APPW2025

Oranizers :Yuki Shiimura (Institute of Life Science, Kurume University) and Akira Yamashita (Wakayama Medical University, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences)

Recent breakthroughs in research technologies for G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) in various fields, such as cryo-electron microscopy, single-molecule imaging, and optogenetics, have provided opportunities to reveal several pharmacological actions of small molecules. These actions include classical orthosteric effects, allosteric modulation, and biased actions that preferentially elicit specific signals. Advancing research in GPCR drug discovery will require summarizing recent findings from each field and achieving a cross-disciplinary understanding from single molecules and receptor structures to animal behavior. Therefore, inviting experts from diverse fields; medicinal chemistry, structural biology, biophysics, and neuropharmacology, to this symposium would lead to a “concert" of a GPCR research community consisting of a heterogeneous audience with a multilayered understanding of GPCRs.