Innovative Medicines 2026: From Molecule to Patient

About the event

The third International Conference Innovative Medicines: From Molecule to Patient was scheduled for 20–22 October 2026 in a hybrid format. Its in-person venue was the A. P. Nelyubin Institute of Pharmacy at Sechenov University in Moscow; online participation was also announced. The conference marks the institute’s 90th anniversary. Sechenov University invited specialists to an interdisciplinary scientific and educational platform for exchanging research and practice in medicine development.

The official description connects innovation in pharmacy with developing technologies, big-data analysis, artificial intelligence, genomics and molecular biology, personalised treatment and interdisciplinary collaboration. This sets the context for the conference themes: research approaches are considered alongside how a medicine is developed and the stages between a scientific idea and medical use. The copy reflects the published framing and does not claim that particular studies or results were presented.

For researchers and developers, a starting point is the design, synthesis and study of new compounds. Further subjects include preclinical and clinical research, fundamental and applied biotechnology, medicines from natural sources, and pharmaceutical botany and pharmacognosy. Together these offer several scientific perspectives on development: finding a compound, studying its properties, moving through research stages and investigating biological sources. Visitors can select sections by stage of work or by the material being studied.

A separate block addresses the development, standardisation and quality control of medicines. The programme also names drug-delivery systems, legal regulation of medicines, information technology in pharmacy, pharmacoeconomics and pharmacoepidemiology. These topics extend laboratory research into quality, regulation, use and the organisation of medicine provision. For pharmaceutical professionals and physicians, the range supports finding not only scientific sessions but also questions connected with the practical side of medicines.

The university notice specifically lists an open meeting of the Federal Educational and Methodological Association for Pharmacy on the role of universities in scientific and technological development: experience, challenges and solutions. It links the event to pharmaceutical education and may interest teachers, programme leaders, researchers and students. Scientific sections sit alongside discussion of pharmacy education, allowing professional preparation to be considered with research and development without treating these formats as one session.

Another listed programme component is the Evidence-Based Cosmeceutics: The Future Is in Science forum. It addresses an interdisciplinary area at the intersection of pharmaceutical research and products associated with skin health and care; the checked pages do not give a complete list of talks. Its theme complements natural medicines, development and quality-control subjects while remaining a distinct forum within the conference programme. Visitors interested in this strand should look for it in the current programme grid.

The educational round table concerns the role of pharmacy education in training specialists for chemical-toxicological and forensic-chemical expertise in the era of innovative medicines. The university notice also names a youth section: international youth science and entrepreneurship, student start-ups, a scientific-presentation competition for young researchers in English, and an English-language poster competition. These give students and early-career researchers specific entry points into the programme through education, project work and presentation of research.

To connect research, education and industry practice, the programme lists employer dialogues with leading research centres, pharmaceutical companies and biotechnology companies. It also names an Industry–Learners–Teachers discussion club in a business-game format. Visitors considering career or education pathways can use these sections to identify employer conversations or compare perspectives from industry, students and teachers. They are components of the conference programme, not separate conferences.

The conference site publishes an international programme committee. Its members include Professor David William Morton of La Trobe University, Associate Professor Julietta Rau of Sechenov University and a research group at the Italian National Research Council, Professor Nevena Jeremic of the University of Kragujevac, and Professor Roman Zubarev, associated with Sechenov University and Karolinska Institutet. Their profiles show the committee’s international and interdisciplinary range; the list itself does not assign talks to individual sections.

The invitation addresses pharmaceutical professionals, researchers, university teachers, physicians from different specialties, human-resources specialists, young scientists and students. Russian and English are the working languages, and participation is listed as free. The in-person address is 96 Vernadsky Avenue, Building 1, Moscow, at the Nelyubin Institute; the official contact page gives Troparevo metro, exit 7. The listed dates were ending on 22 October. The checked sources do not specify the online platform or rooms for individual sessions, so connection details and session routes should be checked in the current programme.