2016 Showcase Presenters | Boulder Peptide Symposium

September 15-18, 2025

LIVE, In Person at the St. Julien Hotel in Boulder, Colorado
The only conference focused solely on the pharmaceutical development of peptide therapeutics.

2016 Showcase Presenters

2016 Showcase Presenters

Christian Becker
University of Vienna

Targeted innate immune stimulators as therapeutics

Katerina Leftheris
Stony Brook University/Vilya, Inc.

Targeting Peptides and Macrocycles as Drugs: Novel approaches on the Horizon

Connor Thomson
Sinopep

Real-world, achievable strategies to improve sustainability in GLP-1 peptide manufacturing (and why it might not matter)

Panel Discussion: Peptides as Radiopharmaceuticals
Murray Wan
Mariana Oncology

Peptide Radiopharmaceutical Panel

Robin Polt
The University of Arizona

Brain Penetrant Glycopeptide Drugs from Endogenous Neuropeptides

Robin Polt
The University of Arizona

Brain Penetrant Glycopeptide Drugs from Endogenous Neuropeptides

Nicolas Gilles
CEA

A snake peptide toxin for treatment of kidney diseases. From bench to bedside

Chemistry of Complex Peptides
Akshay Shah
Pinnacle Medicines

Enablement of Late-Stage Functionalization and High-Throughput Parallel Chemistry for Efficient Peptide Optimization

Chemistry of Complex Peptides
Cesar de la Fuente
University of Pennsylvania

AI for Antibiotic Discovery

Peptides in the Clinic
Kathy Miller
Indiana University

Peptide vaccines for prevention and treatment of cancer

Drug Delivery
Guizhi Zhu
University of Michigan

Engineer and deliver peptide-based proteolysis-targeting vaccines (PROTAX) for cancer immunotherapy

Ross Wang
Temple University

Fluorine-Displacement Reaction (FDR)-mediated Peptide Stapling to Interrogate Protein-Protein Interactions

Jamie Shah
Chem-Impex

Reagents, Relationships, and Resilience: What Family Business Can Teach Us About Peptide Innovation

Chemistry of Complex Peptides
Soren Ostergaard
Novo Nordisk A/S

Half-life extension of peptides using fatty acid derivatization; past, present and future opportunities

Daniela Kalafatovic
University of Rijeka

Using Generative AI to Fast Track Peptide Discovery

AI/Machine Learning with Peptides Workshop
Goran Mausa
University of Rijeka, Faculty of Engineering

AI/Machine Learning Workshop

Drug Delivery
Zhigao Niu
Novo Nordisk

Efforts to improve the SNAC-based formulations for oral peptide delivery

Nicolai Ree
Gubra

Experimental Validation of AI-Based Pipeline for De Novo Peptide Design

Stephane Roche
AdaptBio Therapeutics

ADAPT: An Emerging Platform of Antibody CDR-H3-based Scaffolds for the Discovery of Novel Classes of Protein-Protein Interaction Inhibitors

Lauren Cline
BPS

This is just a test

Chemistry of Complex Peptides
Tom Tucker
Merck and Co., Inc.

Discovery of the Highly Potent and Orally Bioavailable Cyclic Peptide PCSK9 Inhibitor MK-0616

Chemistry of Complex Peptides
Christian Gruber
Medical University of Vienna

Peptide-based approaches to GPCR drug discovery: novel κ-opioid receptor ligands for applications in inflammatory pain

Jeff Alberts
Eli Lilly and Company

The Journey of Bioanalytical Support for Peptides from Target of Interest to Post Market

Benyi Li
KANSAS UNIV MEDICAL CENTER

An AR protein degrader for prostate cancer therapy

Mandë Holford
Hunter College - CUNY

Killer Snails: Agents of Change and Innovation

Walden Bjørn-Yoshimoto
University of Copenhagen

Somatostatin receptor 4 activating conopeptides inspiring a new class of pain therapeutics


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