Scientific Software Director

14:00 Identification & exploration of novel sites for covalent docking – David LeBard, Scientific Software Director

Coffee/Tea break

Hit Identification:
15:00 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

15:30 OMEGA: State of the art conformer generation with Bayesian sampling – Caitlin Bannan, Manager, Scientific Research and Development

Coffee/Tea break

Lead Discovery & Optimization:
16:30 Boltz2 benchmark on in-house dataset: thinking of how to effectively use in drug discovery campaigns - Akitoshi Okada, Daiichi Sankyo

17:00 ML-Enabled integration of affinity prediction and lead discovery: 3D-QSAR – Paul Hawkins, Product Evangelist

17:30 Free energy prediction for drug discovery: Ideas at breakfast, discoveries by lunch – Chris Neale, Manager Affinity Group

Closing & Reception:
18:00 Closing Remarks

Reception: Cocktails and refreshments

 

Registration for miniCUP Tokyo is now open. Reserve your spot today!