EFMC News

Gerhard Ecker, University of Vienna, Austria and currently Secretary of EFCM, was elected to President-elect of EFMC. He will start his presidency in Jan, 2009.

The Council meeting in Portoroz approved the application of two new member societies: the section of Pharmaceutical/Medicinal Chemistry of the German Pharmaceutical Society and the Medicinal Chemistry Group of the Portuguese Chemical Society

The Web-site now offers the possibility to indicate whether you are a member of one of the EFMC Member Societies. This is a further step towards creating direct benefit for scientists who are members of our National Adhering Organisations. Please have a look and register today (click here to register on www.efmc.info) !

The Call for the three EFMC Awards will be launched in autumn 2007: the Nauta Award for Pharmacochemistry, the UCB Award for Excellence in Medicinal Chemistry and the Prous Science Award for New Technologies in Drug Discovery. Please be prepared to send us your nominations!

The EFMC-sponsored session at the 234th ACS National Meeting in Boston, Aug 19-23, (www.chemistry.org) is organised by Roberto Pellicciari and will focus on “Treatment of Cerebral Ischemia: Recent Therapeutic Strategies”. The detailed program and the abstracts of the talks can be found here