Hongbo Zhang
Chief Scientific Officer & Head of Drug Discovery Service HitChem
Hongbo has over 10 years of experience in drug discovery and project management at leading CROs and top biotech companies. He has successfully led the development of several small-molecule drug candidates into clinical trials. Since joining HitChem in 2019, he has been leading several early-stage small-molecule drug discovery and overseeing external technical consulting.
Seminars
Wednesday 10th June 2026
From Design to Application: A CRBN Molecular Glue Library Derived from In-House and Literature-Validated CRBN Binders
2:45 pm
- A systematic exploration of the chemical space of CRBN-binding scaffolds (300 compounds synthesized and tested) , SAR insights and highlighting representative, structurally novel, and effective binders.
- An overview of HitChem’s CRBN molecular glue (MG) library design strategy, along with HTS case studies across multiple targets.
