8th International Electronic Conference on Medicinal Chemistry
On behalf of the conference team of the 8th International Electronic Conference on Medicinal Chemistry, we would like to thank you for your participation by sending your contributions, being posters, slideshows or flash communications. We hope you've enjoyed it!
the chairs
Dear Colleagues,
Following the great success of the previous editions organized under the excellent chairmanship of Dr. Jean Jacques Vanden Eynde, we are pleased to cordially invite you to join us at 8th International Electronic Conference on Medicinal Chemistry, sponsored by the MDPI open access journal Pharmaceuticals. This platform seeks to provide a discussion forum for scientists from all over the world for recent developments and innovative ideas in Medicinal Chemistry. This will give students, researchers, and experts the opportunity to share their latest theories, results, models, and applications in this multidisciplinary area of knowledge. This is an entirely on-line conference that will be held during the month of November at https://ecmc2022.sciforum.net/. No registration fee is charged to participants, and there is the added advantage that there is no cost of flights, hotels, etc.
The conference will be organized around the aims and scope of the journal Pharmaceuticals, which include the following general topics:
Small molecules as drug candidates
Biomolecules, natural products, phages, and cells as therapeutic tools
Biological targets and biomarkers
Radiopharmaceutical sciences, radiochemistry, (hybrid) imaging, and nuclear medicine
Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics
Pharmaceutical preparations and drug delivery
The format of the conference is as follows. Researchers are invited to provide a short abstract (250 words maximum without figures and without references) online at https://sciforum.net/user/submission from now until 21 September 2022 30 September 2022. Each participant can submit only one abstract as a presenting author and a maximum of three submissions per research group. All authors will be notified by 1 October 2022 with regard to the acceptance status of their abstract, at which point they will be asked to present their work (in English) in the form of a poster, a slideshow, or a video using the templates provided by the conference (see Instructions for Authors). All accepted submissions will be displayed online, open for discussion, comments, and questions, during the entire conference, at https://ecmc2022.sciforum.net/, on 1–30 November 2022.
All participants will be invited to submit a full paper describing their work. All submissions will be reviewed using the powerful text comparison tool iThenticate. This procedure aims to prevent scholarly and professional plagiarism. Submissions will then be peer-reviewed by conference committees based on originality/novelty, quality of presentation, scientific soundness, interest to the readers, overall merit and English level. Upon acceptance, submission will be published in a Special Issue “Selected Papers from the 8th International Electronic Conference on Medicinal Chemistry (ECMC2022)” covering the event in Pharmaceuticals (ISSN 1424-8247) sponsor of the conference . A 20% discount on the Article Processing Charge will be applied.
The most outstanding works, as selected by the scientific committee, will be rewarded with grants offered by the sponsoring journal Pharmaceuticals.
We look forward to engaging in exciting discussions and hearing new ideas and perspectives from experts in the field. All participants are welcome to join the online conference.
Kind regards,
Dr. Alfredo Berzal-Herranz
Prof. Dr. Maria Emília Sousa
Meet the Event Chairs
Important Dates
- Abstract submission deadlineSep 30, 2022
- Abstract acceptance notificationOct 01, 2022
- Full file submission deadlineOct 31, 2022
Meet Our Speakers
Dr. Cecilia Bombelli
Institute for Biological System, Secondary office of Rome-Reaction Mechanisms, c/o Chemistry Dept Sapienza University of Rome, Italy;
Dr. Ana Marta Matos
Center of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal;
Prof. Dr. Daniela Gonçales Galasse Rando
Grupo de Pesquisas Químico-Farmacêuticas, GPQFfesp, Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Institute of Environmental, Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil;
Prof. Dr. Gill Diamond
Department Oral Immunology and Infectious Diseases, School of Dentistry, University of Louisville, USA;
Prof. Dr. Monique van Hoek
Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, School of Systems Biology, George Mason University, USA;
Prof. Dr. Marcel Bermúdez
Theoretical Medicinal Chemistry, Institute of Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Germany;
Dr. Anna Junker
Group of Receptor Ligands for Molecular Imaging, European Institute for Molecular Imaging (EIMI), Muenster University, Germany;
Dr. Macarena Sánchez Navarro
Group of Chemical biology of peptides and proteins, Department of Molecular Biology, Instituto de Parasitologia y Biomedicina "Lopez-Neyra" Spain;
Prof. Dr. Isabel Almeida
UCIBIO/REQUIMTE, Associate Laboratory i4HB - Institute for Health and Bioeconomy, MedTech-Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Technology, Department of Drug Sciences, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Porto, Portugal;
Prof. Dr. Magaly Girão Albuquerque
IQ, Laboratório de Modelagem Molecular (LabMMol) - Sala 609, Departamento de Química Orgânica, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Cidade Universitária, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil;
Dr. Tim O'Sullivan
School of Pharmacy and School of Chemistry, University College Cork, Ireland;
Dr. Parthiban Marimuthu
Docent in Structural Biology and Computational Biochemistry, Pharmaceutical Sciences Laboratory & Structural Bioinformatics Laboratory, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Åbo Akademi University, Finland;
Prof. Dr. Isabel Rosas
School of Chemistry, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland;
Dr. Vera Marisa Costa
UCIBIO-REQUIMTE, Rede de Química e Tecnologia,Porto University, Portugal;
- S1. Opening session
- S2. Invited lectures
- S3. General
- S4. Small molecules as drug candidates
- S5. Biomolecules as therapeutics
Sponsors and Partners
Organizer
Media partner
Ms. Amber Zhao
Ms. Jennifer Wang
Email: ecmc@mdpi.com
On behalf of the chairs of the 8th International Electronic Conference on Medicinal Chemistry (ECMC-8), we are pleased to announce the winners of the Conference Award:
Best Poster Award
- Marie Hanot et al., "Development of New Anti-virulence Agents to Tackle Multi-resistant Pseudomonas Aeruginosa".
Marie Hanot is a second-year Ph.D. student in Medicinal Chemistry, in the team of Pr. Pascal Sonnet (AGIR, UR4294) at the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Picardie Jules Verne (France). Marie’s research focuses on the development of anti-virulence agents to combat pseudomonal multi-drug resistance. Marie holds a B.Sc. degree in chemistry from the same institution as well as a M.Sc. degree in Chemistry, Biology and Drugs from the University of Strasbourg (France).
Best Slideshow Award
- Maddalena Paolillo et al., "Binding to Proteins of the Pharmacologically Active Bis(Maltolato) Oxidovanadium(IV)".
The presenting author, Maddalena Paolillo, is a first-year Ph.D. student in Chemical Sciences from Department of Chemical Sciences of University of Naples Federico II (Italy). She is working under the supervision of Prof. Antonello Merlino and Prof. Filomena Sica.
She holds a master’s degree in chemical sciences (2022), with a thesis on the refinement of crystal structures of adducts formed upon reaction of model proteins with a vanadium compound of medical interest. The topic of her Ph.D. is focused on the study of the mechanism of action of different V-based drugs by analyzing, both in solution and at solid state, their interaction with biological macromolecules.
Best Flash Communication Award
- Fabian Krutzek et al., "Small Molecule Radiotracers for PET Imaging of PD-L1 with Copper-64”.
Fabian Krutzek studied Chemistry at the University of Heidelberg and obtained 2019 his Master degree in organic chemistry. Currently he is a fourth-year PhD student at the Helmholtz Center Dresden-Rossendorf under supervision of Prof. Dr. Klaus Kopka. His research project focuses on design, synthesis, and evaluation of small molecule-based radiotracers for imaging PD-L1 in cancer patients. This project requires a high level of synthetic organic chemistry, with up to 25 synthetic steps per molecule. In the interdisciplinary field of medicinal radiochemistry, he developed skills in radiochemical labeling and obtained basic knowledge in computational methods as well as cell-based assays. Through collaboration with biologists, he gained theoretical knowledge on the conduction and analysis of data from animal studies. Currently in the final months of his Ph.D. studies, he plans to pursue post-doctoral studies abroad in a related field of organic chemistry.
Best Communication Award
-Ana Marta de Matos et al., "C-Glucosyl Flavone Derivatives as Non-PAIN Therapeutic Leads for Alzheimer’s Disease".
Ana Marta de Matos graduated in Biochemistry in 2011 at FCUL and completed her M.Sc. degree in Medicinal Chemistry at FFUL in 2013. She then returned to FCUL where she pursued her Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry with a focus on the synthesis and biological evaluation of new sugar-based polyphenols with bioactivity against type 2 diabetes and Alzheimer’s disease. During her path as a Ph.D. student, she spent nine months at Eli Lilly’s Neuroscience Research Centre in Windlesham, UK, where she worked closely with some of the best Medicinal Chemists in the World. She completed her Ph.D. in 2019, published her results in high-quality peer-reviewed scientific journals in the field, and won the FCiências.ID award for Best Ph.D. Thesis in Chemistry in 2019. In July 2021, Ana received a research contract to initiate her career as an independent researcher at Centro de Química Estrutural (CQE), from the Institute of Molecular Sciences (IMS), FCUL. One year later, she was awarded a contract in the highly competitive FCT call 'Scientific Employment Stimulus 2022’, having also been nominated as shadow coordinator of the Carbohydrate Chemistry Group of CQE, FCUL. Ana Marta is currently interested in developing new carbohydrate-based compounds against infections caused by multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria.
Best Invited Lecture Award
Dr Tim O’Sullivan received his BSc Degree in Industrial Chemistry from the University of Limerick in 1997. He then went on to do a PhD in natural products synthesis under the supervision of Prof. Lew Mander at the Research School of Chemistry of the Australian National University from 1998 to 2001. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher on the synthesis of Tamoxifen analogues with Prof. Mary Meegan in Trinity College Dublin from 2001 before taking up another postdoctoral fellowship with Prof. Pat Guiry in University College Dublin on the synthesis of novel Lipoxin analogues in 2003 . Following a period as research manager in UCD, he was appointed as Lecturer in Pharmaceutical Chemistry in the School of Pharmacy/Department of Chemistry/ABCRF in UCC in 2006. He is a member of the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Marie Curie Alumni Association and COST Action 'CA21145 European Network for diagnosis and treatment of antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections (EURESTOP)'. His research is focussed on developing new methods and strategies for the synthesis of bioactive, natural products. The underlying goal in this work is to improve upon existing techniques and to discover novel methods for assembling complex molecular targets. The ultimate aim is to apply this knowledge to the development of more potent analogues of existing compounds, with a view to producing pharmaceutically relevant therapeutic agents.
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-Rosa Tundis et al., "In vitro inhibitory effects on pancreatic lipase and α-glucosidase activity by extracts and fractions of Lavandula angustifolia L. from Southern Italy ".
-Maria Mernea et al., "A molecular docking study on natural compounds as anxiolytics and antidepressants ".