KNCV Focus Session: Photopharmacology on the interface of Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry

Chair: Rutger Folmer
Speakers: Wiktor Szymanski (RUG), Yangzhi Cao (VU), Xavier Gómez-Santacana

Photopharmacology makes use of photoswitchable ligands that change conformation upon activation by light. This reversable process 
allows unprecedented control of ligand-protein interaction and requires careful tuning of both the pharmacological properties as well 
as the photochemical behaviour of the designed molecules.