title: The Screening Asia Conference 2010: an update.
abstract: The conference was the first of its kind in a series of trend-setting conferences conceived and organized by Select Biosciences. The conference was held in the state-of-the-art Matrix Building, Metropolis. The topics covered were grouped into the following half-day sessions: high-content screening, high-throughput screening, RNAi screening, novel drug-discovery techniques and assay development, and screening natural extracts and small molecules. Petr Bartunek (Group Leader, Institute of Molecular Genetics, Prague, Czech Republic), Rathnam Chaguturu (Director, High-Throughput Screening Laboratories, University of Kansas, USA) and Paul Orange (Business Leader, Bio-Discovery, PerkinElmer) were the keynote speakers. The conference attendees were from academia and the biotechnology and pharmaceutical sectors. The Screening Asia 2010 was designed to address, from a regional and international perspective, how best to approach the one issue that has been at the forefront of the drug-discovery endeavors: who is best suited among academia, biotechnology and pharmaceutics to discover chemical probes against key therapeutic targets, and how best one could implement the processes.
authors.affiliation: Molecular Biosciences, University of Kansas, Structural Biology Center, 2121 Simons Drive, Room 1059, Lawrence, KS 66047, USA. rathnam@ku.edu
authors.forename: Rathnam
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Chaguturu
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001208:Asia; D055808:Drug Discovery / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends; D057166:High-Throughput Screening Assays / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D034622:RNA Interference; D012846:Singapore