Advances in Drug Discovery Research in Europe
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Medicinal Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2023) | Viewed by 2050
Special Issue Editors
Interests: medicinal chemistry; organic chemistry; neurodegenerative diseases; bioactive compounds and drug design; toxicology
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Interests: drug discovery; multitarget-directed ligands; neurodegenerative diseases; infectious diseases; biological and toxicological screenings
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: drug discovery; nanomedicine; ADME-Tox; neurodegenerative; infectious diseases; antioxidants
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Over the last few years, new technological and scientific developments have been revolutionizing the drug discovery process. Phenotypic and target-based medium-to-high-throughput screening of compound libraries are currently the main technologies used to identify new hit compounds. However, they have been recently employed in combination with techniques founded in genomics, molecular and structural biology and molecular modeling, enabling not only the design of better and safer compounds, but also the understanding of fundamental cellular and molecular mechanisms in different disease states.
In the present Special Issue, we invite authors based in Europe to submit research articles enclosing a wide range of topics in the field of drug discovery, including, but not limited to, the design and synthesis of new chemical entities, biological and toxicological screenings with synthetic or natural compounds and development of drug delivery systems. High-quality reviews in the field will also be accepted.
Dr. Sofia Benfeito
Dr. Daniel Chavarria
Prof. Dr. Fernanda Borges
Dr. Fernando Cagide
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- antibiotics
- anti-inflammatory agents
- cancer
- cardiovascular diseases
- diabetes
- drug delivery
- enzyme inhibition
- infectious diseases
- nanosystems/nanomaterials
- natural compounds
- neurodegenerative diseases
- new chemical entities
- pharmacokinetics/pharmacodynamics
- single-target and multitarget-directed ligands
- structure–activity relationships
- structure–property relationships
- structure–toxicity relationships
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