Dr. Hans Peter Märki
NEWS ON ACTIVITIES FOR 2010
August 20, 2010, 2nd International Symposium on "DNA-Encoded Chemical Libraries" ETH Zürich, organized by Prof. Dr. Dario Neri.
September 16, 2010: Division of Medicinal Chemistry, oral and poster session at the Fall Meeting of the Swiss Chemical Society, ETH Zürich.
September 21-24, 2010: The Swiss Chemical Society will organize the ILMAC Scientific Forum at the Fair Basel (MCH) entitled “From Nylon to Nanomaterials. Future Trends in Polymers”, with a specific section on September 23 dedicated to Biopolymers and Polymer Based Drug Delivery. The program will include a lecture by Prof. Alberto A. Gabizon (Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel): “Delivery of Anticancer Agents by Liposomes: Nanomedicine in Action”.
October 10-15, 2010: 9th Swiss Course on Medicinal Chemistry, organized by Professor Beat Ernst in Leysin, a pittoresque Swiss mountain village. This course is held every second year. It offers young scientists with a few years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry and interested Ph.D. students a broad overview of key disciplines important for modern preclinical drug research. Active participation in tutorials and a broad variety of lectures and case histories are important elements of the course (see also http://www.swiss-chem-soc.ch/events/index.cfm ).
NEWS ON ACTIVITIES FOR 2011
March 20-23, 2011: Joint German-Swiss Meeting on Medicinal Chemistry “Frontiers in Medicinal Chemistry”, Saarbrücken, Germany.
Participation in various events which will be organized to celebrate the UN International Year of Chemistry 2011.
The 14th Hellenic Symposium on Medicinal Chemistry (HSMC-14)) took place in Thessaloniki on 23-25 April, 2010 and was a successful event. It was co-organized by the Hellenic Society of Medicinal Chemistry (HSMC) and the Division of Organic and Medicinal Chemistry of the Association of Greek Chemists (DOMC-AGC). This series of Symposia follows the tradition of biannual conferences, established since more than 25 years in Greece, as a forum for the discussion of recent advances in the field of Medicinal Chemistry. For the first time HSMC-14 was an EFMC sponsored meeting with pronounced international participation, represented by invited speakers as well as oral presentations and posters from different European countries, among them, the president of EFMC Prof. Gerhard Ecker and the Council member Prof. Danjel Kikelij who also participated in the round table discussion on: Education and Research in Medicinal Chemistry: The role of Universities and the views of industry. In total there were about 150 participants who presented 5 plenary lectures; 11 main lectures 22 oral presentations and 100 posters. The Symposium attracted increased interest from a considerable number of Pharmacy and Chemistry students. A pre symposium workshop on molecular modeling (1st Hellenic Workshop on Molecular Modeling and Molecular Docking) was successfully organized for the first time.
The Symposium focused on different aspects of Medicinal Chemistry balancing from rational design, synthesis and biological evaluation of new compounds, molecular modeling and docking and drug transporters to screening and semi- or total synthesis of natural products as well as to radiopharmaceuticals. The program of the Symposium is still available on the website at www.helmedchem2010.gr
The next scientific appointment for medicinal chemists in Greece will take place in 2012 in Patras and the two organizations, the Hellenic Society of Medicinal Chemistry and the Division of Organic and Medicinal Chemistry of the AGC are already joining their efforts in setting up the 15th HSMC-2012.
