
3rd International Electronic Conference on Medicinal Chemistry
Part of the International Electronic Conference on Medicinal Chemistry series
1–30 Nov 2017
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Welcome from the Chair
Further to the success of the two first editions, Pharmaceuticals, a peer-reviewed journal edited by MDPI, is proud to organize and sponsor the 3rd International Electronic Conference on Medicinal Chemistry. Contributions dealing with any discipline promoting research in drug discovery and development will be welcome.
The conference will be held online (www.sciforum.net/conference/ecmc-3) from November 1–30, 2017. It will enable you to share your recent results with scientists of academic and industrial groups from all over the world.
Participation, as an author or a visitor, is ABSOLUTELY FREE (simply create an account on the home page). Abstracts of the presentations will be published, upon authorization of the authors, in a meeting report after the conference.
On behalf of our dynamic editorial staff and active scientific committee, we warmly invite you to join us during this third edition and we look forward to posting your contributions.
All participants of ECMC-3 are welcome to submit the extended work to the Pharmaceuticals Special Issue "Selected Papers from the 3rd International Electronic Conference on Medicinal Chemistry".
Conference Chair
Dr. Jean Jacques Vanden Eynde |
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Conference Committee
IPBLN-CSIC, Spain |
Universidade do Porto, Portugal |
University of Nebraska Medical Center, USA |
Haute Ecole Provinciale de Hainaut-Condorcet, Belgium |
Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium |
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Italy |
Call for Papers
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 comprises:
- 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 studies
- Lead optimization
- Omics
- Pharmaceutical analysis
- Scale-up
- Structure–activity relationships
- Target selection
After the conference, proceedings will be published free of charge thanks to the sponsoring of the journal Pharmaceuticals, in a meeting report. Authors of the most outstanding contributions, as selected by the Scientific Committee, will be invited to publish their work as a research article free of charge or 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 chairman via e-mail at [email protected] or to the Pharmaceuticals editorial office at [email protected].
We thank you in advance for your attendance of this conference and look forward to a stimulating exchange.
Conference Chairs

Formerly head of the Department of Organic Chemistry (FS), University of Mons-UMONS, 7000 Mons, Belgium
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Conference Committee

Department of Molecular Biology, Instituto de Parasitología y Biomedicina López-Neyra, (IPBLN-CSIC), PTS Granada, Av del Conocimiento 17, 18016 Granada, Spain
structure-function of RNA; aptamers; antisense; ribozymes; viral RNA genomes; RNA as tool; therapeutic RNAs
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Laboratório de Química Orgânica e Farmacêutica, Departamento de Ciências, Químicas, Faculdade de Farmácia, Universidade do Porto, Rua Jorge Viterbo Ferreira 228, 4050-313, Porto, Portugal
medicinal chemistry; organic synthesis; heterocycles, P-glycoprotein; anticancer; anticoagulants; chiral drugs; marine natural products
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Department of Pathology & Microbiology University of Nebraska Medical Center, USA
host defense antimicrobial peptides, structural bioinformatics, biomolecular NMR
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Formerly professor at the Haute Ecole Provinciale de Hainaut-Condorcet, 7330 Saint-Ghislain, Belgium
medicinal chemistry, organic synthesis, parasitic diseases, orphan drugs
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Faculté de Pharmacie, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Campus Plaine CP 205/5, 1050 Brussels, Belgium
medicinal chemistry; anticancer metal complexes; asymmetric synthesis
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Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, IPPN, CCS, Bloco H - Ilha do Fundão, Rio de Janeiro, RJ - 21941-902, Brazil
molecular modeling; computer-aided drug design; bioinformatics; chemoinformatics
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Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche e Geologiche, Cittadella Universitaria, SS 554, bivio per Sestu, 09042, Monserrato (CA), Italy
peptide synthesis; peptide nucleic acid; indole synthesis; amide synthesis; mechanochemical reaction; borrowing hydrogen; microwave; heterocycle synthesis; hydroxamic acids
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Instructions for Authors
Submissions should be done by the authors online by registering with www.sciforum.net, and using the "Start New Submission" function once logged into system.
Researchers interested in attending the conference must submit, on this website and not later than 15 October 2017, an abstract of the work they intend to present.
After the abstract is accepted by the Scientific Committee (1-5 days after receipt of the abstract), the authors will be invited to prepare a full description of their work preferably under the form of a PowerPoint presentation, and to upload it before 20 October 2017 to ensure final check.
The presentations will be accessible on https://sciforum.net/conference/ecmc-3 during the time of the conference.
Authors are encouraged to prepare a presentation using the template provided by the conference. Slides will be displayed directly in the website using Sciforum.net's proprietary slides viewer. They can be prepared in exactly the same way as for any traditional conference where research results can be presented. Slides should be converted to the PDF format before submission so that our process can easily and automatically convert them for online displaying.
Electronic Conference on Medicinal Chemistry PPT template file
Electronic Conference on Medicinal Chemistry Poster template file
The following organization is recommended for your presentation:
- Length of the presentation: no more than 30 slides
- Slide 1 (strictly one slide): Title, Authors’ names, Affiliation(s), email address of the corresponding Author, and, not mandatory, logos of the laboratory and/or institution;
- 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 200 words) and 3-5 keywords separated by semicolons;
- Slide 4 and following slides: should contain (in the given sequence) Introduction, Results and Discussion; Conclusions.
- Last slide: Acknowledgments and, not mandatory, logos of sponsors of the work.
MDPI AG, the publisher of the Sciforum.net platform, is an open access publisher. We believe that authors should retain the copyright to their research works. Hence, by submitting a contribution to this conference, the authors retain the copyright of their contribution, but they grant MDPI AG the non-exclusive right to publish this contribution online on the Sciforum.net platform. This means the authors can easily submit their contribution to any scientific journal at a later stage and transfer the copyright to its publisher (if required by that publisher).
List of accepted submissions (76)
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sciforum-014464 | Synthesis and Anti-Mycobacterium tuberculosis Activity of N-oxide Containing Heterocycles | , , , |
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Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease caused by the bacterium, Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb). The last surveys conducted by the World Health Organization (WHO) have described TB as the infectious disease responsible for the highest number of deaths worldwide. Furthermore, an increasing number of multidrug-resistant (MDR) and extensively-drug resistant (XDR) strains have complicated the scenario. In this regard, various N-oxide derivatives, such as furoxan, benzofuroxan, and quinoxaline 1,4-di-N-oxide, have been previously described as promising scaffolds with a potential to be explored as novel antitubercular drugs. Herein, 22 new N-oxide-containing compounds were synthesized followed by in vitro evaluation of their antitubercular potential against Mtb. Moreover, their safety and primary mechanism of action were also explored. The compounds demonstrated MIC90 values ranging from 0.40 to 62 μM. Among the different heterocyclic compounds containing N-oxide, the benzofuroxan derivative 8 was found to be the most promising compound, with MIC90 values of 1.10 and 6.62 μM against active and non-replicating Mtb, respectively. Cytotoxicity tests using MRC–5 cell line demonstrated an IC50 value of 519.2 μM. Compound 8 was also active against monoresistant strains. Microarray-based initial studies on the mechanism of action revealed an upregulation of a number of transcripts encoding proteins belonging to both small and large subunits of the ribosome, suggesting that compound 8 blocked the process of translation. Altogether, these results indicated benzofuroxan derivative 8 to be a promising lead compound for the development of a novel chemical class of antitubercular drugs. |
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sciforum-014750 | Theoretical Exploration of Nanoparticles Targeting Bacterial Prostatitis | , |
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Prostatitis describes a combination of infectious diseases (acute and chronic bacterial prostatitis), chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CPPS) or asymptomatic prostatitis Most men with “chronic prostatitis” have chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CP/CPPS), characterized by pelvic pain. The etiology of this syndrome is not fully known, the evaluation has been controversial and treatment is, unfortunately, frequently unsuccessful. Focused multimodal therapy appears to be more successful than empiric monotherapy. In that sense, it is important to know how nanoparticles will function in an animal model. The present paper reviews promising methods to capture prostate targeting. |
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sciforum-014438 | Asymetric Synthesis of 3,6- Disubstituted Dioxopiperazines with Potential Siderophore Properties | , , |
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Antibiotic resistance is an emerging disease and a real problem of health. Resistance of Gram negative bacteria such as Acinetobacter baumannii and Escherichia coli to conventional antibiotics lead to therapeutic failure and require new antibiotherapies. The use of the iron transport systems is one of the most promising strategies to overcome this resistance phenomenon. These specific routes of entry, essential for the survival of the microorganisms, allow ferric siderophore complexes to carry iron within the bacteria.
These systems allow the introduction of antibacterial agents (conjugates antibiotic-siderophore) or toxic complexes (gallium complexes) into the bacteria to kill them. Rhodotorulic acid (RA) is a siderophore transported by TonBox dependant Fhu receptors. These kinds of receptors are expressed by Acinetobacter baumannii and Escherichia coli. RA is dioxopiperazine iron chélater with hydroxamate as iron ligands and two asymmetric centers (S,S configuration). This spatial orientation is essential for the Fhu receptors recognition.
We have previously reported the asymmetric synthesis of 3-substituted 2-oxopiperazines. Herein, we present an original and a convergent strategy to synthesize RA and corresponding 3,6-disubstituted analogues. Siderophore-like test and measurement of the complexing strength of these compounds will be carried out. |
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sciforum-014903 | Influence of the Oligoribonucleotides-D-mannitol Complexes on Upexpression of some Genes Induced by Influenza Virus in vivo | , |
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The influenza (flu) virus infection induces an upexpression of tlr3, tlr7, tlr8, nfκb1, nfκbiα, nos2, xdh and other genes in mice lung. The nos2 and xdh upexpression causes overproduction of free radicals that lead to lung tissue damage. The upexpression of nfκb1, nfκbiα genes induce incorrect regulation of NF-κB. that regulates expression of the immune, inflammation genes and takes part in flu viral replication. The oligoribonucleotides-D-mannitol complexes (ORNs-D-M) possess antiviral activity against the flu virus in vitro and in vivo. One of mechanisms of the ORNs-D-M anti-influenza activity is direct virucidal action by blocking hemagglutinin–glycan interactions and inhibiting neuraminidase activity of flu virus. However other mechanisms of the ORNs-D-M anti-influenza activity have to be studied. Current research was aimed at study of the ORNs-D-M effects on expression of the tlr3, tlr7, tlr8, nfkbia, nfnb1 nos2, xdh genes in mice lung under flu virus infection. To achieve this goal we applied a two-step RT-PCR assay. In mice lung after 48 h flu infection it was detected the overexpression of all investigated genes compared to the healthy ones. The ORNs-D-M injection for prevention reduced the mRNA level of tlr3, tlr7, tlr8, nfkbia, nfnb1 nos2, xdh expression by 65, 77, 76, 70, 63, 48, 32 % respectively vs the virus-infected mice. And the ORNs-D-M injection for treatment reduced the mRNA level of tlr3, tlr7, tlr8, nfkbia, nfnb1 nos2, xdh expression by 28, 17, 22, 40, 52, 41, 38 % respectively vs the virus-infected mice. Our results show that the expression of all investigated genes is modulated by the ORNs-D-M after injection for prevention and treatment of the flu virus infection in vivo. It allows us to assume that by inhibiting the expression of tlr3, tlr7, tlr8, the ORNs-D-M impair the upregulation of nos2, xdh, nfkbia, nfkb1 induced by flu virus. |
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sciforum-014770 | Design of Novel Tubulin Polymerization Inhibitors Based on CA-4 |
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Combretastatin A-4(CA-4), a group of polyhydroxylated stilbenes isolated from the bark of the South African tree Combretum Caffrum, is a highly effective natural tubulin-binding molecule affecting microtubule dynamics by binding to the colchicines site. Its water soluble phosphate ester (CA-4P) is under evaluation in phase 3 trials for treatment of anaplastic thyroid cancer and in phase 2 trials for non-small cell lung cancer and platinum-resistant ovarian cancer, thus stimulating significant interest in a variety of combretastatin A-4 analogues. Unfortunately, a problem have limited their use as therapeutic agents. The cis configuration is biologically active, with the trans form showing significantly inactive. The active cis double bond in CA-4 is readily converted to the more stable trans isomer during storage or metabolism by heat, light, and protic media , resulting in a dramatic decrease in antitumor activity. Thus, it is necessary to design and discover novel cis configuration inhibitors based on CA-4. |
Copyright
MDPI AG, the publisher of the Sciforum.net platform, is an open access publisher. We believe that authors should retain the copyright to their research works. Hence, by submitting a contribution to this conference, the authors retain the copyright of their contribution, but they grant MDPI AG the non-exclusive right to publish this contribution online on the Sciforum.net platform. This means the authors can easily submit their contribution to any scientific journal at a later stage and transfer the copyright to its publisher (if required by that publisher).
Best Presentation Award
This year, as a sponsor, Pharmaceuticals would like to award the best presentation as elected by all the organizers. The Award will consist of 500 Swiss Francs. We look forward to posting your contributions.
Criteria for Evaluation of Best Presentation Award 2017:
Criteria
- Full PPT presentation must be submitted to ECMC-3.
- The quality of the presentation.
- The scientific content of the presentation
Evaluation
- Each Evaluation Committee member will give an assessment for each applicant in terms of the criteria outlined above.
- Total score for each presentation will be ranked, from highest to lowest.
- If two or more students get the same score, further evaluation will be carried out.
- All decisions made by the Evaluation Committee are final.
Best Presentation at ECMC-3
Pharmaceuticals and the Organizing Committee of ECMC-3 congratulate Jalal Soubhye who received an award for the best presentation at ECMC-3:
Topic: Dual Anti-Inflammatory and Anti-Bacterial Effects of Phenylhydrazide and Phenylhydrazone Derivatives
authored by Jalal Soubhye,
Laboratoire de Chimie Pharmaceutique Organique, Faculté de Pharmacie, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Campusplaine, CP 205/5, 1050 Brussels, Belgium.
"Currently, Dr. Jalal Soubhye works as academic researcher at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) in the field of medicinal chemistry, whose research focuses on pharmacological design, synthesis and evaluation of new chemical substances with therapeutic potential. His current research interests are in the development and evaluation (in vitro and in vivo) of myeloperoxidase inhibitors as anti-inflammatory agents. Understanding of the mechanism of inhibition is very important to obtain new potent and safe inhibitors. In addition, he is working on design, synthesis and evaluation of new antimicrobial agents."
Exhibition Hall
Electronic Exhibition Hall of ECMC - Develop and Strengthen Your Brand
- Free of charge for companies exhibited in 2017.
- High visibility: The last edition of this series provided the opportunity to more than 10,000 visitors to browse
among 42 relevant slide shows and videos, presented by 150 authors from 22 countries. - Super easy to prepare: a short introduction of your company, and a PPT presentation (less than 10 slides) to show super star products.
Euriso-top Founded in January 1991 by a group of researchers from the Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (CEA), Euriso-Top became a leading producer of deuterated solvents and stable isotope labelled compounds in Europe, thanks to an incomparable knowledge.
Read more...With a large catalog of thousands of chemical compounds covering various fields of application (Proteomics and Genomic research, Biotechnology discovery, Organic synthesis, Pharmaceutical development, Manufacturing industry), Euriso-top, has been supplying for 25 years the scientific community with stable isotope labeled chemicals, isotopic gases, NMR solvents, isotopic metals, Clinical trials substrates.
ELVESYS is an innovative self-funded company that started the commercialization of microfluidic instrumentation in 2011. ELVESYS aims to become a key research partner in the microfluidic field because we believe this domain will be the heart of next technological revolution.
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Hielscher Ultrasonics GmbH: High-power ultrasonic processors for liquid processing
Hielscher Ultrasonics specializes in the design, development and production of ultrasonic devices - both for use in laboratories as well as for industrial applications. Due to the outstanding power of the ultrasonic processors and the high quality standards, Hielscher became the world's leading supplier of high performance ultrasonic equipment. The product range of Hielscher Ultrasonics includes ultrasonic devices to / for
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As a distributor of laboratory instruments and lab furniture, Analis is primarily oriented towards research activities, biotechnology applications, chemistry, clinical chemistry and medical in vitro diagnostics and quality control.
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Established in Namur in 1927, Analis employs more than 130 people in two locations: The head office is in Suarlée (NAMUR) in the south of Belgium and we have a branch office in Sint-Denijs-Westrem (GENT) in the north.
Thanks to acquisitions, distribution activities and constant innovation, our company has grown and integrated new technologies. Analis covers all aspects of laboratory management: from laboratory project design to complete maintenance of customer’s installed equipment. We structured our organization in order to guide each (research) laboratory with the necessary expertise, application support, technologies and solutions in the following fields: Life Sciences;- In Vitro Diagnostics; Laboratory Equipment; Analytical Chemistry; Materials Testing; Metrology; Laboratory Furniture by ARDESTA.
Our priority is to offer a high level of application and service support. Furthermore, by offering a full range of flexible automation systems, we help each laboratory to increase its lab productivity.
Analis is certified ISO9001-2008, including conception, production, distribution and technical assistance.
Analis also runs a research laboratory, ‘Analis R&D Diag’, that develops electrophoresis and CE in vitro diagnostic kits (CEOfix™). ANALIS R&D Diag is focused on analytical method development through the use of capillary
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Read more...MDPI publishes 179 diverse peer-reviewed, scientific, open access, electronic journals, including Molecules (launched in 1996; Impact Factor 2.861), the International Journal of Molecular Sciences (launched in 2000; Impact Factor 3.226), Sensors (launched in 2001; Impact Factor 2.677), Marine Drugs (launched in 2003; Impact Factor 3.503), Energies (launched in 2008; Impact Factor 2.262), the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (launched in 2004; Impact Factor 2.101), Viruses (launched in 2009; Impact Factor 3.465), Remote Sensing (launched in 2009; Impact Factor 3.244), Toxins (launched in 2009; Impact Factor 3.030), Nutrients (launched in 2009; Impact Factor 3.550), and Pharmaceuticals (CiteScore 4.9). Our publishing activities are supported by more than 15,700 active scientists and academic editors on our journals' international editorial boards, including several Nobelists. More than 263,500 individual authors have already published with MDPI. MDPI.com receives more than 8.4 million monthly webpage views.
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Conference Organizers
Dr. Franck Vazquez, MDPI AG, Basel, Switzerland
Ms Changzhen Fu, MDPI AG Branch Office, Wuhan, China
Ms Flora Li, MDPI AG Branch Office, Wuhan, China
List of Keynotes & Videos
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C. Round Table on Nanomedicines
This round table is organized with the help of our media partner Precision Nanosystems.
Precision NanoSystems (PNI) creates innovative solutions for the discovery, development and manufacture of novel nanoparticles for use as medicines and in medical research. PNI headquarters is located in Vancouver, Canada with scientist and sales support located globally and our instruments in over 20 countries.
PNI’s proprietary NanoAssembler Platform enables the rapid, reproducible, and scalable manufacture of next generation nanoparticle formulations for the targeted delivery of therapeutic and diagnostic agents to cells and tissues in the body. PNI provides instruments, reagents and services to life sciences researchers, including pharmaceutical companies, and builds strategic collaborations to revolutionize healthcare through nanotechnology. This is illustrated by the one-hour video presenting breakthroughs in nanomedicines: https://youtu.be/hz27xoFddno.
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D. Round Table on Parasitic Diseases
This round table is chaired by Dr. Conor Caffrey from the University of California at San Diego (USA).
Parasitic diseases continue to pose major public health problems, particularly in developing countries, worldwide. Moreover, the (re)appearance of these diseases in developed territories, such as schistosomiasis in Europe and Chagas disease in the southern United States, means that we must be increasingly vigilant in our preventive and response strategies as the global economy and climate change. However, the alarming ability of parasites to develop drug resistance combined with the small number of sometimes partially effective drugs available undermines our ability to manage and treat some diseases; a case in point being the emergence and establishment of drug resistance by the malaria parasite to artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) over the last decade. Thus, there is a continuing, indeed, increasing, need to explore and develop new opportunities for chemotherapies. In this arena, the contribution of academia is vital. The current selection of papers submitted to this Round Table on Parasitic Diseases regarding leishmaniasis, trichomoniasis, Chagas disease, tuberculosis and Human African Trypanosomiasis attest to the continuing hard work and ingenuity of academic scientists to develop new ideas and approaches in the chemical battle against parasites. Importantly, in addition to synthetic chemical approaches described, we see the tapping of the vast chemical space of natural products as source of new drugs. It is hoped that the science presented at this Round Table will promote new exchanges and ideas among the chemical biology, parasitology and drug discovery communities, and ultimately contribute to the identification of novel therapeutic strategies.
Session Chair
Dr. Conor Caffrey
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