(including but not limited to):
Topic 1: Medicinal Chemistry
Target recognition and validation, chemical biology and probe development, hit compound recognition strategies, structure based drug design (SBDD), ligand based drug design (LBDD), lead compound generation and optimization, covalent and fragment chemical expansion of drug potential, induction of neighboring modes (targeted protein degradation/PROTAC), natural products and biologically inspired scaffolds, RNA chemical biology and epigenetic transcriptome regulation, artificial intelligence and data-driven chemical biology, chemical proteomics and target binding, KRAS and other difficult to develop drug targets, new progress in GPCR drug targets;
Topic 2: Pharmacology
Cancer pharmacology (cancer model/new drug target and signaling pathway/therapeutic mechanism/drug resistance mechanism/tumor microenvironment/precise oncology), cardiovascular pharmacology (vascular/cardiac/renal pharmacology/hypertension/diabetes and cardiovascular disease), cellular and molecular pharmacology (receptor transport/allosteric regulation/biased ligand/signal transduction/GPCR), behavioral pharmacology (substance use disorder/pain/neuropsychiatric disease), neuropharmacology (CNS receptor/transporter/channel/neurodegenerative disease), drug metabolism and disposal (pharmacokinetics/metabolic enzyme/transporter/drug interaction), toxicology (biochemistry/mechanism toxicology/hepatotoxicity/neurotoxicity/in vitro toxicology/inflammation and tissue damage), pharmacology education, health differences and policy advocacy;
Topic 3: Biopharmaceuticals
Drug discovery and development (AI driven drug design/drug repositioning/targeted delivery systems/drug target binding and biomarker research/virtual screening/high-throughput screening), translational and clinical pharmacology (clinical pharmacology/pharmacogenomics/therapeutic drug monitoring/precision medicine), gene editing and cell therapy, stem cell and regenerative medicine, synthetic biology and biomanufacturing engineering, biopharmaceutical and innovative drug research and development, modernization of traditional Chinese medicine and food medicine homology, precision medicine and diagnostic technology, application of artificial intelligence and robots in healthcare, brain computer interfaces and medical devices, biotechnology investment and industrialization.