RSC Medicinal Chemistry Blog

The MedChemComm team will be attending a number of conferences in 2011 and we would be delighted to meet you.

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

• Antibiotics: Where are we now? – 20th January, London, UK – Meet Lorena
• Zing Natural Products – 13th-16th February, Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt – Meet Richard
• Lakeland Heterocyclic meeting, May – Grasmere, UK – Meet Lorena
• ACS National Organic Symposium – 5th – 9th June – Princeton, US – Meet Richard
• Frontiers in Medicinal Chemistry Meeting: Emerging Targets, Novel Candidates and Innovative Strategies– 19th-21st July – Stockholm, Sweden – Meet Richard
• International Symposium on Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry (ISMSC) – 3rd-7th July, Brighton, UK – Meet Lorena
• European Symposium on Organic Chemistry – 10th-15th July, Crete, Greece – Meet Lorena
• 22nd International Symposium: Synthesis in Organic Chemistry – 11th-14th July, Cambridge, UK – Meet Richard
• OMCOS 16 – 24th-28th July – Shanghai, China – Meet Richard
• GRC Medicinal Chemistry – 7th – 12th August – New Hampshire, US – Meet Lorena
• 4th International Symposium on Advances in Synthetic and Medicinal Chemistry – 21st-25th August, St Petersburg, Russia – Meet Lorena
• 242nd Meeting of the American Chemical Society- 27th – 31st August, Denver, US – Meet Richard
• 16th RSC-SCI Medicinal Chemistry meeting – 11th-14th September, Cambridge, UK – Meet Lorena

Please let us know if you are planning on attending any of these meetings as it would be lovely to meet you there.

The MedChemComm UK-China Symposium took place last month. The Symposium, organised by MedChemComm and the RSC International Programme, took place on the 22nd November at the Chemistry Centre in London.

Professor Zhenjun Yang presenting at the symposium

A great line-up of speakers gave presentations on topics from across the broad spectrum of medicinal chemistry. Dr Jason Wong (Roche R&D Centre, China) started off the day with his work on the development of a novel epigenetic modulator for hepatocellular carcinoma. Jason was followed by MedChemComm Editorial Board member Dr Mark Bunnage (Pfizer, UK), who talked about small molecule modulators of stem cells, and then Professor Zhenjun Yang (Peking University, China) reporting chemically modified siRNAs and their biological properties.

Dr Rich Soll (WuXi AppTec, China) opened up after lunch describing collaborative medicinal chemistry at WuXi AppTec, followed by Professor Paul Wyatt (University of Dundee, UK) describing some of his recent work developing antiparasitic leads. Rounding off the day were Professor Fa-Jun Nan (Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, CAS, China), speaking about a hepatitis B inhibitor derived from a marine natural product, and Professor Chris Abell (University of Cambridge, UK), who spoke about anti-tuberculosis natural products.

Dr Richard Pike, CEO of the Royal Society of Chemistry and Professor Jingkang Shen, representing the Chinese Pharmaceutical Association, exchange gifts

Many thanks to the organising committee, the symposium sponsors – Pfizer and AstraZeneca – and everyone who attended.

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The MedChemComm team will be attending a number of conferences in 2011 and we would be delighted to meet you.

Here’s where you can meet us in the coming months:

• Antibiotics: Where are we now? – 20th January, London, UK – Meet Lorena
• Zing Natural Products – 13th-16th February, Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt – Meet Richard
• Lakeland Heterocyclic meeting, May – Grasmere, UK – Meet Lorena
• Frontiers in Medicinal Chemistry Meeting: Emerging Targets, Novel Candidates and Innovative Strategies– 19th-21st July – Stockholm, Sweden – Meet Richard
• International Symposium on Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry (ISMSC) – 3rd-7th July, Brighton, UK – Meet Lorena
• European Symposium on Organic Chemistry – 10th-15th July, Crete, Greece – Meet Lorena
• 22nd International Symposium: Synthesis in Organic Chemistry – 11th-14th July, Cambridge, UK – Meet Richard
• OMCOS 16 – 24th-28th July – Shanghai, China – Meet Richard
• 4th International Symposium on Advances in Synthetic and Medicinal Chemistry – 21st-25th August, St Petersburg, Russia – Meet Lorena
• 16th RSC-SCI Medicinal Chemistry meeting – 11th-14th September, Cambridge, UK – Meet Lorena

Please let us know if you are planning on attending any of these meetings as it would be lovely to meet you there.