The program is still filling in: most podium sessions list one speaker so far, and 228 people on the speaker list have no session yet. We’ll add their talks and organizations as SLAS publishes them.

Biopharma and crop-science companies at SLAS2027

Jan 30 – Feb 3, 2027 San Diego, CA ~7.6k attendees Website

34 biopharma and crop-science companies are at SLAS2027 — 31 presentations on the program. Most represented: AstraZeneca (16 on the program), GSK (8 on the program), Genentech (4 on the program). 16 of them have their own page in this guide. As of Oct 17, 2026.

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Showing 1–16 of 34 organizations
OrganizationSLAS2027 Attendance
AstraZeneca
Cambridge, UK
Biopharma
Biopharmaceutical company developing medicines in oncology, rare disease, cardiovascular, renal, metabolic and respiratory disease.
Workshop
Sat Jan 30
8:30am–4:30pm
Genome Editing and AI-Driven Approaches in Drug Discovery and Target Validation
Room 8
Assay development and screening
Workshop
Sun Jan 31
8:30am–12pm
Operationalizing DMTA: From Implementation to Continuous Optimization
Room 1B
Automation and robotics
Workshop
Sun Jan 31
8:30am–4:30pm
An Introduction to Mass Spectrometry and its Applications within Drug Discovery
Room 11B
Assay development and screening
Session
Mon Feb 1
10am–12pm
Advanced Imaging & Phenotypic Screening
Ballroom 6D
Assay development and screening
  1. 10amA Multimodal Perturbation Atlas Defines the Phenotypic Resolution of Cellular Morphology
  2. 10:30amPhenotypic profiling reveals targets impacting mitochondrial dysfunction in COPDAstraZeneca
  3. 11amLive FluoroSpot: Real-Time Imaging of Single-Cell Secretion Dynamics for Functional ScreeningThe University of Tokyo
  4. 11:30amAutomated Screening of Antibiotic Combination and Sequence Effects via a Multiplexed Microfluidic PlatformUniversity of Chicago
Talk
Mon Feb 1
10:30–10:55am
Part of Advanced Imaging & Phenotypic Screening
Phenotypic profiling reveals targets impacting mitochondrial dysfunction in COPD
Ballroom 6D
Assay development and screening
Session
Mon Feb 1
2–2:45pm
Encoded Libraries and Biophyscial Lead Discovery
Ballroom 6F
Assay development and screening
Session
Tue Feb 2
3–5pm
Emerging Assays and Screening Technology
Ballroom 6D
Assay development and screening
Also
Presenting at the meeting, beyond the sessions above
GSK
London, UK
Biopharma
Biopharmaceutical company developing vaccines and medicines in infectious disease, HIV, respiratory, immunology and oncology.
Session
Mon Feb 1
10am–12pm
People at the Heart of Lab Automation: Building Skills, Careers, and Adoption
Ballroom 6F
Automation and robotics
Session
Mon Feb 1
3–5pm
ADMET Automation Success and Innovation
Ballroom 6F
Automation and robotics
Session
Tue Feb 2
10am–12pm
Sample Management
Room 8
Sample management and tracking
Session
Tue Feb 2
1–1:45pm
Proximity Assays
Room 7AB
Assay development and screening
Session
Tue Feb 2
3–5pm
Automation Technology to Maximize Lead Optimization of Antibodies, Biologics and Synthetic Peptides
Ballroom 6F
Automation and robotics
  1. 3:30pmTalk, title to be announced
Also
Presenting at the meeting, beyond the sessions above
Genentech
South San Francisco, CA
Biopharma
Biotechnology company and member of the Roche Group, discovering and developing medicines for serious diseases.
Session
Mon Feb 1
3–5pm
Beyond Dose-Response - Perturbation Screens to Uncover Drug Effects in Patient-Derived Cells
Room 7AB
Cell culture and 3D models
Session
Tue Feb 2
10am–12pm
Automation Technology to Maximize Organic Chemistry Synthesis
Ballroom 6F
Automation and robotics
Session
Tue Feb 2
2–2:45pm
Sample Management
Ballroom 6C
Sample management and tracking
Also
Presenting at the meeting, beyond the sessions above
Biopharma
Biopharmaceutical company developing medicines in oncology, hematology, immunology, cardiovascular disease and neuroscience.
Workshop
Sat Jan 30
8:30am–4:30pm
Introduction to Lab Automation
Room 1B
Automation and robotics
Also
Presenting at the meeting, beyond the sessions above
Recursion
Salt Lake City, UT
Biopharma
Biotech combining automated biology, cellular imaging and machine learning to discover medicines.
Session
Mon Feb 1
10am–12pm
Mechanistic and Causal AI: From Predictive Patterns to Prescriptive Discovery
Ballroom 6C
Software, data and AI
Talk
Wed Feb 3
3–3:25pm
Part of Enabling the Connection Between Automation Processes/ Platforms for Target Candidate Profile
Why we automated DMTL. And why you should too.
Ballroom 6F
Automation and robotics
Also
Presenting at the meeting, beyond the sessions above
Calico Life Sciences
South San Francisco, CA
Biopharma
Alphabet-founded research company studying the biology of aging to develop medicines for age-related diseases.
Talk
Wed Feb 3
1:30–1:55pm
Part of Enabling the Connection Between Automation Processes/ Platforms for Target Candidate Profile
Automation for the in vitro assay cascade at Calico
Ballroom 6F
Automation and robotics
Also
Presenting at the meeting, beyond the sessions above
AbbVie
North Chicago, IL
Biopharma
Biopharmaceutical company developing medicines in immunology, oncology, neuroscience and eye care.
Also
Presenting at the meeting, on no published session yet
Gilead Sciences
Foster City, CA
Biopharma
Biopharmaceutical company developing medicines in HIV, liver disease, oncology and inflammation.
Also
Presenting at the meeting, on no published session yet
Eli Lilly and Company
Indianapolis, IN
Biopharma
Pharmaceutical company developing medicines in diabetes, obesity, oncology, immunology and neuroscience.
Workshop
Sat Jan 30
8:15am–5pm
Assay Guidance Workshop for High-Throughput Screening and Lead Discovery
Room 3
Assay development and screening
Session
Tue Feb 2
10am–12pm
AI for Assay Development and Prediction
Ballroom 6D
Assay development and screening
  1. 10:30amFrom Brightfield Images to Phenotypic Insight: An AI-Based Pipeline for In Vitro Screening
Pfizer
New York, NY
Biopharma
Pharmaceutical company developing medicines and vaccines in oncology, inflammation, rare disease and infectious disease.
Session
Mon Feb 1
10am–12pm
Expanding Induced Proximity Paradigms Beyond Traditional Targeted Protein Degradation (TPD)
Ballroom 6E
New modalities
Session
Mon Feb 1
2–2:45pm
Encoded Libraries and Biophyscial Lead Discovery
Ballroom 6F
Assay development and screening
Amgen
Thousand Oaks, CA
Biopharma
Biotechnology company developing medicines for cardiovascular disease, cancer, inflammation and bone health.
Also
Presenting at the meeting, on no published session yet
Merck & Co.
Rahway, NJ
Biopharma
Pharmaceutical company, known as MSD outside the US and Canada, developing medicines and vaccines.
Also
Presenting at the meeting, on no published session yet
Roche
Basel, Switzerland
Biopharma
Healthcare company developing pharmaceuticals and diagnostics.
Also
Presenting at the meeting, on no published session yet
C4 Therapeutics
Watertown, MA
Biopharma
Biotech developing targeted protein degrader medicines for cancer.
Session
Mon Feb 1
2–2:45pm
ADMET
Room 7AB
Assay development and screening
FMC Corporation
Philadelphia, PA
Biopharma
Agricultural sciences company developing crop protection products.
Session
Mon Feb 1
2–2:45pm
Automation and Screening in Agri-Tech
Ballroom 6C
Automation and robotics · Assay development and screening
Neomorph
San Diego, CA
Biopharma
Biotech developing molecular glue degraders that direct disease-causing proteins for destruction.
Session
Tue Feb 2
10am–12pm
Harnessing Machine Learning and Generative AI to Transform Therapeutic Discovery and Design
Ballroom 6E
New modalities
  1. 10:30amBuilding AI/ML-Ready Multimodal Data Resources at Scale

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