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@stephanhacker2.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 8:47 AM

The Covalent Modulation in Drug Discovery Conference #CovModDrugDiscov was an amazing meeting.

my.bps.ac.uk/events/detai...

I am very happy that I was invited to present some of our most recent work.

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@stephanhacker2.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 3:30 PM

A true firework of covalent drug discovery to close out the Covalent Modulation in Drug Discovery Conference #CovModDrugDiscov!

Ed Tate presented a variety of exciting projects of his group.

pubs.acs.org/jacsat/artic...

#CovalentInhibitor #DrugDiscovery #ChemSky #ChemBio #Science

@stephanhacker2.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 3:20 PM

Interesting talk by Michael Bodnarchuk from @astra-zeneca.bsky.social at #CovModDrugDiscov.

He talked about the use of computational tools to discover covalent, brain-penetrant KRAS G12C inhibitors.

#CovalentInhibitor #DrugDiscovery #ChemSky #ChemBio #Science

@stephanhacker2.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 1:37 PM

Interesting talk by Chloe Oxford from GSK at #CovModDrugDiscov.

She talked about a MALDI-TOF-MS-based assay to characterize the binding of #CovalentInhibitors to challenging proteins with resolution of the binding site.

#DrugDiscovery #ChemBio #ChemSky #Science

@stephanhacker2.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 11:21 AM

Interesting talk by Federica Raguseo at #CovModDrugDiscov.

She talked about a phenotype-first approach to covalent drug discovery on the example of TYMS.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

#CovalentInhibitor #DrugDiscovery #ChemSky #ChemBio #Science
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@stephanhacker2.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 10:52 AM

Exciting talk by @meganwright.bsky.social at #CovModDrugDiscov.

She talked about new chemical methods to make libraries of covalent compounds and using them in MS-based and phenotypic screens.

pubs.rsc.org/cb/article/7...

#DrugDiscovery #ChemSky #ChemBio #Science
@britpharmsoc.bsky.social

@stephanhacker2.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 10:08 AM

Interesting talk by Darrin McKenzie at #CovModDrugDiscov.

He talked about, how they set up an automated platform to study protein expression levels and cysteine engagement in living cells.

#CovalentInhibitor #DrugDiscovery #ChemBio #ChemSky #ChemicalProteomics #Science

@stephanhacker2.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 9:46 AM

Exciting talk by William McCarthy at #CovModDrugDiscov.

He talked about their amazing capacities at the Francis Crick Institute for #chemoproteomic profiling of cysteines. Great insights into the use of #MachineLearning to predict more selective compounds. (1/2)

chemrxiv.org/doi/full/10....

@stephanhacker2.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 9:15 AM

The 2nd day of #CovModDrugDiscov gets on the way with an inspiring talk by Steven Gygi.

He talked about the power of TMT technologies for multiplexing to arrive at high-throughput residue-specific chemoproteomics.

#CovalentInhibitor #DrugDiscovery #ChemSky #ChemBio #ChemicalProteomics #Science

@stephanhacker2.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 3:54 PM

The first day of #CovModDrugDiscov comes to an end with an exciting talk by @mbogyo.bsky.social.

He talked about covalent probes to visualize bacterial infections and tumors. Great to see them take this concept to phase 3 studies for fluorescence-guided surgery.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

@stephanhacker2.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 3:15 PM

Inspiring talk by Scott Lovell at #CovModDrugDiscov.

He talked about the development of macrocyclic #peptides into covalent inhibitors targeting lysines using SuFEx chemistry.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

#DrugDiscovery #ChemSky #ChemBio #Science
@britpharmsoc.bsky.social

@stephanhacker2.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 2:51 PM

Interesting talk by @ljwalport.bsky.social at #CovModDrugDiscov.

She talked about the discovery of potent peptide-based #CovalentInhibitors using mRNA display.

www.nature.com/articles/s42...

#mRNA #RNA #DrugDiscovery #ChemBio #ChemSky #Science
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@stephanhacker2.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 1:50 PM

Interesting talk by Madeeha Ali at #CovModDrugDiscov.

She talked about her exciting work on studying the kinetics of #CovalentInhibitors.

bpspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#DrugDiscovery #Kinetics #ChemSky #ChemBio

@stephanhacker2.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 1:20 PM

Great talk by David Heppner (@heppnerd.bsky.social) at #CovModDrugDiscov.

He gave exciting insights into rigorously characterizing #CovalentInhibitors using crystal structures and kinetics.

pubs.acs.org/abmcb8/artic...

#DrugDiscovery #ChemSky #ChemBio #Science

@stephanhacker2.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 12:58 PM

Insightful talk by Matthias Gehringer at #CovModDrugDiscov.

He gave great insights into his group's work on making new kinases amenable to covalent drug discovery at cysteine and beyond.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

#CovalentInhibitor #DrugDiscovery #ChemSky #ChemBio #Science #Kinase

@stephanhacker2.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 12:52 PM

We had an amazing poster session at #CovModDrugDiscov! I learned a lot about new warheads, covalent binder optimization and methods to measure target engagement.

Thank you to all presenters for sharing their amazing science.

#DrugDiscovery #ChemSky #ChemBio #Science
@britpharmsoc.bsky.social

@stephanhacker2.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 10:21 AM

Interesting talk by Jonathan Pettinger from GSK at #CovModDrugDiscov.

He talked about the power of direct-to-biology (D2B) approaches for fast SAR studies of #CovalentInhibitors.

chemrxiv.org/doi/10.26434...

#D2B #DirectToBiology #DrugDiscovery #ChemBio #ChemSky #Science

@stephanhacker2.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 9:51 AM

#CovModDrugDiscov continues with an interesting talk by Mandy Ferdinand from Cancer Research Horizons.

She talked about methods to characterize covalent hits with a special focus on binding kinetics.

#CovalentInhibitor #DrugDiscovery #ChemSky #ChemBio #Science

@stephanhacker2.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 9:22 AM

The Covalent Modulation in Drug Discovery Conference #CovModDrugDiscov is off to a great start with an insightful talk by Matt Bilyard from Roche.

He talked about how they select targets for covalent drug discovery and then find and develop covalent binders.

#CovalentInhibitor #ChemBio #ChemSky