Chemistry for Health

Theme co-ordinator: Chris Hill, Schering-Plough, UK

Bioinorganic Toxicity, Poison or Cure 

Convener: John Duffus (Edin Tox, Edinburgh, UK); Keynote Speaker: Peter Sadler (Warwick, UK)

Chemistry of the Cell 

Convener: Rudolf Allemann (Cardiff, UK); Keynote Speakers: Vern Schramm (Albert Einstein College), Craig Townsend (Johns Hopkins, USA), Manfred Reetz (MPI, Germany), David Christianson (Pennsylvania, USA)

Chemistry in the Food Chain and Health 

Convener: Richard Frazier (Reading, UK); Keynote Speakers: Ian Norton (Birmingham, UK), R A Rastall (Reading, UK)

Chemistry for Solving Biological Problems 

Convener: Emma Wilson (RSC, UK); Keynote Speakers: Laurence Hurley (Arizona, USA), Stephen Neidle, (London, UK), Tarun Kapoor (Rockefeller University, USA), Tom Muir (Rockefeller University, USA) 

DNA-Based Electrochemical Devices and Biosensors 

Convener: Richard Bowater (East Anglia, UK); Keynote Speakers: (Kevin Plaxco, Santa Barbara, USA), Thomas Carell (Munich, Germany)

Heterocyclic Chemistry: Synthesis, Chemical Biology, and Drug Discovery 

Conveners: Keith Jones (Institute of Cancer Research, UK), Colin Suckling (Strathclyde, UK); Keynote Speakers: Tom Brown (Southampton, UK), Prem Man Singh Chauhan (Lucknow, India), John A. Robinson, (Zurich, Switzerland) and Jack Taunton, (California, USA)

Natural Products 

Convener: Marcel Jaspars (Aberdeen, UK); Keynote Speakers: Christian Hertweck, (Jena, Germany), Wilfred van der Donk, (Illinois, USA), Jon Clardy, (Harvard, USA)

Oxygen Activation and Sensing by Iron in Biology 

Convener: John Reglinski (Strathclyde, UK); Keynote Speakers: Paul R Ortiz de Montellano (California, USA), Lawrence Que, Jr., (Minnesota, USA)

Peptides as Contrast Imaging Agents for MRI and PET 

Convener: Brian Austen (St George's, London, UK)

The Chemistry-Biology Interface: Drug Targets and Diagnostics 

Conveners: Harpal Minhas, Niamh O'Connor, Michael Smith (RSC, UK); Keynote Speakers: Dana Spence, Michael Shuler, Larry J Kricka, Thomas Kodadek