Editorial Board for section 'Medicinal Chemistry'

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School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute, Trinity College Dublin, 152−160 Pearse Street, D02 R590 Dublin, Ireland
Interests: drug development; antiestrogens; in silico; breast cancer; design and synthesis, synthetic methods; amphetamines; anticancer drug design; carbapenem antibiotics; chemistry of drug metabolism; chemistry of drug receptor interactions; design and synthesis of drugs; molecular modelling of estrogen receptor antagonists; pharmacologically active heterocycles
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Department of Pharmacy, G. d’Annunzio University, 66100 Chieti, Italy
Interests: medicinal chemistry; drug discovery; aromatase inhibitors; PPAR ligands; anticancer agents
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Dipartimento di Scienze della Salute, Università “Magna Graecia” di Catanzaro, Campus “Salvatore Venuta”, Viale Europa, 88100 Catanzaro, Italy
Interests: drug design; molecular modeling; molecular dynamics; virtual screening; pharmacophore modeling; drug repurposing; natural products
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Institut des Sciences Chimiques de Rennes (ISCR), UMR CNRS 6226, Groupe CORINT, Université de Rennes 1 (UR1), Campus de Beaulieu, Bât. 10A, 263 Avesnue du Général Leclerc, CS 74205, 35042 Rennes CEDEX, France
Interests: microwave-assisted organic chemistry and scale-up; “Store Operated Calcium Entry” inhibitors (Orai1) for cancer via Délikine program inhibitors; mitochondrial ion channel inhibitors for cancer; protein kinase (PKs) inhibitors for CNS (Alzheimer’s disease and Down syndrome) via Leucettine program inhibitors; fluorescence probes for studies of molecular mechanisms in cancer biology
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INSA Rouen Normandie, Univ. Rouen Normandie, CNRS UMR 6014 COBRA, FR 3038, F-76000 Rouen, France
Interests: chemistry of heterocyclic compounds; microwave-assisted chemistry; sustainable methodologies; green chemistry applied to bioactive compounds: kinase inhibitors; Alzheimer's disease; down syndrome; cancer
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Department of Chemistry, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, 11 Carol I Blvd., 700506 Iasi, Romania
Interests: organic synthesis; drug design and development; sulfur compounds; cyclophanes; flavonoids; acetylenes; allenes

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Landspitali-The National University Hospital of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
Interests: gastroenterology; hepatology; drug-induced liver injury; gastrointestinal bleeding; liver cirrhosis; pancreatitis

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1. Klinik für Neurologie, Uniklinikum Essen, Essen, Germany
2. MediClin Klinik Reichshof, Reichshof, Germany
Interests: cerebrovascular diseases such ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke, SAH, different forms of hydrocephali, the blood-brain barrier and the so-called glymphatic system

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Department of Pharmacy, University of Genoa, Viale Benedetto XV 3, 16132 Genoa, Italy
Interests: medicinal chemistry; drug discovery; small molecules; antitumor agents; kinase inhibitors; synthetic lethality
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Department of Biological, Chemical, and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technologies (STEBICEF), University of Palermo, Via Archirafi 32, 90123 Palermo, Italy
Interests: protein kinases; biofilm; antitumor agents; antibacterial agents
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Department of Neuroscience, Psychology, Drug Research and Child Health (NEUROFARBA), Section of Pharmaceutical and Nutraceutical Sciences, University of Florence, Via Ugo Schiff, 6, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, FI, Italy
Interests: medicinal chemistry; rational drug design; heterocyclic compounds; structure–activity relationships; adenosine receptor ligands; carbonic anhydrase inhibitors; protein kinase CK1 and CK2 inhibitors; ecto-5'-nucleotidase (CD73) inhibitors
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Center for Drug Design, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Interests: medicinal chemistry; fragment-based drug design; structure-based drug design; antiviral agents; anti-cancer agents; methyltransferase inhibitors; sirtuin inhibitors; histone deacetylase inhibitors; nucleosides; nucleotides

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Laboratório de Química Orgânica e Farmacêutica, Departamento de Ciências Químicas, Faculdade de Farmácia, Universidade do Porto, Rua Jorge Viterbo Ferreira n° 228, 4050-313 Porto, Portugal
Interests: medicinal chemistry; organic synthesis; drug discovery; anticancer activity; antimicrobial activity; chiral drugs; natural products
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Department of Neuroscience, Psychology, Drug Research and Child Health (NEUROFARBA), Section of Pharmaceutical and Nutraceutical Sciences, University of Florence, Via Ugo Schiff, 6, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, FI, Italy
Interests: medicinal chemistry; rational drug design; heterocyclic compounds; structure–activity relationships; adenosine receptor ligands; carbonic anhydrase inhibitors; protein kinase CK1 and CK2 inhibitors; ecto-5'-nucleotidase (CD73) inhibitors
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1. Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy, University of Algarve, 8005-139 Faro, Portugal
2. Center of Marine Sciences - CCMar, University of Algarve, 8005-139 Faro, Portugal
Interests: physical organic chemistry; organic reactivity; medicinal chemistry; bioactive heterocyclic compounds; antiparasitic compounds

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1. Instituto de Química Médica—CSIC, Madrid, Spain
2. Medicinal Chemistry Institute—Spanish Council for Scientific Research, Madrid, Spain
Interests: medicinal chemistry; design and synthesis of antiparasitic agents for neglected tropical diseases (trypanosomiasis, leishmaniasis, malaria); cationic compounds; DNA binding study; pKa measurement
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Department of Drug Science and Technology, University of Turin, via P.Giuria 9, 10125 Torino, Italy
Interests: medicinal chemistry; pharmaceutical analysis; drug discovery; Alzheimer’s Disease; ADME

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Medicinal Chemistry Unit, School of Pharmacy, University of Camerino, 62032 Camerino, Italy
Interests: receptor chemistry; drug discovery; biologically active ligands; structure-activity relationship studies
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Department of Pharmacology, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, PA 17033, USA
Interests: synthesis; chemopreventive agent; chemotherapeutic agent; environmental carcinogens; in vitro and in vivo studies; leukemia; melanoma; colon cancer
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Faculty of Engineering, Università Campus Biomedico di Roma, Via Alvaro del Portillo, 21-00128 Rome, Italy
Interests: medicinal chemistry; natural products; drug discovery & design; computational biology; allosteric drugs

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Laboratory of Chimie Moléculaire et Environnement - LCME, University Savoie Mont Blanc, F-73000 Chambéry, France
Interests: sonochemistry; green organic chemistry; catalysis; ionic liquids; biomass valorization; hydrometallurgy; strategic metal electrodeposition

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Centro de Química Estrutural, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal
Interests: chemical toxicology; drug design; MS-based OMICS; biomarkers; organic synthesis; epigenetic drugs; HK2 inhibitors; drug repurposing
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Latvian Institute of Organic Synthesis, Division of Chemical, Biological and Medical Sciences, Latvian Academy of Sciences, Aizkraukles 21, LV 1006 Rīga, Latvia
Interests: heterocyclic chemistry (partially hydrogenated azines: dihydro- (tetrahydro-) pyridines, pyrimidines, polycyclic derivatives) - studies of chemical and biological properties; medicinal chemistry (synthesis and studies of cardiovascular, antioxidative, membrane protective, radioprotective, UV-protective agents)

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Faculté de Pharmacie, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Campus Plaine CP 205/5, 1050 Brussels, Belgium
Interests: medicinal chemistry; organic synthesis; asymmetric synthesis
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Department of Biomolecular Sciences, University of Urbino Carlo Bo, 61029 Urbino, PU, Italy
Interests: medicinal chemistry; drug design; cannabinoids; sugar-based surfactants

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Department of Pharmacy, University of Naples Federico II, Via D. Montesano 49, 80131 Naples, Italy
Interests: synthetic medicinal chemistry; serotoninergic ligands; anticancer agents

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Centro de Química Estrutural, Instituto Superior Técnico - Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
Interests: organic chemistry; tetrazoles, thiazoles and thiadiazoles; nitrogen ligands; organocatalysis; metal catalysis; selective chelators for metals on biological medium; leads for cancer chemotherapy
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Department of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Vienna, A-1090 Vienna, Austria
Interests: bioinorganic chemistry; medicinal chemistry; anticancer agents; platinum-based anticancer drugs; synthesis, characterization, NMR spectroscopy and cytotoxicity of platinum complexes; drug targeting strategies

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Istituto di Chimica Biomolecolare-CNR, Via Campi Flegrei, 34, 80078 Pozzuoli, Italy
Interests: drug discovery; bioactive compounds; small molecules; anticancer activity; medicinal chemistry; synthesis; structure–activity relationships; anti-inflammatory agents; mPGES-1 inhibitors; prostaglandin E2 biosynthesis; epigenetic drugs; BRD9; JMJD3 inhibitors; erbB4 inhibitors
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