Program Overview
Program Overview

The preliminary program of 3rd MMCS: Shaping Medicinal Chemistry for the New Decade is now available.

Program Structure

Wednesday 27 July 2022 Thursday 28 July 2022 Friday 29 July 2022

Morning

Check-in

Opening Ceremony

Session 1: Molecules against drug resistant microorganisms and SARS-CoV-2

Session 4: Part II

Session 6: Part III

Coffee Break
Coffee Break
Coffee Break

Session 3: Machine Learning in Drug Design

Session 6: Medicinal Chemistry Tales

Session 5: Multitarget Drug Discovery


Lunch Lunch & Poster Session A
Lunch & Poster Session B



Workshop 1
Afternoon

Session 4: Natural Compounds in Drug Discovery

Session 6: Part II

Session 5: Part II
Coffee Break

Social Events

Coffee Break

Session 2: Targeting Proteins for Degradation: PROTACS, PHOTACS, LYTACs, and molecular glues

Awards Ceremony
& Closing Remarks

Flash Posters Presentations


Detailed Program

Wednesday 27 July 2022

08:15 – 08:45

Registration Desk Open (Check-in)

08:45 – 09:00

Welcome

Chairs: Prof. Rino Ragno and Prof. Diego Muñoz-Torrero

Open ceremony and greetings from the Director of the Department and the deputy-rector at the International Area of Sapienza: Prof. Claudio Villani and Prof. Bruno Botta

Session 1

Molecules against drug resistant microorganisms and SARS-CoV-2
Chaired by Prof. Maria Emília Sousa

09:00 – 09:30

Keynote talk:
Svetlana Tsogoeva
"Multi-Step Domino Reactions: Facile Access to Antiviral, Antimalarial and Anticancer Agents"

09:30 – 10:00

Keynote talk:
Kelly Chibale
"Combating Multi-Drug Resistance in Tuberculosis: strategies underpinned by Medicinal Chemistry

10:00 – 10:15

Thanigaimalai Pillaiyar "Small molecule inhibitors of SARS-CoV-2 Mpro: Enzyme inhibition and mechanism, antiviral activity, structure-activity relationship, and X-ray structure determination"

10:15 – 10:30

Angelo Oneto "Potent, non-peptidic irreversible inhibitors of SARS-CoV-2 main protease"

10:30 – 10:45

Elisabetta di Bello "Effects of Structurally Different HDAC Inhibitors against Trypanosoma Cruzi, Leishmania and Schistosoma mansoni"

10:45 – 11:00

Eleonora Proia "Ligand-Based and Structure-Based Predictive Models for SARS-CoV-2 Main Protease Ligands"

11:00 – 11:30

Coffee Break

Session 3

Machine Learning in Drug Design
Chaired by Prof. Rino Ragno

11:30 – 12:00

Keynote talk:
Gabriele Cruciani
"Exploiting PROTAC technology as an innovative for the treatment of lethal prostate cancer"

12:00 – 12:15

Maxime Langevin "What kind of applicability domain for molecular generative artificial intelligence?"

12:15 – 12:30

Barak Akabayov "Expanding the chemical space of a hit molecule obtained by NMR fragment screening using machine-learning"

12:30 – 12:45

Franco Lombardo "Human Dose Prediction in Drug Discovery: (when) is it possible?"

12:45 – 13:00

Vesna Rastija "Antitumor activity of rhodanine derivatives: Quantitative structure-activity relationship and molecular docking study"

13:00 – 15:00

Lunch

14:15 – 15:00

Workshop 1

Session 4

Natural Compounds in Drug Discovery (Part 1)
Chaired by Prof. Mariana Spetea

15:00 – 15:30

Keynote talk:
Janine Cossy
"Synthetic Approach to a Natural Antitumor Agent"

15:30 – 15:45

Göklem Üner "A new perspective to natural product chemistry: non-apoptotic cell death induction via small molecule based supramolecular particles originating from sapogenins"

15:45 – 16:00

Mariana Spetea "The plant-derived alkaloid, sewarine, as a novel kappa-opioid receptor ligand: An experimental assessment and molecular docking"

16:00 – 16:15

Laura Treiber "Synthesis of the upper binding arm of kibdelomycin, a novel broad-spectrum, Gram-positive focussed antibiotic without cross-resistance to known gyrase inhibitors"

16:15 – 16:30

Filippo Umberto Sapienza "New potential applications of essential oils; an insight on Py-OE (3dQsar)"

16:30 – 17:00

Coffee Break

Session 2

Targeting Proteins for Degradation: PROTACS, PHOTACS, LYTACs, and molecular glues
Chaired by Prof. Massimo Bertinaria

17:00 – 17:30

Keynote talk:
Carles Galdeano
"Expanding the toolbox of E3 ligases for PROTACs: drugging the Fbxw7 E3 ligase"

17:30 – 18:00

Keynote talk:
Manfred Jung
"Dual inhibitors of acetylation and fatty acid-deacylation by the NAD dependent histone deacetylase Sirtuin2 (Sirt2)"

18:00 - 18:15

Maurizio Pellecchia "NMR- and structure-guided design of Lysine covalent ligands for PPI antagonists and degraders"

18:15 – 18:45

Flash Poster Session

Dariia Samofalova "Identification Of Novel Potential Inhibitors Of Dpre1 From Mycobacterium Tuberculosis And Mycobacterium Bovis"

Olga Bobileva "3-(Adenosylthio)methyl benzoic acid with modified adenosine as SARS-CoV-2 methyltransferases inhibitors"

Bahne Stechmann "Identifying molecules against SARS-CoV-2 and future pandemics collaboratively within an open-access research infrastructure initiative"

Federica Blua "Design and synthesis of encorafenib-based BRAF-V600E degraders"

Salvatore Galati "VenomPred: A Machine Learning Based Platform for Molecular Toxicity Predictions"

Arianna Colcerasa "Synthesis and biological evaluation of Schistosoma mansoni Sirtuin2 (SmSirt2) inhibitors"

Noemí Vilella "Targeting Plasmodium falciparum dihydroorotate dehydrogenase: design, synthesis, co-crystallization and biological evaluation of new 3-hydroxypyrazole scaffold-based inhibitors"

Manuel Schriefer "Synthesis of the lower binding arm of kibdelomycin, a novel gyr B- and topo IV-inhibitory antibiotic"

Alessandra Salerno "A fragment-based approach for the development of trypanothione reductase inhibitors as antileishmanial agents"

Marc Panosetti "Design, synthesis and biological evaluation of new RNA ligands targeting miR-210: modulation of the circadian clock for cancer chemotherapy"

Thursday 28 July 2022

Session 4

Part II
Chaired by Prof. Mariana Spetea

09:00 – 09:30

Keynote talk:
Markus Kalesse
"Stereoselective Sparteine-free 1,2-Metallate Rearrangements in the Syntheses of Chondrochlorene and Meridamycin"

09:30 – 09:45

Maria Carpena "How to solve the quantification issues inherited from the antioxidant assays based on single-electron transfer? A mathematical approach"

09:45-10:00

Sandra Kovachka"Panicein A Hydroquinone (PAH) and analogs overcome chemotherapy resistance in cancer cells"

10:00 – 10:15

Abdellah Ezzanad "Effect of neurogenesis promoters, phorbol esters and derivatives of 12-deoxyphorbol esters, on the inhibition of cytochrome P450"

10:15 – 11:00

Coffee break

Session 6

Medicinal Chemistry Tales – Part I
Chaired by Dr. Jóhannes Reynisson FRSC

11:00 – 11:30

Keynote talk:
Mauro Maccarrone
Plant-Derived & Endogenous Cannabinoids: Different in Nature

11:30 – 11:45

Flavio Emery "Synthesis and structural activity relationships of novel isoindolone series against Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense"

11:45 – 12:00

Elizabeth Lopes "Identification of a Novel Scaffold for Dual MDM2/X Inhibition"

12:00 – 12:15

Carmen Cerchia "Discovery of novel naphthylphenylketone and naphthylphenylamine derivatives as Cell Division Cycle 25B (CDC25B) Phosphatase Inhibitors via in silico design"

12:15 – 12:30

Rosana Ribić "Design, synthesis and evaluation of immunostimulating activities of mannosylated desmuramyl peptides containing lipophilic substituents"

12:30 – 12:45

Eleonora Diamanti "Targeting the Energy-Coupling Factor Transporters: a novel antibacterial target"

12:45 – 14:45

Lunch break

Session 6 - Part II
Chaired by Dr. Jóhannes Reynisson FRSC

14:45 - 15:15

Keynote talk:
Rebecca Wade -
"Mapping dynamic protein binding sites for the design of selective anti-infective agents"

15:15 – 15:30

Chiara Borsari Volume Scanning, a Rational Approach to Covalent PI3Ka Inhibitors

15:30 – 15:45

Ouldouz Ghashghaei Facilitated Access to Novel Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor Ligands through Extended Multicomponent Reactions

15:45 – 16:00

Johannes Reynisson The cytotoxic potential of cationic triangulenes against tumour cells

16:00 – 16:15

Cristina Maccallini The inhibition of iNOS as a promising strategy against cancer development: good news from novel phenyl-amidine based compounds

16:15 – 16:30

Ariadna Gil-Martinez Targeting multimeric G-quadruplex structures using reinforced ligands

Friday 29 July 2022

Session 6

Part III
Chaired by Dr. Jóhannes Reynisson FRSC

09:00 – 09:30

Keynote talk:
Olalla Vázquez
"Our Journey To Achieve Photoinhibition of Haematopoiesis in Vivo"

09:30 – 09:45

Marta Giorgis "Targeting Acute Myelogenous Leukemia using potent human dihydroorotate dehydrogenase inhibitors based on the 2-hydroxypyrazolo[1,5-a]pyridine scaffold: from academy to clinic"

09:45-10:00

Jorge González García "Delivery of a potent G-quadruplex DNA binder to cancer cells by aptamer functionalized liposomes"

10:00 – 10:15

Sundus Erbas Cakmak "Regulation Of Gene Expression With Smart Activatable Therapeutics"

10:15 – 10:30

Stefan Laufer "Discovery And Development Of A Mkk-4 Inhibitors To Increase Liver Regeneration"

10:30 – 11:15

Coffee break

Session 5

Multitarget Drug Discovery – Part I
Chaired by Prof. Dante Rotili

11:15 – 11:45

Keynote talk:
Maria Laura Bolognesi
Expanding the polypharmacology toolbox for neurodegenerative diseases

11:45 – 12:00

Elisabetta Marini "Multitarget antioxidant NO-donor organic nitrates: a novel approach to overcome nitrates tolerance"

12:00 – 12:15

Jussara Amato "Anticancer activity of G-quadruplex DNA-targeting monohydrazone based compounds"

12:15 – 12:30

Laura Fumagalli "Novel series of multitarget ligands for the treatment of Type 2 Diabetes."

12:30 – 12:45

Diogo Rodrigo Moreira "Studies of potency and efficacy of an optimized dihydroartemisinin-quinoline hybrid against multiple stages of the Plasmodium life cycle"

12:45 – 14:30

Lunch break

Session 5 - Part II
Chaired by Prof. Dante Rotili

14:30 – 15:00

Keynote talk:
Antonello Mai
Epi-Polypharmacology: A Medicinal Chemistry Perspective

15:00 – 15:15

Chiara Disraeli Synthesis, biological activity and physicochemical properties evaluation of antiplasmodial pyrimido[1,2-a]benzimidazoles

15:15 – 15:30

Raquel Gil-Edo Multitarget inhibitors as anticancer agents with immunomodulatory and antiangiogenic properties

15:30 – 15:45

Maurinne Bonnet Design, synthesis and biological evaluation of novel RNA binders

15:45 – 16:00

Giorgia Canini In silico characterization of glucosylceramide synthase (GCS) binding site by Induced Fit Docking, Molecular Dynamics and Metadynamics

Awards Ceremony & Closing Remarks


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