Gerhard Ecker

Interview with Gerhard Ecker, the new President of EFMC

With January the 1st, 2009, Gerhard Ecker, University of Vienna, is the new President of EFMC. In this interview, Gerhard presents the program for his presidency, and his vision on the future of Medicinal Chemistry in Europe.

By Gabriele Costantino









Conference Report

The XXth ISMC has been held in Vienna, Aug 31-Sep. 4, 2008. An overview of this extraordinarily successful event, which gathered together more than 1390 delegates, is presented.

By Antonio Macchiarulo


The first event of the Short Course on Medicinal Chemistry series was successfully held in Leiden.

By Henk Timmerman


EUROPIN – A European Pharmacoinformatics Initative

The new curriculum for a European PhD in Pharmacoinformatics will start in October. Seven Universities from 6 European countries join to provide a cutting edge training through research program in Pharmacoinformatics.

By Gerhard Ecker


EFMC Events

Also this year, EFMC is organizing exciting meetings. Don’t miss the ASMC09, in Kiev and the second Frontier in Medicinal Chemistry, Barcelona.


 

History of EFMC

In this issue, we continue the annotations on the history of the Federation (and of Medicinal Chemistry) in Europe, from its foundation to its first years. .

By Henk Timmerman


Editor

Gabriele Costantino
Univ. Parma, IT

Editorial Committee

Erden Banoglu
Gazi Univ., TR

Jordi Mestres
IMIM-UPF, ES

Wolfgang Sippl
Univ. Halle-Wittenberg, DE

Kristian Stromgaard
Univ. Copenhagen, DK

Mark Lansdell
Pfizer, UK

Executive Committee

Gerhard Ecker President
Roberto Pellicciari Past-Pres.
Koen Augustyns Secretary
Rasmus P.Clausen Treasurer
Javier Fernandez Member
Mark Bunnage Member
Peter Matyus Member

For more information please contact info@efmc.info