Programme
Wednesday, 15th October 2025
| 08:30 - 09:00 | Registration opens |
| 09:00 - 09:10 | Welcome and opening by Prof. Falk Schreiber and Prof. Jian Li |
Session 1: AI-Driven Drug Design / Chemoinformatics
Session Chairs: Jian Li and Mark Cronin
| 09:10 - 09:35 | Prof. Mark Cronin (Liverpool John Moores University, UK) Keynote |
| 09:35 - 09:45 | Discussion |
| 09:45 - 10:10 | Prof. Tony Velkov (Monash University, Australia) Smarter scaffolds: Harnessing AI for lipopeptide innovation |
| 10:10 - 10:25 | Discussion |
| 10:25 - 10:45 | Coffee break |
| 10:45 - 11:05 | Assoc. Prof. Mu Yuguang (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) End-to-end AI-based preclinical drug discovery platform |
| 11:05 - 11:15 | Discussion |
| 11:15 - 12:00 | Accepted Paper Talks |
| 12:00 - 14:00 | Lunch break |
Session 2: Bioinformatics and Omics
Session Chairs: Tony Velkov and Marco Fondi
| 14:00 - 14:25 | Dr. Sebastian Lobentanzer (Helmholtz Zentrum München, Germany) Accessible biomedical AI: open-source frameworks for trustworthy agentic systems |
| 14:25 - 14:40 | Discussion |
| 14:40 - 15:10 | Accepted Paper Talk | 15:10 - 15:35 | Asst. Prof. Jiawei Wang (University of Bath, UK) Learning protein languages from microbes across different ecosystems |
| 15:35 - 15:50 | Discussion |
| 15:50 - 16:10 | Coffee break | 16:10 - 16:35 | Dr. Diyuan Lu (Helmholtz Zentrum München, Germany) Machine learning for antibiotic resistance prediction in H. pylori: insights from whole-genome sequencing |
| 16:35 - 16:50 | Discussion |
| 16:50 - 17:30 | Accepted Paper Talks |
Thursday, 16th October 2025
Session 3a: AI-driven Pharmacometrics
Session Chairs: Amy Cheung and Nicholas Smith
| 09:00 - 09:25 | Prof. Dr. Sebastian Wicha (University Hamburg, Germany) From Therapeutic Drug Monitoring to Model-Informed Precision Dosing for Antibiotics |
| 09:25 - 09:40 | Discussion |
| 09:40 - 10:05 | Assoc. Prof. Gauri Rao (University of Southern California, USA) Keynote |
| 10:05 - 10:20 | Discussion |
| 10:20 - 10:40 | Coffee break |
| 10:40 - 11:05 | M.D. Radu Botgros (European Medicines Agency) PK/PD and AI in the approval of antibiotics in the European Union. |
| 11:05 - 11:20 | Discussion |
| 11:20 - 11:50 | Accepted Paper Talk |
| 11:50 - 12:15 | Assoc. Prof. Xiaojie Wu (Fudan University / Huashan Hospital, China) Model-informed drug development in China for antimicrobial agents |
| 12:15 - 12:30 | Discussion |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch break |
Session 3b: AI-driven Pharmacometrics
Session Chairs: Sebastian Wicha and Gauri Rao
| 14:00 - 14:25 | Dr. Yaxin Fan (Fudan University, China) Machine learning-enhanced model-informed precision dosing of antimicrobials in clinical practice |
| 14:25 - 14:40 | Discussion |
| 14:40 - 15:10 | Accepted Paper Talk | 15:10 - 15:35 | Dr. Amy Cheung (Certara Drug Development Solutions) The strength and opportunities for Model-Informed Drug Development (MIDD) for Antimicrobials |
| 15:35 - 15:50 | Discussion |
| 15:50 - 16:10 | Coffee break |
| 16:10 - 16:35 | Asst. Prof. Nicholas Smith (University at Buffalo, USA) Translational PK/PD to optimize the use of complex biological and biotic agents as anti-infectives |
| 16:35 - 16:50 | Discussion |
| 16:50 - 17:00 | Small break |
| 17:00 - 18:00 | Accepted Paper Talks |
Friday, 17th October 2025
Session 4: Molecular Dynamics Simulations & Virtual Cell / GSMM & Imaging
Session Chairs: Falk Schreiber and Mu Yuguang
| 09:00 - 09:25 | Prof. Kai Yang (Soochow University, China) Computational design of artificial antimicrobial agents via entropy–enthalpy optimization |
| 09:25 - 09:40 | Discussion |
| 09:40 - 10:10 | Accepted Paper Talk |
| 10:10 - 10:30 | Coffee break |
| 10:30 - 10:50 | Assoc. Prof. Marco Fondi (University of Florence, Italy) Keynote |
| 10:50 - 11:00 | Discussion |
| 11:00 - 11:25 | Prof. Dr. Patrick Müller (University of Konstanz, Germany) Keynote |
| 11:25 - 11:40 | Discussion |
| 11:40 - 12:00 | Accepted Paper Talk |
| 12:00 - 14:00 | Lunch break |
Session 5: Round Table Discussion
Session Chairs: Jian Li and Falk Schreiber
| 14:00 - 15:15 | Round Table Discussion |
| 15:15 - 15:30 | Conclusion |
| 15:30 - 18:00 | Networking / Free Afternoon / Visiting Prato |
ICAComP 2025 is organised by Monash University, Melbourne, Australia and University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
Contact
ICAComP 2025 local organiser (icacompconference@gmail.com)
Monash University Prato Campus, Prato, Italy