European School of Medicinal Chemistry ESMEC
41st Advanced Course of Medicinal Chemistry and Seminar for PhD students

Urbino, Palazzo Battiferri, Via Saffi, 42

July 3 – 7, 2022

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 Program includes the following topics:

NEW MODALITIES FOR TARGETING CHALLENGING PROTEINS

Stefan KNAPP – Structural Genomic Consortium Oxford, Frankfurt University  (D)
Pietro PICCONI – Nerviano Medical Sciences, Nerviano (I)
Cristina MAYOR-RUIZ – Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Barcelona  (ES)
Andrew PIKE – AstraZeneca, Cambridge (UK)

VIRTUAL REALITY IN MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY (Workshop)

Paolo GRIECO – University of Naples (I)
Andrea CAVALLI – University of Bologna (I)
Giovanni BOTTEGONI – University of Urbino (I)

Market Watch: New Drug Approval in 2021 and Synthetic Strategies
Tiziano BANDIERA – Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia – Genova (I)

ELECTROCHEMISTRY IN DRUG DISCOVERY

Massimo MARCACCIO – University of Bologna (I)
Kevin LAM – University of Greenwich (UK)
Lutz ACKERMANN – Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (D)
Nessa CARSON – Syngenta, (UK)

RARE DISEASES AND ORPHAN DRUGS

Armando GENAZZANI – University of Piemonte Orientale (I)
Gijs VAN HAAFTEN – Utrecht University (NL)
Angela RUSSELL – University of Oxford (UK)
Francesco MACCHIA – Rare-Lab (I)

As Special event will be held:

  • an Open Webinar titled “Covid and Science”

  • the Second Edition of the “ESMEC Alumni Award” send your application HERE

Deadlines

– Both deadlines of Esmec fellowships and Alumni awards have been postponed to: May 23, 2022

– Deadline for PhD students Abstract Submission: June 10, 2022

– Deadline for Registration: May 31, 2022

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
Antoni Torrens Jover, Welab, Barcelona
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