Editorial

Dear Colleague,

with the first issue of MedChemWatch, the official EFMC e-newsletter, the European Federation for Medicinal Chemistry makes the next step towards increasing its impact on the medicinal chemistry community. MedChemWatch will provide you with regular updates on the activity of our committees, give information on EFMC-approved schools and EFMC-sponsored meetings, and alert you on calls for medicinal chemistry related grants and funding opportunities. Furthermore, in each issue you will find a perspective article from a leading scientist and the presentation of a medicinal chemistry research group in Europe.

With MedChemWatch we intend to provide more than just one of those e-mails announcing the next meeting and promoting some activities. This should become a forum for exchange of ideas, thoughts, and visions for the future of Medicinal Chemistry, accompanied by useful information on events, grants, and news from our member societies.

I would like to thank all the members of the Editorial Board for their excellent work and continuous input, and I would also like to express my deepest gratitude to pupilla grafik for the excellent layout and to Antalys sprl for all the technical implementation.

We hope you enjoy reading this issue and are looking forward to your favourable response.

Gerhard Ecker
Editor