RSC Medicinal Chemistry Blog

Overcoming the Bottlenecks in Drug Discovery and Development
20-21 March 2014
DSIN-Ranbaxy, Gurgaon, India
http://rsc.li/rsc-dsin

• Poster abstract deadline – Coming soon, Saturday 15 February 2014!
• Registration deadline – 01 March 20014

Our next medicinal chemistry conference titled Overcoming the Bottlenecks in Drug Discovery and Development will be held in Gurgaon, India from 20-21 March 2014. This conference is co-organised by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), Daiichi Sankyo India Pharma Private Limited (DSIN) and Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited (RLL). Join  academics and industrialists from across the globe for this innovative event which will explore the current obstacles in modern drug discovery and showcase the scientific advances being used to overcome these challenges. Find out more about the speakers and programme.

We would like to take this opportunity to encourage you to submit a poster to present your work at the conference. Abstracts are invited within any of the following themes:
• Biological target identification
• Chemical hit identification
• Pharmaceutical research
• Chemical hit-to-lead optimization
Posters will be displayed throughout the meeting and a select number of poster presenters will be invited to present their research during the short oral poster session (5 minutes per presentation) which will be held on the 21 March 2014.

To register and for further information, please visit the conference webpage.

We are delighted to announce that the RSC Medicinal Chemistry Residential School, which has trained some of the world’s leading medicinal chemists in the pharmaceutical industry over the past thirty years, will return this summer.

Highly valued by the community, this intensive course aims to aid the transition from synthetic chemistry to medicinal chemistry and will explore current understanding of the factors governing modern drug discovery.

If you are a graduate or post-doctoral chemist with 1-5 years’ experience in the field of drug research or a final year PhD student in pharmacy and organic chemistry contemplating a career in medicinal chemistry, be sure to secure your place today.

For full details about the RSC Medicinal Chemistry Residential School, please visit the dedicated webpage.

Medicinal Chemistry Residential School – 17-21 June 2013, Loughborough University, UK

Spinks Symposium
Regenerative Medicine
28 January 2013
The Chemistry Centre, Burlington House, London
http://rsc.li/spinks-2013

Registration deadline – Friday 18th January 2013

This is your last chance to attend the 2013 Spinks Symposium: Regenerative Medicine as registration closes in just one week. Join us for this stimulating event which will:

• explore the critical issues that underpin developments in regenerative medicine
• provide a clear understanding of the challenges involved in translating research outputs into application
• focus on how medicinal chemistry/chemical biology research might provide a springboard to therapeutic development

Who will be there?
The 2013 Spinks symposium will bring together researchers from industry, academia and the wider medical sciences sectors for a range of inspiring presentations, case studies and discussion groups delivered by the following speakers:

• Dr Alex Alanine, F.Hoffmann-La Roche
• Dr Lilian Hook, Plasticell
• Professor Chris Mason, University College London
• Dr Angela Russell, University of Oxford
• Dr Dennis Schade, TU Dortmund
• Dr Paul Whiting, Pfizer Neusentis

 How do I register?
Secure you place using our quick and simple online booking system and don’t forget registration closes on Friday 18th January 2013. For further details on the 2013 Spinks Symposium: Regenerative Medicine, please visit the dedicated webpage.

The MedChemComm Editorial team will be attending a number of conferences in 2013 and we would be delighted to meet you there.  

We’re also the team behind MedChemComm’s sister journals Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, Natural Product Reports, and the latest addition to the portfolio, Toxicology Research, so we’ll happily discuss your interdisciplinary research work. In fact, many of our authors choose to publish their research across all of these titles.    

Here are just some of the conferences where you can meet us in the coming months:  

• RSC India Roadshow, visiting Kolkata, Pune and Bangalore – 5-11 February 2013, India – View the full details, including the confirmed speakers’ list– Meet Richard
• Society of Toxicology’s 52nd Annual Meeting –10-14 March 2013, San Antonio, Texas, USA – Meet Marie
• 40th Lakeland Heterocyclic meeting – 9-13 May 2013, Grasmere, UK – Meet Marie
• Frontiers in Medicinal Chemistry (EFMC) – 23-26 June 2013, San Francisco, USA – Meet Richard
• 8-ISMSC (International Symposium on Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry) – 07-11 July 2013, Washington DC, USA – Meet Richard
• ESOC 2013 (8th European Symposium on Organic Chemistry) – 08-12 July 2013, Marseille, France – Meet Marie
• OMCOS 17 (IUPAC Conference on Organometallic Chemistry Towards Organic Synthesis)- 28 July to 01 August 2013, Fort Collins, USA – Meet Marie
• EUROTOX 2013– 01-04 September 2013, Interlaken, Switzerland – Meet Marie
• Fall ACS meeting– 08-12 September 2013, Indianapolis, USA – Meet Richard
• Asian Medicinal Chemistry Conference – October 2013, Taipei, Taiwan – Meet Richard
• 15th BMOS – Brazilian Meeting on Organic Synthesis, 10-13 November 2013, Campos do Jordão, Brazil – Meet Richard    

Let us know if you are planning on attending any of these meetings, as it would be lovely to see you there!   

 28 January 2013 

Chemistry Centre, Burlington House, London

The therapeutic promise of regenerative medicine, as a way to restore aging or damaged tissues and organs, is one of the most exciting areas of medicines research. With the proportion of older people increasing, degenerative and chronic diseases are a major challenge. To move forward, the chemical sciences have a vital role to play in understanding

• disease mechanisms
• signalling of stem cells
• cellular differentiation
• new methodologies for surface modification

The 2013 Spinks Symposium will explore the critical issues that underpin developments in regenerative medicine and provide a clear understanding of the challenges involved in translating research outputs into application. Particular emphasis will be put on how medicinal chemistry/chemical biology research might provide a springboard to therapeutic development. Researchers from industry, academia and the wider health sciences sectors will join together for this stimulating workshop, including oral presentations discussion groups, flash presentations and a comprehensive poster session.

How can I get involved?

• Abstracts for the poster programme are now invited. Take full advantage of this exceptional opportunity to present your work and submit before Friday 21st December.
• Registration is also open and if you would like to benefit from the early bird rates be sure to secure your place before Friday 21st December