| Date & Time | 26-30 January 2026 |
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| Location | Olomouc, Czech Republic |
The 9ADD workshop (January 26–30, 2026) is an international hybrid event hosted by Palacký University Olomouc that focuses on modern in silico approaches to drug design, combining lectures and hands-on tutorials in structure-based and ligand-based drug discovery, including molecular docking, molecular dynamics, pharmacophores, QSAR, de novo design, and deep learning, delivered by leading experts from academia and industry.
The workshop is focused on using in silico tools and approaches in drug design. We cover both structure-based drug design (molecular docking, molecular dynamics, structural bioinformatics tools) and ligand-based drug design (QSAR, pharmacophores, deep learning) with lectures and on-hand tutorials.
In addition to the educational program, the workshop includes an excursion to IMTM facilities and features a competitive challenge in which participants – working individually or in teams – apply computational methods to prioritise compounds against a real biological target from a blind dataset, aiming to maximise true active hit discovery within a limited time. The best-performing predictions will be ranked on a leaderboard, rewarded with prizes, and considered for prospective compound purchasing and experimental validation, thereby directly linking computational modelling with real-world drug discovery outcomes.
More info about the workshop here.
The meeting will be hybrid. Lectures and tutorial files will be available online, but the on-hand tutorials will be available only on-site.
The 9ADD workshop is a part of the EATRIS Czech Republic Spotlight Programme.
