Koen Augustyns full professor

Koen Augustyns

Organisation of Scientific Symposia


  1. 3rd Johnson & Johnson Symposium on Combinatorial and Parallel Synthesis, Antwerp, Belgium (07/03/2002, Organizing committee member)
  2. Annual One-Day Meeting on Medicinal Chemistry of KVCV & SRC: “Lead profiling : Myth or Reality ?”, Gent, Belgium (26/11/2004, Co-chair)
  3. 4th Johnson & Johnson Symposium on Drug Discovery, Antwerp, Belgium (07-08/04/2005, Organizing committee member)
  4. 15th Noordwijkerhout-Camerino Symposium: “Trends in Drug Research”, Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands (08-13/05/2005, Session chair)
  5. Annual One-Day Meeting on Medicinal Chemistry of KVCV & SRC: “Targeting the Brain, Successes and Pitfalls”, Namur, Belgium (25/11/2005, Co-chair)
  6. Annual One-Day Meeting on Medicinal Chemistry of KVCV & SRC: “Personalized Medicine: New Opportunities for Drug Discovery”, Antwerp, Belgium (10/11/2006, Co-chair)
  7. 43e Rencontres Internationales de Chimie Thérapeutique : « Drug Discovery and Selection », Lille, France (04-06/07/2007, Organizing committee member and session chair)
  8. Annual One-Day Meeting on Medicinal Chemistry of KVCV & SRC: “New Drugs and Drug Candidates: Recent Achievements in Medicinal Chemistry”, Braine-l’Alleud, Belgium (26/10/2007, Co-chair)
  9. 3rd International Conference on Dipeptidyl Peptidases and Related Proteins, Antwerp, Belgium (23-25/04/2008, Scientific committee member)
  10. XXth EFMC International Symposium on Medicinal Chemistry, Vienna, Austria (31/08-04/09/2008, International scientific committee member and session chair)
  11. Annual One-Day Meeting on Medicinal Chemistry of KVCV & SRC: “Small molecules, antibodies and natural products: multiple faces of medicinal chemistry”, Leuven, Belgium (07/11/2008, Co-chair)
  12. Annual One-Day Meeting on Medicinal Chemistry of KVCV & SRC: “Does size matter? Beyond small molecule therapeutics: challenges and success stories”, Brussels, Belgium (06/11/2009, Co-chair)
  13. Joint Meeting of the Dutch and Belgian Medicinal Chemistry Societies: “Crossing decades and borders in medicinal chemistry”, Eindhoven, The Netherlands (19/03/2010, Co-chair)
  14. XXIth EFMC International Symposium on Medicinal Chemistry, Brussels, Belgium (05-10/09/2010, Co-chair)
  15. 241st meeting of the American Chemical Society: “Drug-Target Residence Time”, Anaheim, USA (27-31/03/2011, Session chair)
  16. Annual One-Day Meeting on Medicinal Chemistry of KVCV & SRC: “Drug Design against Emerging Targets: Opportunities and Challenges”, Gent, Belgium (25/11/2011, Co-chair)
  17. Kekulé-cycle: “Doorbraken in Farmaceutische R&D”, Antwerp, Belgium (27/03/2012, Session chair)
  18. XXIIth EFMC International Symposium on Medicinal Chemistry, Berlin, Germany (02-06/09/2012, International organizing committee member)
  19. Annual One-Day Meeting on Medicinal Chemistry of KVCV & SRC: “From Rapid Dissociation to Irreversible Inhibition – Optimisation of Drug-Target Residence Time”, Liège, Belgium (30/11/2012, Co-chair)
  20. Frontiers in Medicinal Chemistry 2013, San Francisco, USA (23-26/06/2013, International organizing committee member)
  21. Annual One-Day Meeting on Medicinal Chemistry of KVCV & SRC: “Constrained Peptides and Macrocycles – New Opportunities for Drug Discovery”, Beerse, Belgium (22/11/2013, Co-chair)
  22. Kekulé-cycle: “Pushing back frontiers in Life Sciences”, Antwerp, Belgium (18/03/2014, Session chair
  23. 1st International Congress: from Drug Discovery to Drug Delivery, Athens, Greece (13-15/11/2014, International scientific committee member)
  24. Annual One-Day Meeting on Medicinal Chemistry of KVCV & SRC: “New Vistas in GPCR Research: the Dawn of an Exciting Drug Discovery Era?”, UCB, Braine-l’Alleud, Belgium (21/11/2014, Co-chair)
  25. Frontiers in Medicinal Chemistry 2015, Antwerp, Belgium (14-18/09/2015, International organizing committee chair)
  26. 10th AFMC International Medicinal Chemistry Symposium (AIMECS2015): “Infectious Diseases”, Jeju, South-Korea (18-21/10/2015, Session chair)
  27. 6th EFMC International Symposium on Advances in Synthetic and Medicinal Chemistry (EFMC-ASMC), Rehovot, Israel (15-18/11/2015, International organizing committee chair)
  28. XXIVth EFMC International Symposium on Medicinal Chemistry (EFMC-ISMC 2016), Manchester, UK (28/08-01/09/2016, International organizing committee member)
  29. Annual One-Day Meeting on Medicinal Chemistry of KVCV & SRC: “PET & Imaging : From Chemistry Lab to Clinical Applications”, Mont-Saint-Guibert, Belgium (18/11/2016, Co-chair)
  30. ACSMEDI-EFMC Medicinal Chemistry Frontiers 2017, Philadelphia, USA (25-28/06/2017, International organizing committee member and session chair)
  31. 11th AFMC International Medicinal Chemistry Symposium (AIMECS2017): “Computer-assisted Drug Discovery”, Melbourne, Australia (23-26/07/2017, Session chair)
  32. 7th EFMC International Symposium on Advances in Synthetic and Medicinal Chemistry (EFMC-ASMC), Vienna, Austria (27-31/08/2017, International organizing committee member and session chair)
  33. Annual One-Day Meeting on Medicinal Chemistry of KVCV & SRC: “The Many Pharmacotherapeutic Faces of Nucleosides and Oligonucleotides”, Leuven, Belgium (01/12/2017, Co-chair)
  34. Annual One-Day Meeting on Medicinal Chemistry of KVCV & SRC: “New Avenues in Kinase Drug Discovery: a Bright Future?”, Namur, Belgium (23/11/2018, Co-chair)
  35. Annual One-Day Meeting on Medicinal Chemistry of KVCV & SRC: “Peptide Drug Discovery: a Niche Area?”, Brussels, Belgium (22/11/2019, Co-chair)
  36. Kekulé-cycle XVIII: “Immunity and responses”, online, Antwerp, Belgium (24/11/2020, Session chair)
  37. XXVIth EFMC International Symposium on Medicinal Chemistry (EFMC-ISMC) “Highlights of Medicinal Chemistry”, online (29/08-02/09/2021, Session chair)
  38. Annual One-Day Meeting on Medicinal Chemistry of KVCV & SRC: “Medicinal Chemistry in Belgium: Innovation and Success Stories”, Liège, Belgium (19/11/2021, Co-chair)
  39. XXVIIth EFMC International Symposium on Medicinal Chemistry (EFMC-ISMC), Nice, France (04-08/08/2022, International scientific committee member)
  40. Kekulé-cycle XIX “Health, inside-out”, Antwerp, Belgium (22/03/2022, Session chair)
  41. Annual One-Day Meeting on Medicinal Chemistry of KVCV & SRC: “Medicinal Chemistry 2.0: Emerging Trends Enabling Drug Discovery of the Future”, Brussels, Belgium (08/12/2023, Co-chair)