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ADDC colloquia through the years

Each colloquium brings academic drug discovery centers, trainees, and industry partners together to share science and solve the problems that slow new therapies down.

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ADDC 2027 Colloquium · April 12–14, 2027

UCSF Mission Bay Conference Center, San Francisco. Early registration is open, and abstracts are due January 31.

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Previous Colloquia

  1. 2025St. Louis
    Most recent

    ADDC 2025 Colloquium

    📅 October 28–29, 2025📍 Eric P. Newman Education Center, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO

    Crossing gateways and navigating new terrain: moving discoveries into the translational space so they can reach patients.

    156 attendees
    57 abstracts submitted
    Networking reception at BioGenerator Labs
    2025 Colloquium page
  2. 2024Arlington

    3rd ASPET/ADDC Academic Drug Discovery Colloquium

    📅 May 19–20, 2024📍 Arlington, VA

    Introducing the next generation of drug hunters.

    178 attendees
    143 abstracts submitted
    107 posters presented

    Held jointly with the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET) as part of the ASPET 2024 Annual Meeting.

    2024 event details
  3. 2019Boston

    Better Leads, Better Drugs: Innovations in Screening Libraries

    📅 May 8–9, 2019📍 Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

    A screen is only as good as the molecules that go into it.

    118 attendees

    A day and a half on new technologies and computational tools for building virtual, high-throughput and fragment-based screening libraries that deliver higher quality leads, plus one-on-one partnering meetings and an exhibition.

  4. 2017Bethesda

    2nd ASPET/ADDC Academic Drug Discovery Colloquium

    📅 October 12–13, 2017📍 Natcher Conference Center, NIH, Bethesda, MD

    Fueling Innovation: Public Programs Driving Drug Discovery.

    42 posters
    17 funding programs at partnering tables

    How to fund academic drug discovery: keynotes by Carlos Zarate (NIMH) and Bryan Roth (UNC), plus partnering meetings with program directors from NIH, Wellcome Trust, GSK, the European Lead Factory and CPRIT. Sponsors included MilliporeSigma, Eli Lilly, Pfizer, Janssen and Waters.

  5. 2016San Diego

    1st ASPET/ADDC Colloquium: Drug Discovery in Academia

    📅 April 6–7, 2016📍 San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, CA

    Recent Successes and Emerging Opportunities.

    24 posters

    The first joint colloquium with ASPET, held right after Experimental Biology 2016: small-molecule success stories, rare and neglected diseases, and government funding, with a keynote by Mike Poole (Gates Foundation) and a day of pharma–academic partnering meetings. Sponsors included MilliporeSigma, Merck, CDD Vault, Waters, Charles River, Teva and Adis Insight.

  6. 2014Cambridge
    Workshop

    Addressing Irreproducibility in Target Validation

    📅 October 23, 2014📍 Cambridge, MA

    A one-day conference co-hosted with the editors of the NIH Assay Guidance Manual, bringing industry, academic, government and journal scientists together on practical fixes for irreproducible preclinical research. It was covered in Nature Reviews Drug Discovery.

  7. 2013Nashville
    First conference

    ADDC 2013 Drug Discovery Conference

    📅 October 9–11, 2013📍 Nashville, TN

    ADDC's first conference, a year after the consortium formed: academic drug discovery centers showcased their programs across Science, Business Development and Education/Career tracks, with partnering sessions alongside industry and CROs.

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