European School of Medicinal Chemistry ESMEC
43rd Advanced Course of Medicinal Chemistry and Seminar for PhD students

Urbino, Palazzo Battiferri, Via Saffi, 42

June 30 – July 4, 2024

 

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.

This Year the Scientific Programme includes the following topics

MAKE IT UNBREAKABLE! COVALENT APPROACH IN DRUG DISCOVERY

Alessio LODOLA, University of Parma (IT)

Chiara BORSARI, University of Milan (IT)

Annamaria MARTORANA, University of Palermo (IT)
Francesco CASUSCELLI, Nerviano Medical Sciences Srl (IT)

CLICK-AND-TAG: HOW BIOORTHOGONAL CHEMISTRY IS TRANSFORMING DRUG DISCOVERY

Milan VRABEL, Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academi of Sciences (CZ)
Anja PALMANS, Eindhoven University of Technology (NL)
Helen OSBORN, University of Reading (UK)
Frédéric TARAN, Paris-Saclay University (FR)

UNUSUAL ELEMENTS AND FUNCTIONAL GROUPS SHAPING THE FUTURE OF MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY

Evamarie HEY-HAWKINS, Leipzig University (DE)
Jack ROWBOTHAM, University of Manchester (UK)
Gian Cesare TRON, University of Piemonte Orientale (IT)
Mauro ADAMO, University of Medicine and Health Science, Dublin (IE)

Market Watch: New Drug Approval in 2023 and Synthetic Strategies

Tiziano BANDIERA, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova (IT)

REGISTRATION IS OPEN 

Deadlines

Deadlines will be announced soon

Partners

Committees

Scientific Committee

Marco Macchia, University of Pisa (Director)
Andrea Cavalli, University of Bologna
Stephanie Federico, University of Trieste
Antimo Gioiello, University of Perugia
Paolo Grieco, University of Naples
Gianluca Papeo, Nerviano Medical Sciences S.r.l.
Tracey Pirali, University of Piemonte Orientale
Beatriz De Pasqual-Teresa, University of San Pablo Ceu
Gilberto Spadoni, University of Urbino Carlo Bo

Organizing Committee

Annalida Bedini
Lucia Bedini, Treasurer
Andrea Duranti
Simone Lucarini
Michele Mari
Francesca Bartoccini

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