
8th International Electronic Conference on Medicinal Chemistry
Part of the International Electronic Conference on Medicinal Chemistry series
1–30 Nov 2022



Medicinal Chemistry, Pharmaceuticals, Drug
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Welcome from the Chairs
Dear Colleagues,
Following the great success of the previous editions organized under the excellent chairmanship of Dr. Jean Jacques Vanden Eynde, we are pleased to cordially invite you to join us at 8th International Electronic Conference on Medicinal Chemistry, sponsored by the MDPI open access journal Pharmaceuticals. This platform seeks to provide a discussion forum for scientists from all over the world for recent developments and innovative ideas in Medicinal Chemistry. This will give students, researchers, and experts the opportunity to share their latest theories, results, models, and applications in this multidisciplinary area of knowledge. This is an entirely on-line conference that will be held during the month of November at https://ecmc2022.sciforum.net/. No registration fee is charged to participants, and there is the added advantage that there is no cost of flights, hotels, etc.
The conference will be organized around the aims and scope of the journal Pharmaceuticals, which include the following general topics:
Small molecules as drug candidates
Biomolecules, natural products, phages, and cells as therapeutic tools
Biological targets and biomarkers
Radiopharmaceutical sciences, radiochemistry, (hybrid) imaging, and nuclear medicine
Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics
Pharmaceutical preparations and drug delivery
The format of the conference is as follows. Researchers are invited to provide a short abstract (250 words maximum without figures and without references) online at https://sciforum.net/user/submission from now until 21 September 2022. Each participant can submit only one abstract as a presenting author and a maximum of three submissions per research group. All authors will be notified by 1 October 2022 with regard to the acceptance status of their abstract, at which point they will be asked to present their work (in English) in the form of a poster, a slideshow, or a video using the templates provided by the conference (see Instructions for Authors). All accepted submissions will be displayed online, open for discussion, comments, and questions, during the entire conference, at https://ecmc2022.sciforum.net/, on 1–30 November 2022.
All participants will be invited to submit a full paper describing their work, which would be peer reviewed and, upon acceptance, published in a Special Issue covering the event in Pharmaceuticals, ISSN 1424-8247) sponsor of the conference. A 20% discount on the Article Processing Charge will be applied.
The most outstanding works, as selected by the scientific committee, will be rewarded with grants offered by the sponsoring journal Pharmaceuticals.
We look forward to engaging in exciting discussions and hearing new ideas and perspectives from experts in the field. All participants are welcome to join the online conference.
Kind regards,
Dr. Alfredo Berzal-Herranz
Prof. Dr. Maria Emília Sousa
Call for Participations
The members of the Scientific Committee are pleased to announce this Call for Participation for the 8th International Electronic Conference on Medicinal Chemistry and to invite each researcher working in the exciting fields of medicinal chemistry and drug-related sciences to share their recent results with their colleagues all over the world.
The Conference will cover a wide range of aspects involved in drug discovery and development. A non-exhaustive list of topics that will be considered includes:
- ADMET
- Animal experimentation
- Assay development
- Biomarkers
- Biomolecules
- Biosensors
- Biotechnology
- Chemical synthesis
- Clinical studies and side effects reports
- Combinatorial chemistry
- Drug delivery (including bioconjugates and prodrugs)
- High throughput screening
- Hit identification
- Imaging techniques
- In silico experiments
- In vitro and in vivo studies
- Lead optimization
- Omics
- Pharmaceutical analysis
- Scale-up
- Structure–activity relationships
Participation in the 8th International Electronic Conference on Medicinal Chemistry is absolutely free of charge for contributors and visitors. Researchers are invited to provide a short abstract (250 words maximum without figures and without references) online at https://www.sciforum.net/login from now until 21 September 2022. Each participant can submit only one abstract as a presenting author and a maximum of three submissions per research group. Authors will be notified before 1 October with regard to the acceptance status of their abstract, at which point the author(s) will be asked to present their work (in English) in the form of a poster, a slideshow, or a video using the templates provided by the conference (see Instructions for Authors). All accepted submissions will be displayed online, at https://ecmc2022.sciforum.net/, on 1–30 November 2022.
Authors will be invited to publish their work as a review or a research article at a discounted price, in a Special Issue of the journal Pharmaceuticals.
The Scientific Committee looks forward to receiving contributions in response to this call and will be glad to provide any further information to interested parties. Questions may be addressed to the Pharmaceuticals editorial office at [email protected].
We thank you in advance for your attendance to this conference and look forward to a stimulating exchange.
Submission Guidelines
For information about the submission procedure and the preparation of a full presentation, please refer to the "Instructions for Authors".
Event Chairs

Dr. Alfredo Berzal-Herranz
Department of Molecular Biology, Instituto de Parasitología y Biomedicina López-Neyra, (IPBLN-CSIC), Spain

Prof. Dr. Maria Emília Sousa
Laboratório de Química Orgânica e Farmacêutica, Departamento de Ciências, Químicas, Faculdade de Farmácia, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Event Committee

Prof. Dr. Mary J. Meegan
School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Prof. Dr. Amélia Pilar Rauter
Departamento de Química e Bioquímica (DQB) e Centro de Química e Bioquímica (CQB), Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa (FCUL), Rua Ernesto de Vasconcelos, Campo Grande, Portugal

Dr. Daniela De Vita
Department of Environmental Biology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Dr. Irina Velikyan
Science for Life Laboratory, Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Uppsala University, Sweden

Dr. Klaus Kopka
Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) e.V., Institute of Radiopharmaceutical Cancer Research, Germany

Prof. Dr. Joachim Jose
PharmaCampus Institute of Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Germany

Dr. Guangshun Wang
Department of Pathology & Microbiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, USA

Prof. Dr. Osvaldo Andrade Santos-Filho
Center of Health Sciences, Laboratory of Molecular Modeling and Computational Structural Biology, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Prof. Dr. Jessica Rosenholm
Pharmaceutical Sciences Laboratory, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Åbo Akademi University, Finland

Prof. Dr. Rosa Amoroso
Department of Pharmacy, University of Chieti, Italy

Dr. Jong Heon Kim
Foodborne Toxin Detection and Prevention Research Unit, Western Regional Research Center, USDA‐ARS, 800 Buchanan St., Albany, CA 94710, USA

Dr. Cristina Romero-López
Department of Molecular Biology, Instituto de Parasitología y Biomedicina López-Neyra (IPBLN-CSIC), PTS Granada, Av. Conocimiento, Granada, Spain
Invited Speakers

Dr. Cecilia Bombelli
Institute for Biological System, Secondary office of Rome-Reaction Mechanisms, c/o Chemistry Dept Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

Dr. Ana Marta Matos
Center of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Prof. Dr. Daniela Gonçales Galasse Rando
Grupo de Pesquisas Químico-Farmacêuticas, GPQFfesp, Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Institute of Environmental, Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil

Prof. Dr. Gill Diamond
Department Oral Immunology and Infectious Diseases, School of Dentistry, University of Louisville, USA

Prof. Dr. Monique van Hoek
Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, School of Systems Biology, George Mason University, USA

Prof. Dr. Marcel Bermúdez
Theoretical Medicinal Chemistry, Institute of Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Germany

Dr. Anna Junker
Group of Receptor Ligands for Molecular Imaging, European Institute for Molecular Imaging (EIMI), Muenster University, Germany

Dr. Macarena Sánchez Navarro
Group of Chemical biology of peptides and proteins, Department of Molecular Biology, Instituto de Parasitologia y Biomedicina "Lopez-Neyra" Spain

Prof. Dr. Isabel Almeida
UCIBIO/REQUIMTE, Associate Laboratory i4HB - Institute for Health and Bioeconomy, MedTech-Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Technology, Department of Drug Sciences, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Porto, Portugal

Prof. Dr. Magaly Girão Albuquerque
IQ, Laboratório de Modelagem Molecular (LabMMol) - Sala 609, Departamento de Química Orgânica, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Cidade Universitária, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Dr. Tim O'Sullivan
School of Pharmacy and School of Chemistry, University College Cork, Ireland

Dr. Parthiban Marimuthu
Docent in Structural Biology and Computational Biochemistry, Pharmaceutical Sciences Laboratory & Structural Bioinformatics Laboratory, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Åbo Akademi University, Finland

Prof. Dr. Isabel Rosas
School of Chemistry, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Instructions for Authors
Submission should be completed online by the authors by registering with https://sciforum.net/ and using the “Start New Submission” function once logged into the system.
- Scholars interested in participating in the conference can submit their abstract (250 words maximum without figures and without references) online at this website until 21 September 2022.
- Based on the submitted abstract, the conference committee will conduct a pre-evaluation of whether a contribution from the authors of the abstract will be welcome for 8th International Electronic Conference on Medicinal Chemistry. All authors will be notified by 1 October 2022 with regard to the acceptance status of their abstract.
- If the abstract is accepted for this conference, the author will be invited to prepare a full description of their work in the form of a poster, slideshow, or video at their best convenience, until the submission deadline of 12 October 2022.
- Posters must be uploaded as a PDF file using the Poster_template.pptx file available at the end of this section.
- Slideshows must be uploaded as a PDF file using the PPT_template.pptx file available at the end of this section.
- Flash communications (5 minutes) and communications (10-20 minutes) must be uploaded as an mp4 file (video) using the PPT_template.pptx file available at the end of this section.
This must be uploaded before 12 October 2022, for a final check and approval. Each work will be directed to the appropriate panel (posters, slideshows, flash communications, communications) by the Conference Office.
Contributions will be displayed on the website using Sciforum.net’s proprietary slides viewer and will be accessible at https://ecmc2022.sciforum.net/ at the time of the conference. They can be prepared in exactly the same way as for any traditional conference where research results can be presented. Contributions must be converted to PDF format before submission, so that they can be easily and automatically converted to be displayed online.
The organization of posters is left completely up to the authors, provided that they use the conference’s template.
The accepted contributions will probably be published as one dedicated volume in the MDPI Medical Sciences Forum journal. Publication of proceedings paper is free of charge.
Note: Before publication, Medical Sciences Forum journal will review accepted papers using the powerful text comparison tool: iThenticate. This procedure aims to prevent scholarly and professional plagiarism.
Submissions with a high repetition rate and lack of novelty will not be published in the conference proceedings.
We recommend the following organization for your slideshow or video, using the Conference’s template:
- Length of the presentation: no more than 30 slides
- Slide 1 (strictly one slide): Title, authors’ names, affiliation(s), email address of corresponding author, logos of the laboratory and/or institution (not mandatory).
- Slide 2 (strictly one slide): Graphical abstract; repeat the title of the presentation but avoid other text as far as possible.
- Slide 3 (strictly one slide): Abstract (max. 250 words) and 3–5 keywords, separated by semicolons.
- Slide 4 and following slides: These should contain (in the given sequence) Introduction, Results and Discussion, Conclusions.
- Last slide: Acknowledgments, and logos of sponsors (not mandatory).
Uploaded files:
Event Awards
The following awards will be offered by our organizers.
The Awards
The open access peer-reviewed Journal Pharmaceuticals will offer each one award (400 CHF) to reward the best poster, the best slideshow, the best flash communication and the best communication, and 500 CHF to reward the best invited lecture. All submissions will be considered, independently of the session (general and round table). The best works will be selected by the members of the Scientific Committee.
One free 1-day hands on/testing using microwaves offered by Microwave Technologies Consulting. Selection will be made by the Company following strict scientific criteria.
Conference Secretariat
Ms. Amber Zhao
Ms. Jennifer Wang
Email: [email protected]
S1. Opening session

Prof. Dr. Maria Emília Sousa
[email protected]

Dr. Alfredo Berzal-Herranz
[email protected]
S2. Invited lectures

Prof. Dr. Maria Emília Sousa
[email protected]

Dr. Alfredo Berzal-Herranz
[email protected]
S3. General

Dr. Jong Heon Kim
[email protected]
S4. Small molecules as drug candidates

Prof. Dr. Mary J. Meegan
[email protected]

Dr. Daniela De Vita
[email protected]
S5. Biomolecules as therapeutics

Prof. Dr. Amélia Pilar Rauter
[email protected]

Dr. Cristina Romero-López
[email protected]
S6. Emerging technologies in drug discovery

Prof. Dr. Joachim Jose
[email protected]

Prof. Dr. Osvaldo Andrade Santos-Filho
[email protected]
S7. Radiopharmaceuticals

Dr. Klaus Kopka
[email protected]
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