EFMC-YMCS 2015

2nd EFMC Young Medicinal Chemists' Symposium

 Antwerp, Belgium    September 17, 2015

Keynote Lecture

We Urgently Need More Medicinal Chemists to Generate Novel Tools to Dissect Disease Biology, and New Drugs for Patients

Prof. Chas BOUNTRA
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, Oxford, United Kingdom

EFMC-YMCS Competition Presentation Session I

Innovative Oligourea Foldamers with Antimicrobial Effects : Application to Bacillus Anthracis Infection
Winner of the young medicinal chemist meeting in France

Ms Stéphanie ANTUNES
UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX, Pessac, France

Finding Novel Treatments Against Neglected Parasitic Diseases Using Target Repurposing of Phosphodiesterases

Dr Ewald EDINK
VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM, Delft, The Netherlands

Novel SAM Analogues for Sequence-Specific DNA Labeling
Winner of the young medicinal chemist meeting in Belgium (KVCV)

Ms Charlotte VRANKEN
KULEUVEN, Heverlee, Belgium

EFMC-YMCS Competition Presentation Session II

Photoisomerizable Phenylazopyridines Enable the Control of Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor Subtpe 5 Activity with Light

Mr Xavier GÓMEZ-SANTACANA
INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED CHEMISTRY OF CATALONIA - CSIC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Synthesis of Novel Pyrido[1,2-c]Pyrimidine Derivatives - 5-HT1A Receptors and Serotonin Transporter Ligands
Winner of the young medicinal chemist meeting in Poland

Ms Anna GOMOLKA
MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW, Warsaw, Poland

Binding Kinetics at the GnRH Receptor - A Comparison of Three Different Assays
Winner of the young medicinal chemist meeting in The Netherlands

Ms Indira NEDERPELT
UNIVERSITY OF LEIDEN, Leiden, The Netherlands

Development of Pharmacological Tools to Explore the Orphan G Protein-coupled Receptor GPR35
Winner of the young medicinal chemist meeting in Germany

Dr Dominik THIMM
UNIVERSITÄT BONN, Bonn, Germany

EFMC-YMCS Competition Presentation Session III

Iminoboronates as a Novel Bioconjugation Method
Winner of the young medicinal chemist meeting in Portugal

Dr Pedro CAL
UNIVERSITY OF LISBON, Lisboa, Portugal

Novel CF3-Containing Pyrrolidones as Amidine-based BACE1 Inhibitors
Winner of the young medicinal chemist meeting in Spain

Mrs Myriam CIORDIA JIMENEZ
UNIVERSIDAD CEU SAN PABLO, Madrid, Spain

Nortopsentin Analogues with Potent Activity against Diffuse Malignant Peritoneal Mesothelioma (DMPM)
Winner of the young medicinal chemist meetings in Italy

Mrs Barbara PARRINO
UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO (1), PALERMO , Italy

Cathepsin B Inhibitors Impair the Processes of Tumour Progression
Winner of the young medicinal chemist meeting in Slovenia

Dr Izidor SOSIC
UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA, Ljubljana, Slovenia

2-(4΄-Aminophenyl)Benzothiazole Derivatives As Pharmacophores In Tricarbonyl M(Co)3+ (M = Re, 99mtc) Complexes For Tumor Diagnosis And Therapy
Winner of the young medicinal chemist meeting in Greece

Mr Alexandros STOURAITIS
NCSR DEMOKRITOS, Athens, Greece

SWI/SNF Bromodomain Inhibitor Development and Testing in SWI/SNF Mutant Cancers
Winner of the young medicinal chemist meeting in the United Kingdom

Ms Charlotte SUTHERELL
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Playing Properties Right in the CD38 FBDD Programme: Small Changes Produced Significant Shifts in Property profiles

Mr Ben WHITEHURST
GLAXOSMITHKLINE, Stevenage, United Kingdom

EFMC-YMCS Competition Presentation Session IV