October 2025 saw Domainex attend Drug Discovery 2025 Liverpool, hosted by ELRIG, the leading drug discovery conference throughout Europe. Our Domainex employees were heavily involved in all aspects of the conference; from volunteering as Red Shirts, delivering talks and presenting posters and playing an active role in “Network like a Boss”, we were happy to be immersed whilst looking ahead to Drug Discovery 2026!
Domainex is very proud of our apprenticeship and industrial placement students, and we were delighted to see our students who have progressed or are currently working through the schemes representing Domainex as Red Shirts at the event. Holly Madden, herself a Liverpudlian, gave a talk to year 9’s from local schools about her exciting journey into science whilst Rose Bigley and Chloe Eeles assisted with chairing sessions and helping delegates navigate their way around the conference.
Poppy Wood, our returning Industrial Placement Student and now a full-time employee, presented during the flash talk presentations as well as the Mini Drug Discovery (DD) Conference. This was an event first for ELRIG and saw a mini conference designed especially for Early Career Professionals (ECPs), the day before the main conference took place.
Mini DD was hosted and organised by the ELRIG ECP workgroup, and they did not stop there. They hosted talks, panel discussions and a Network Like a Boss session (NLAB). This was a networking session which our own “bosses”, Laura Lemel and Hayley French, were involved with. They reported it to be a “rewarding” and “interesting session to hear the questions, views and concerns of current ECPs”.
Whilst our Red shirts were helping delegates and our bosses guiding ECPs, Alicia Overall, a member of the ECP workgroup, was busy interviewing speakers, members and delegates about their ELRIG experience with the help of Michelle Ricketts (Codon Communications), Emily Norman and Gayshini Kebla (ELRIG).
Our impact and presence extended across all of the poster sessions with Domainex presenting posters displaying our techniques and technologies:
- Molecular Matchmakers: Finding the Perfect Glue, Phillip Rawlins- Group Leader
- Development of C5aR1 Negative Allosteric Modulators with Potential Benefits for Neuroinflammation, Kamini Magon – Senior Scientist II
- Using Direct-to-Biology in Spectral Shift-PoLiPa Platform to Enable Fast Fragment Follow-Up for Adenosine A2a Antagonists, Holly Madden and Laura Lemel – Scientist and Senior Scientist II
- Fast-Tracking PROTAC® Discovery using Direct-to-Biology: Utilising Biophysical and Cellular Assays to Target Aurora Kinase A, Poppy wood – Scientist
- Unlocking RNA as a Drug Target: Novel Hit Discovery Strategies for Small Molecule Binders, Nicholas Bland and Rose Bigley – Group Lead and Apprentice
Conveying and discussing our science were Chris Miller and Ray Boffey from our Business Development team.
If you spoke to one our team members, or would like to hear more about how Domainex can work with you, please reach out to enquiries@domainex.co.uk
We would lastly like to give our thanks to ELRIG, for a friendly, insightful and integral event to the drug discovery calendar.
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