IV POL-OPENSCREEN Workshop – Summary

The IV POL-OPENSCREEN National Library of Chemical Compounds Workshop took place on December 3 and 4, 2024. This time, the co-organizer of the Workshops was the Faculty of Chemistry of the Lodz University of Technology, and the meeting place was the Alchemium building on the Lodz University of Technology campus, at 114 Żeromskiego Street.

The 4th Workshop was attended by chemists, biologists and pharmacologists interested in research on new bioactive compounds from several Polish academic institutions: Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Warsaw University of Technology, Polish Academy of Sciences Institutes, University of Warsaw, Lodz University of Technology, Centre of Molecular and Macromolecular Studies of Polish Academy of Sciences, Medical University of Lublin, Medical University of Lodz, Medical University of Gdańsk, University of Lodz, Jagiellonian University and BioMedChem Doctoral School of the University of Lodz and Lodz Institutes of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

During the workshop 20 presentations were given on research on new drugs discovery and other bioactive compounds. Among the presenters was also a representative of the pharmaceutical industry Dr. Roman Błaszczyk – Head of Medicinal Chemistry, Molecure S.A.

Victoria Mora from EU-OPENSCREEN, an European consortium of which the POL-OPENSCREEN is a part, presented the EU-OPENSCREEN ERIC consortium. Dr. Geert Daudey and Dr. Inés Palacios presented the BioFarma and the research group at the University of Santiago de Compostela which is a Spanish partner institution of EU-OPENSCREEN.

NLCC accepts chemical compounds synthesized in national laboratories (universities, institutes, research laboratories, etc.). Compounds deposited in the Library are bioprofiled free of charge and then made available for both Polish and foreign entities, for biological screening and other scientific research.

For participants a tour was organized to familiarize themselves with infrastructure NLCC infrastructure. The workshop was concluded with a discussion on current conditions and status of financing science in Poland. The role of the National Library of Chemical Compounds in supporting the community of researchers interested in using the KBZCh infrastructure was emphasized, and more broadly, its importance in supporting research in Poland.