Peptide Therapeutics Forum 2025

Welcome to the website of the Peptide Therapeutics Forum 2025, which took place on June 5-6, 2025 at the Biozentrum Basel. The presentations highlighted important new insights regarding the drug discovery of peptides including examples for successful development candidates. The forum disseminated information on latest news in the broad field of therapeutic peptides and enables networking of interested parties from academia and industries.

Best Short Talk and Best Poster Prizes

The best short talks were honored with the SCS Best Short Talk award:

Moritz List, University of Leipzig
«Cytosolic delivery of therapeutic peptides based on receptor-mediated endocytosis»

Stephanie Vogt, University of Basel
«Development of Next-Generation Compstatin Analogs with Enhanced Target Residence Time Enables New Applications»

The two best poster presentations were honored with the Best Poster Award by ChemBioChem and ChemMedChem by Chemistry Europe:

Aliénor Jeandin, University of Zurich
«Exploring microproteins through chemical protein synthesis: KRASIM as KRAS interaction partner»

Dennis Freisem, University of Ulm
«Discovery of an endogenous type-I Interferon inhibiting peptide»

Speakers

Prof. Ines Neundorf, University of Köln

Prof. Ines Neundorf
University of Köln

Prof. Christian Heinis, EPFL
Prof. Jeffrey Bode, ETH Zurich
Dr. Michael Wagner, Dewpoint

Dr. Michael Wagner
Dewpoint Therapeutics

Prof.Yftah Tal Gan, University of Nevada

Prof. Yftah Tal-Gan
University of Nevada

Dr. Rami Hannoush, Versant Ventures

Dr. Rami Hannoush
Versant Ventures

Dr. Ilke Ugur Marion, Meddenvo Drug Design

Dr. Ilke Ugur Marion
Meddenvo Drug Design

Dr. Michael Lo, Merck
Dr. Markus Weingarth, Utrecht University

Dr. Markus Weingarth
Utrecht University

Dr. Alexey Karpov, Novartis
Kazuhiko Nakano, Chugai Pharmabody Research

Dr. Kazuhiko Nakano
Chugai Pharmabody Research PTE. Ltd.

Tim Kramer, Cordenpharma

Dr. Tim Kramer
Cordenpharma

Dr. Thomas Reiner, Evergreen Theragnostics

Dr. Thomas Reiner
Evergreen Theragnostics

Pictures sources: official websites of the invited speakers (see links)

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