Speakers

Plenary Speakers

Corinna S. Schindler

Corinna S. Schindler

Title: Azetidines, Azetines, and Oxetanes: New Cycloadditions of Imines and Carbonyls

University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Danielle Schultz

Danielle Schultz

Title: Taming the unnatural: advancing peptide drug discovery and development at MSD

Department of Process Research & Development, Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway,New Jersey, United States

David J. Procter

David J. Procter

Title: From sulfonium salts to samarium catalysis: New radical chemistry for synthesis

Department of Chemistry, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

Jianwei Sun

Jianwei Sun

Title: Development of Privileged Spirocycles for Asymmetric Synthesis

Department of Chemistry, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, China

Magnus

Magnus Rueping

Title: Expanding the Synthesis through Rueping Synthetic Toolbox for Heterocycle Sustainable Catalysis

Associate Director of the KAUST Catalysis Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, (KAUST), Saudi Arabia

Michael P. Doyle

Michael P. Doyle

Title: The Synthesis and Amazing Versatility of 1,2,3-Triazine 1Oxides. New Templates for Heterocycle Synthesis

Department of Chemistry, The University of Texas, San Antonio, U.S.A.

Mingji Dai

Mingji Dai

Title: Chemistry Innovation and Biological Discovery through Natural Product Total Synthesis

Department of Chemistry, Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA

Shigehiro Yamaguchi

Shigehiro Yamaguchi

Title: Tailored Heterocyclic π-Systems for Advanced Fluorescence Imaging

Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules and Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Furo, Chikusa, Nagoya JAPAN

Teresa M. V. D. Pinho e Melo

Teresa M. V. D. Pinho e Melo

Title: New Synthetic Strategies for Tetrapyrrolic Macrocycles: Toward Improved Cancer Photodynamic Therapy and Imaging

University of Coimbra, Coimbra Chemistry Centre, Institute of Molecular Science and Department of Chemistry (CQC-IMS), Coimbra, Portugal

Teresa M. V. D. Pinho e Melo

2026 E. C. Taylor Senior Award

To be announced

Teresa M. V. D. Pinho e Melo

2026 A. R. Katritzky Junior Award

To be announced

Teresa M. V. D. Pinho e Melo

2026 Industrial Award

To be announced

Invited Speakers

Alfonso Carlos Valdés Gómez

Alfonso Carlos Valdés Gómez

Title: Creating Structural Diversity and Complexity via Carboborylation of Sulfonylhydrazones

Universidad de Oviedo, Facultad de Química / Departamento de Química Orgánica e Inorgánica, Spain

Arlene G. Corrêa

Arlene G. Corrêa

Title: Greener synthesis of five-membered N-heterocycles

Federal University of São Carlos, Department of Chemistry, Centre of Excellence for Research in Sustainable Chemistry, Brazil

Eder João Lenardão

Eder João Lenardão

Title: Synthesis of Chalcogen-Functionalized Heterocycles

Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Centro de Ciências Químicas, Farmacêuticas e de Alimentos, Campus Universitário do Capão do Leão Capão do Leão, RS – Brazil

Georg Manolikakes

Georg Manolikakes

Title: Stereoselective Synthesis of Complex Three-Dimensional Heterocycles from Simple Enamide Building Blocks

Rhineland-Palatinate Technical University (RPTU), Department of Chemistry, Kaiserslautern-Landau, Germany

Ignacio Carrera Garese

Ignacio Carrera Garese

Title: Iboga Alkaloids and Inspired Isoquinuclidines: Semi-synthetic Approaches, Reactivity, and Biocatalytic Strategies

Department of Organic Chemistry, Facultad de Química, Universidad de la República, Montevide, Uruguay

Mario Waser

Mario Waser

Title: Chiral Isochalcogenourea Lewis Base Organocatalysis

Johannes Kepler University Linz, Institute of Organic Chemistry, Altenbergerstrasse, Linz, Austria

Oleg V. Larionov

Oleg V. Larionov

Title: New catalytic methods for efficient organic synthesis

Department of Chemistry, The University of Texas at San Antonio, One UTSA Circle, San Antonio, Texas, USA

Parthasarathi Das

Parthasarathi Das

Title: Expanding Discovery Chemistry Toolbox: From Concept to Practice

Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Indian Institute of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad, Dhanbad-826004, India

Rene M. Koenigs

Rene M. Koenigs

Title: Photochemistry as a tool for reaction discovery with reactive intermediates

University of Bayreuth, Organic Chemistry II, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany

Susana Porcel García

Susana Porcel García

Title: Synthesis of Nitrogen-Containing Heterocycles and Fluorenones via Gold Redox Chemistry

National System of Researchers (SNI), Faculty of Chemistry of UNAM, México

Tatiana Besset

Tatiana Besset

Title: Strategies for (Di)Functionalization by Catalysis

Université de Rouen Normandie, Mont Saint Aignan, Cedex, France

Thanh Vinh Nguyen

Thanh Vinh Nguyen

Title: Olefination of Carbonyl Compounds via Isodesmic Reactions

School of Chemistry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia