Welcome
Welcome to the website of the 17th annual meeting for structural biologists working in the pharmaceutical industry which took place Sun 8 - Tue 10 November 2009 in Basel. The record participation of 150 delegates at PSDI2009 confirmed again that PSDI conference is considered a scientifically important event within our community.
The overview of the conference program you can still find here. As usual most talks originated from the pharmaceutical industry and addressed the application of biostructural technologies in drug discovery projects and the technologies used.
The PSDI2009 organizing committee is delighted to announce the host of next years PSDI2010 conference, which is the Diamond Light Source.
Kind regards,
the PSDI2009 organizing committee
Armin Ruf, David Banner, Jörg Benz, and Michael Hennig (F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd)
PSDI2009 Conference Photograph taken November 10th at Hilton Basel (download high resolution jpeg)
Some presenters from the program:
Transporters and Ion channels: Jeoffrey Chang (SCRIPPS), Raimund Dutzler (University Zürich), Marc Baldus (University Utrecht)
Therapeutic antibodies: Chris Wiesmann (Genentech)
Drug discovery projects: Alex Pautsch (Boehringer Ingelheim), Steffen Reedtz-Runge (Novo Nordisc), David Brown (Pfizer), Judit Debreczeni (AstraZeneca), Bernd Kuhn (Roche), Herman Schreuder (Sanofi-Aventis)
Fragment Screening / Bio-physics / Bio-NMR: Matthias Frech (Merck Serono), Stefan Geschwindner (AstraZeneca)
New structures / protein engineering for crystallization: Roman Hillig (Bayer Schering), Anne Cleasby (Astex)
Venue Details
The Hilton Basel city center has excellent conference facilities, with a good lecture hall surrounded by comfortable exhibition and socializing space.
Hilton Basel Hotel
Aeschengraben 31
Basel
4002
Switzerland
Directions
The hotel is a 2-minute walk from the central Basel SBB train station which is very well connected to the European ICE/TGV train net.
From EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg take the bus to the City Airport Terminal, in Basel SBB train station.
From Frankfurt or Zürich airports take the train to Basel SBB.
From Airport Baden-Baden/Karlsruhe (Ryanair) take Bus or Taxi to Baden-Baden train station and there train to Basel SBB. By car follow these directions.