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AIM OF THE SYMPOSIUM
The YRFM Young Research Fellows Meeting is an initiative of the French Medicinal Chemistry Society (SCT). The 25th edition in Orleans gathered 250 young participants from Europe. The 26th edition will take place at the School of Pharmacy in Paris (during three days February, 20-22, 2019).
This meeting brings together young European scientists (PhD students, post-doctoral fellows and young academic/industrial confirmed researchers) and gives them the opportunity to present and discuss the latest innovations and future trends in Medicinal Chemistry.
The topics will cover all aspects of research in medicinal chemistry: the research and validation of biological targets of therapeutic interest, screening, design, optimization and selection of drug candidates, chemical biology, medicinal chemistry, pharmacokinetics, metabolism and toxicity (ADME-T: absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion, toxicity).
Many prestigious prizes will be attributed (SCT, ACS, EFMC, MDPI) for best oral communications, and posters.
The 2019 PLENARY CONFERENCES
Gilles Guichard (IECB, Bordeaux): Foldamers for mimicking and engineering the backbone of biologically active peptides.
Gilles Pagès (IRCAN, Nice): New therapeutic approaches in resistant kidney cancer care.
Fernanda Borges (Faculté de Pharmacie, Porto): Drug discovery and neurodegenerative diseases: time for a change of tack.
Chantal Andraud (ENS, Lyon): Biphotonic molecules in the service of biophotonics.
Emmanuel Mikros (Faculté de Pharmacie, Athènes), highlighted as an EFMC Lecture: Using advanced and analytical tools for efficient discovery of new bioactive compounds
Souad Ammar (Paris-Diderot University, France): Colloidal chemistry for dual magnetic resonance and optical imaging probe processing: luminescent béta-NaY0.8Ln0.2F4 (Ln = Eu, Er…) nanoparticle coated by a superparamagnetic gamma-Fe2O3 polycrystalline shell as a case study.
Young senior researchers will also present their work during keynote lectures:
Cyril Ronco (ICN, Nice), awarded in 2019 by SCT (SCT Award for young investigator in medicinal chemistry) : ER Stress inducers targeting resistant cancers
Bart Roman (University of Ghent, Belgium): Pharmacology of motor proteins: a fast-moving field.
Steeve Huvelle (Faculty of Pharmacy, Tours, France): Original site-specific antibody-drug conjugates.
In coordination with the European COST action MuTaLig, a specific session will be devoted to multi-targeted drugs on Friday afternoon, with lectures from:
Stefano Alcaro (University of Catanzaro, Italy): From the MuTaLig COST Action to the Net4Science academic spin-off: one evolution branch of a research project for multi-target drug discovery.
Danijel Kikelj (University of Lubjana, Slovenia): Discovery of dual gyrase A/gyrase B inhibitors with antibacterial activity.
Eugenio Gaudio (Istitute of Oncology Research, Bellinzona, Swizzerland): Selection of biological targets and assessments of biological data: a case study.
Hanoch Senderowitz (Bar Ilan University, Tel Aviv, Israel): Computational tools for multi-target drug discovery.
Saron Bryant (Inte:Ligand, Vienna, Austria): Advanced 3D-pharmacophores & the MuTaLig chemoteca: enhancing virtual screening efficacity in multitarget drug discovery.
Confirmed round table
How to get European funds ? (Marie Curie fellowships, ERC starting grants… the European H2020 grants).
Awards: The best oral communications/posters will receive an award allowing young scientists in attending international meetings.
Please feel free to contact the organizing committee:
young.medchem@sct-asso.fr
26th Young Research Fellows meeting
20-22 February 2019
Faculté de Pharmacie de Paris
Université Paris-Descartes
France
