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European Federation for Medicinal Chemistry
The European Federation for Medicinal Chemistry (EFMC) is an independent association founded in 1970. Free from any political convictions, it represents 23 scientific organisations from 20 European countries and covers a geographical area the size of the USA with a similar scientific population. Its objective is to advance the science of medicinal chemistry by promoting cooperation and encouraging strong links between the national adhering organisations in order to promote contacts and exchanges between medicinal chemists in Europe and around the World. An important part of the EFCM activities is the organisation of international scientific meetings. These include the biennial International Symposium on Medicinal Chemistry (EFMC-ISMC), and the International Symposium in Advances in Synthetic and Medicinal Chemistry (ASMC, co-organised with ChemBridge Corporation and sponsored by ACS). Furthermore, EFMC and the ACS-Medi Division in 2007 jointly launched a new series of meetings, Frontiers in Medicinal Chemistry, bringing together leading US and European medicinal chemists. The EFMC also acknowledges the excellence of medicinal chemists’ work, by conferring three major awards: the Nauta Award on Pharmacochemistry, the UCB – Ehrlich Award for Excellence in Medicinal Chemistry and the Prous Institute – Overton and Meyer Award for New Technologies in Drug Discovery, which are given every two years for outstanding achievements in the field of Medicinal Chemistry. The EFMC has very strong links with the Medicinal Chemistry Division of the American Chemical Society, the European Federation for Pharmaceutical Sciences (EUFEPS) and the Asian Federation of Medicinal Chemistry (AFMC), which gives the EFMC a broad international footprint.  
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