European School of Medicinal Chemistry ESMEC
42nd Advanced Course of Medicinal Chemistry and Seminar for PhD students

Urbino, Palazzo Battiferri, Via Saffi, 42

July 2 – 6, 2023

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:

PHARMACOMICROBIOMICS: THE COMPLEX WORLD OF DRUG-MICROBIOME INTERACTIONS

Francesca LEMBO, University of Naples Federico II (I)

Silvia TURRONI, University of Bologna (I)

Saskia VAN MIL, Center for Molecular Medicine, UMC Utrecht (NL)
 

MECHANOCHEMISTRY: A SUSTAINABLE TOOL TO NAVIGATE THE UNCHARTED CHEMICAL SPACE

Tomislav FRIŠČIĆ, University of Birmingham (UK)

Evelina COLACINO, Université de Montpellier, Institut Charles Gerhardt (ICGM) (F)

Duncan BROWNE, UCL University College London (UK)

Lucia MAINI, University of Bologna (I)

Andrea PORCHEDDU, University of Cagliari (I) Workshop

PREVENTING THE TURN! ATROPISOMERISM IN DRUG DISCOVERY

José M. LASSALETTA, Centro de Innovaciónen Química Avanzada Sevilla (ES)

Anna-Carin C. CARLSSON, AstraZeneca Gothenburg, Molndal (SE)

Silvia CAPACCHI, Chiesi Farmaceutici SpA, Parma (I)

Thomas FUCHSS, Merck KGaA, Darmstadt (D)

 

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE BASED RETROSYNTHESIS Workshop

Teodoro Laino, IBM Research Zurich (CH)

Market Watch: New Drug Approval in 2022 and Synthetic Strategies

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

OPEN CALL: 3rd Edition of ESMEC ALUMNI AWARD

Deadlines

ESMEC Fellowships: May 31

ESMEC Alumni Award: May 31

Registration and Abstract Submission: June 11

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, ABAC Therapeutics, 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