CDD Vault User Group Meeting In San Diego
Free Registration
August 28, 2025
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Nautilus by Alexandria 3535 General Atomics Ct, San Diego, CA 92121
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Join us in San Diego for our upcoming CDD Vault User Group Meeting to connect with fellow researchers, hear real-world stories from CDD Vault users, and explore the latest product updates and support enhancements!
This free in-person event will feature talks and panel discussions from our customers, product and support updates from the CDD team, and a cocktail hour with live music to close out the day. Whether you're a long-time user or just getting started, we invite you to participate in this collaborative day of knowledge-sharing and networking.
This free in-person event will feature talks and panel discussions from our customers, product and support updates from the CDD team, and a cocktail hour with live music to close out the day. Whether you're a long-time user or just getting started, we invite you to participate in this collaborative day of knowledge-sharing and networking.
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We look forward to welcoming you to the Community Meeting
Speakers & Panelists
Angie Santini, Sr Scientist | 858 Therapeutics ,Talk: Development of a PARG Inhibitor for Cancer Therapy
Angie Santini, is a Sr. Scientist of biology at 8Five8 Therapeutics, which is developing a portfolio of small-molecule drugs that act on novel therapeutic targets in oncology and immunology. Angie has a 25+ years of drug discovery experience in the biotech/pharmaceuticals industry with experience in multiple fields including neuroscience, fibrosis, and oncology. She has been focused on drug development, basic research, target validation, assay development, screening, and DC characterization.
Duncan McColl, Dr of Engineering, Unnatural Products, Talk: CDD Vault Enhanced Engineering at Unnatural Products
A builder at heart, Duncan is driven by the challenge of shaping ideas into scalable systems that empower scientific discovery. As Director of Engineering at Unnatural Products, he leads engineering efforts and shape product direction to accelerate macrocycle drug discovery. Duncan began in cancer genomics at UCSC, applying ML to biological data, and found a passion for building clean, powerful tools that remove friction from scientific insight.
John Bucci, Research Informatics, Plexium, Talk: Building Seamless Data Pipelines for Efficient Drug Discovery and Collaboration
John Bucci is an informatician/data scientist with over 14 years of experience in biotech and drug discovery, specializing in developing automated data analysis pipelines, ML models and informatics solutions tailored for chemists and biologists. John is currently at Plexium in the Research Informatics group leveraging cheminformatics and data science techniques to support library chemistry and high throughput screening teams and accelerate drug discovery.
Dr. Mike Hanson, CEO, Atelier Therapeutics, Talk: Utilization and integration of CDD Vault in a startup biotech
Michael formed Atelier Therapeutics in 2024 to address a growing unmet need in chronic inflammation and neurodegenerative disorders. He has extensive experience in drug discovery, developing cutting edge technology, and entrepreneurship with previous roles as CSO of Abilita Bio, CTO & Founder of Structure Therapeutics, etc. Michael played a significant role in building and implementing a "toolbox" of techniques for protein chemistry and structural determination of integral membrane proteins such as GPCRs. He has led early-stage discovery and made inventive contributions to four clinical-stage programs, including Zeposia, an approved therapy for multiple sclerosis and ulcerative colitis.
Vladimir Makarov, AI Program Manager, Pistoia Alliance, Talk: Faster Drug Discovery through FAIR Standards
Vladimir Makarov is a highly creative and accomplished professional with deep expertise in bioinformatics, biotechnology, and AI. With a Ph.D. in Computational Biology from Baylor College of Medicine, he has built a dynamic career spanning scientific research, consulting, and strategic innovation. Currently consulting Pistoia Alliance as AI Program Manager, Vladimir is passionate about data quality and standardization. He also worked as a consultant for Pfizer and Amgen and as a Dr. of Bioinformatics at Exelixis and Monsanto.
Kellan Gregory, Dr of Product, CDD, Talk: The Future of Discovery: CDD Vault’s Roadmap Toward Smarter Science.
Kellan Gregory is CDD’s Head of Products. He has a degree in Chemical Engineering with an emphasis in biotechnology from Tufts University. Kellan was co-author in an HIV study with Dr. Paul A. Volberding, and interned with BioRad and Libraria.
Charlie Weatherall, Dr of Customer Engagement, CDD, Talk: Scaling Human and Automated Technologies for the Global Research Community
Charlie Weatherall is a Dr of Customer Engagement at Collaborative Drug Discovery. Charlie has over two decades of experience working with industry-leading scientific software companies such as MDL, SciTegic, Accelrys, CambridgeSoft, and IDBS. He has traveled extensively installing software, providing training, and leading workshops at customer sites and conferences and is a backbone of the CDD Support team which we call A-Team.
Panel Discussion : 3D Science: Data, Decisions & Discovery
Moderator: Janice Darlington,