European School of Medicinal Chemistry ESMEC
44th Advanced Course of Medicinal Chemistry and Seminar for PhD students
Urbino, Palazzo Battiferri, Via Saffi, 42
June 29 – July 3, 2025
The mission of the ESMEC is to provide participants, PhD students and junior researchers from both academia and industry, with the most recent advances in the field of medicinal and organic chemistry, pharmacology, molecular biology and analytical/ structural chemistry. This idea is aimed to reflect the current scenario of medicinal chemistry being a truly transdisciplinary approach, where the advances in knowledge are driven by the medicinal chemist’s ability to translate into new molecular concepts and into novel molecular entities the amount of information created by molecular medicine, pharmacology, molecular biology, systems biology.
For these reasons, the School is directed to participants at a graduated and post-graduated level, in chemistry but also in pharmacology or biology, who are keen to explore the interdisciplinary context of current cutting-edge research in medicinal chemistry.
To achieve these very ambitious goals, the School is organized into thematic sessions, each of them constructed around a series of lectures, followed by practical workshops.
The theme of the 2025’s edition will be:
Medicinal Chemistry opportunities in ultra-large chemical spaces
This Year the Scientific Programme will include:
OPENING LECTURE
Russell Thomas – Symeres (NL)
EXPANDING THE SEARCH: IN SILICO MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY IN THE AGE OF BILLION-SCALE LIBRARY
Barbara ZDRAZIL – European Bioinformatics Institute (UK)
Andreas BENDER – University of Cambridge (UK)
Albert ANTOLIN – Institut d’Investigació Biomèdica de Bellvitge (E)
Emanuele CAROSATI – Università Degli Studi Di Trieste (I)
HIT IDENTIFICATION FROM (ULTRA)LARGE LIBRARIES: FROM BIOCHEMICAL TO IN VIVO ASSAYS
Brinton SEASHORE-LUDLOW – Karolinska Institute (SE)
Barbara PIOSELLI – Chiesi (I)
Riccardo MIGGIANO – Università del Piemonte Orientale (I)
Valeria COLICCHIA – IRBM (I)
Tania WHITFIELD – University of Sheffield (UK)
INNOVATIVE SYNTHETIC APPROACHES TO EXPLORE THE CHEMICAL SPACE
Jonas BOSTRÖM – Treeline Biosciences (US)
Renzo LUISI – University of Bari (I)
Jeffrey W. BODE – ETH Zurich (CH)
Maria Teresa GIUSTINIANO – University of Naples Federico II (I)
MARKET WATCH: NEW DRUG APPROVAL IN 2024 AND SYNTHETIC STRATEGIES
Tiziano BANDIERA – Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genoa (I)
Information for Registration and Deadlines will be soon published
Partners
Committees
Scientific Committee
Gabriele Costantino, University of Parma (Director)
Laura Carzaniga, Chiesi Farmaceutici S.p.a.
Sandro Cosconati, University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli
Stephanie Federico, University of Trieste
Antimo Gioiello, University of Perugia
Enza Lacivita, University of Bari Aldo Moro
Marco Lucio Lolli, University of Torino
Beatriz De Pascual-Teresa, University of San Pablo Ceu
Giovanni Bottegoni, University of Urbino Carlo Bo
Organizing Committee
Lucia Bedini, Treasurer
Andrea Duranti
Gian Marco Elisi
Simone Lucarini
Michele Mari
Michele Retini
Organizing Office
Dipartimento di Scienze Biomolecolari
University of Urbino Carlo Bo
Piazza Rinascimento, 6
61029 Urbino (PU) ITALY
tel. +39 0722 304551 / +39 0722 303323
fax. +39 0722 303313
E-mail: lucia.bedini@uniurb.it