Dr Dafydd Owen, Senior Director Medicinal Chemistry, Pfizer, Cambridge Massachusetts will talk about: “The discovery of Paxlovid- the journey of the Pfizer SARS2-Covid 19 drug. ”

Dr Owen was the team leader at Pfizer to develop the oral inhibitor Paxlovid, targeting the SARS2-Covid 19 protease. This discovery was one of the milestones to mitigate the recent COVID19 pandemic.