Progress in the Design and Development of Drugs ? Strategies for Lead Discovery Pharmacophore Searching and Virtual Screening Multi-target Drug Design- Selectivity Approach Development of new synthetic approaches and methodologies Biochemical Pharmacology / Toxicology/ Chemical Biology CNS acting agents Anticancer Research Chemotherapeutic agents Metabolic disorders Inflammatory and Autoimmune Diseases Natural Products PhysChem Profiling of Drugs- ADME / Tox Bio-informatics/Metabonomics Pharmaceutical Analysis Radiopharmaceutics Organometallics Emerging Technologies / Nanotechnology
Topics: Starting on the right foot - selection criteria in lead discovery Applications of computational methods in lead discovery Receptors and beyond Polypharmacology: creating selective non-selectivity Application of stem cell technology to drug discovery G-protein coupled receptors: old landscape with new eyes Orexin antagonists as novel treatment of insomnia New avenues to target G-protein coupled receptors Scientific Committee: D. Donati (Italy) G. Gaviraghi (Italy) M. Giannella (Italy) R.A. Glennon (USA) F. Gualtieri (Italy) R. Leurs (The Netherlands) A. Makriyannis (Cyprus) C. Melchiorre (Italy) L. Mosti (Italy) R. Pellicciari (Italy) E. Ratti (Italy) H. Timmerman (The Netherlands) DJ. Triggle (USA)
Contact: Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche, via S. Agostino, 1 – 62032 Camerino – Italy Tel: +390737402237; +390737402368; Fax:+390737637345 Email: secretariat.camerino@unicam.it
Topics: CNS Medicinal Chemistry Epigenetics: A New Pathway to Drug Discovery Oncology Medicinal Chemistry Antibacterial and Antiviral Agents Pharmaceutical Profiling Assays in Drug Discovery and Development Drug Design
Organizing Committee: L. Brasili S. Caffieri A. Chilin F. Dall'Acqua (chairman) L. Dalla Via A. Dolmella C. Franchini B. Gatto G. Innocenti M. Palumbo
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Padova Via Marzolo 5 35131 Padova (Italy)
Pharmacophore Searching and Virtual Screening Structure-Based Drug Design - Drugability Bioinformatics / Chemoinformatics Systems Biology and biological complexity Multitarget QSAR QSPR for novel biomaterials and regenerative medicine In silico PhysChem Profiling and ADMET Predictive Toxicology and Risk Assessment - Environmental QSAR Computational Strategies in Agricultural Research Novel QSAR Approaches
Symposium Chair: Anna Tsantili - Kakoulidou University of Athens tsantili@pharm.uoa.gr