Workshop 2026

Programm

10:00
Registrierung und Begrüßungskaffee
10:30
Begrüßungen:
Dr. Julia Wagle,
Prof. Dr. Stefan Endres
Session I: Mechanisms of the Ubiquitin System
10:35 – 10:50
Exploiting the degradative nature of the ubiquitin system
Prof. Dr. Florian Bassermann
Technische Universität München
11:00 – 11:15
Structural mechanisms of E3 ligases
Prof. Dr. Brenda Schulman
Max-Planck-Institut Biochemie, München
11:25 – 11:40
Mechanisms of substrate recognition
Sonja Lorenz
Max-Planck-Institut für Multidisziplinäre Wissenschaften, Göttingen
11:50 – 12:05
Examples of successful molecular glue development (e.g. estrogen receptor)
Prof. Dr. Nico Thomä
Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel
12:15 – 13:15
Mittagessen
13:15 – 13:30
The Zukunftscluster "ProxiDrugs" in the Rhein-Main region: Lessons learned since 2021
Prof. Dr. Ivan Đikić
Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
13:35 – 13:55
Panel round Targeted protein degradation – what will be the next breakthroughs?
Moderation: Prof. Dr. Florian Bassermann.
Panel: Prof. Dr. Alessio Ciulli, Prof. Dr. Ivan Đikić , Prof. Dr. Brenda Schulman, Prof. Dr. Elmar Wolf
Session II: Chemical Biology of Targeted Protein Degradation
14:00 – 14:15
PROTAC and Molecular Glue degrader design and mechanism
Prof. Dr. Alessio Ciulli
University of Dundee
14:25 – 14:40
PROTAC degraders - Targets
Prof. Dr. Elmar Wolf
Christian-Albrechts Universität zu Kiel
14:50 – 15:20
Kaffeepause
Session III: Getting PROTACs and Glues to the patient: The Challenges
15:20 – 15:35
Proximity Pharmacology
Prof. Dr. Stefan Knapp
Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
15:45 – 16:00
Advancing PROTACs and Glues to Application
N. N.
16:10 – 16:25
Degrader Development from the perspective of big pharma
Greg Hollingworth
Novartis, Basel/Cambridge
16:35 – 16:50
Keynote: The discovery of PROTAC
Dr. Raymond Deshaies
Amgen, USA
17:00
Schlusswort
Prof. Dr. Stefan Endres