This meeting will appeal to all who are involved in medicinal chemistry, widely interpreted, in both academia and industry. Academic staff from early career researchers upwards, postdoctoral fellows, PhD students and final year undergraduates will all find something of interest. Drug discovery, optimisation, DMPK considerations, libraries and chemical biology will all feature as topics. Following last year's pattern, we shall again feature a lecture by the current BMCS Lectureship holder, Dr. Jamie Scott of Astra Zeneca, which we we are confident will provide inspiration for the younger generation of medicinal chemists.