Joint with: The Ubiquitin Family in Biology and Disease
Proximity Based Biology and Therapeutics: Targeted Protein Degradation and Beyond

Feb 23–26, 2026 | Fairmont Banff Springs, Banff, AB, Canada
Scientific Organizers: Neil Bence, Cheryl Arrowsmith and Amit Choudhary

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Feb 23–26, 2026 | Fairmont Banff Springs, Banff, AB, Canada
Scientific Organizers: Neil Bence, Cheryl Arrowsmith and Amit Choudhary

Supported by the  Directors' Fund

***Meeting program subject to change.

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Monday, February 23, 2026
Registration
4:00–8:00 PM
Welcome Mixer
6:00–8:00 PM
Tuesday, February 24, 2026
Breakfast
7:00–8:00 AM
Welcome and Keynote Address
8:00–9:00 AM
Speaker to be Announced
Transformation of Drug Discovery and Induced Proximity through AI/ML
9:00–11:15 AM
Speaker to be Announced
Ning Zheng, University of Washington
AI Accelerated Virtual Screening for Novel Ligands
Speaker to be Announced
Short Talk(s) Chosen from Abstracts
Coffee Break
9:30–9:50 AM
Poster Setup
11:15–1:00 PM
On Own for Lunch
11:15–5:00 PM
Poster Viewing
1:00–10:00 PM
Symposia Spotlight: Emerging Technologies and Approaches in Proximity Induction
2:30–4:30 PM
Coffee Available
4:30–5:00 PM
Novel Induced Proximity based Approaches
5:00–7:00 PM
Amit Choudhary, Harvard Medical School
Proximity-Inducing Molecules for Protein Editing
Gerald R. Crabtree, Stanford University
Transcriptional Chemical Inducers of Proximity
Elena De Vita, Queen Mary University of London
Targeted Protein Dephosphorylation vial PHOSTACs
Short Talk(s) Chosen from Abstracts
Social Hour with Dinner
7:00–8:00 PM
Posters
7:30–10:00 PM
Wednesday, February 25, 2026
Breakfast
7:00–8:00 AM
Leveraging Novel Protein Degradation Machinery for Next Generation Protein Degraders
8:00–11:00 AM
Cheryl Arrowsmith, University of Toronto
Increasing the Repertoire of Chemically Recruitable E3 Ligases for Targeted Protein Degradation
Asad Taherbhoy, Foghorn Therapeutics
Novel Strategies of Targeting the Transcriptional Machinery for Degradation
Speaker to be Announced
Daniel K Nomura, University of California, Berkeley
Enabling Novel Ligases
Short Talk(s) Chosen from Abstracts
Coffee Break
9:00–9:20 AM
Poster Setup
11:00–1:00 PM
On Own for Lunch
11:00–5:00 PM
Poster Viewing
1:00–10:00 PM
Career Roundtable
3:00–4:30 PM
Coffee Available
4:30–5:00 PM
Induced Proximity to Modulate Protein Complexes
5:00–7:00 PM
Katherine Kayser-Bricker, Halda Therapeutics
Regulated Induced Proximity Targeting Chimeras (RIPTACs)
Michelle R. Arkin, University of California, San Francisco
Utilization of Stabilizers of Protein-Protein Interactions
Jian Jin, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
New Approaches to Target Undruggable Proteins
Short Talk(s) Chosen from Abstracts
Social Hour with Dinner
7:00–8:00 PM
Posters
7:30–10:00 PM
Thursday, February 26, 2026
Breakfast
7:00–8:00 AM
Clinical Progress in Induced Proximity Approaches
8:00–11:00 AM
Neil Bence, Bristol Myers Squibb
BMS Protein Degrader from Discovery to Clinical Development
Speaker to be Announced
Speaker to be Announced
Speaker to be Announced
Short Talk(s) Chosen from Abstracts
Coffee Break
9:00–9:20 AM
On Own for Lunch
11:00–5:00 PM
Panel Discussion: Driving Innovation: From Concept to Company, how to Start a Company around a New Idea
2:30–4:30 PM
Coffee Available
4:30–5:00 PM
Enabling Discovery and Development of Novel Induced Proximity Molecules and Glues
5:00–6:45 PM
Georg E. Winter, CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine
Novel Glue Discovery via Isogenic Morphological Profiling
Alessio Ciulli, University of Dundee, School of Life Sciences
Expanding the Target Space of Protein Degraders
Speaker to be Announced
Short Talk(s) Chosen from Abstracts
Meeting Wrap-Up: Outcomes and Future Directions
6:45–7:00 PM
Social Hour with Dinner
7:00–8:00 PM
Entertainment
8:00–11:00 PM
Cash Bar
8:00–11:00 PM
Friday, February 27, 2026
Departure
12:00–11:59 PM

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