Chair: Bauke Albada (WUR)
Speakers: Wiktor Szymanski (RUG), Yangzhi Cao (VU), Xavier Gómez-Santacana (Institute for Advanced Chemistry of Catalonia
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.