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Dr. Giosuè Costa

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Department of Health Sciences- Magna Græcia University of Catanzaro, Catanzaro, Italy
Interests: drug discovery; computational chemistry; computer-aided drug design; virtual screening; food chemistry; nutraceuticals; natural products
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Dr. Roberta Costi

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Dipartimento di Chimica e Tecnologie del Farmaco, Sapienza Università di Roma, P. le A. Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy
Interests: drug design; antiviral agents; anticancer; antiparasitic
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Prof. Dr. Maria Valeria D’auria

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Department of Pharmacy, University of Naples "Federico II" (UNINA), Via Domenico Montesanto, 49, I-80131 Naples, Italy
Interests: natural products; drug discovery; cancer and inflammation

Prof. Dr. Lisa Dalla Via

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Department of Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Sciences, University of Padova, Via F. Marzolo 5, I-35131 Padova, Italy
Interests: drug discovery; MAO inhibitors; anticancer drugs; natural compounds
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Prof. Dr. Erik De Clercq

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Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, KU Leuven, Rega Institute for Medical Research, Herestraat 49, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium
Interests: HIV/AIDS; antiretroviral therapy
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Dr. Maria Emília De Sousa

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1. Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research (CIIMAR), 4450-208 Porto, Portugal
2. Laboratory of Organic and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Porto, 4050-313 Porto, Portugal
Interests: medicinal chemistry; organic synthesis; heterocycles; P-glycoprotein; anticancer; antimicrobials; chiral drugs; marine natural products
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Dr. Beatriz de-las-Heras

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Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Complutense Universityof Madrid (UCM), 28040 Madrid, Spain
Interests: natural products; inflammation; inflammasome; cancer; ocular tolerance

Prof. Dr. F.J. (Frank) Dekker

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Department of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Biology, University of Groningen, Antonius Deusinglaan 1, 9713 AV Groningen, The Netherlands
Interests: epigenetics; inflammation; medicinal chemistry; enzyme inhibition

Prof. Dr. William A. Denny

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Auckland Cancer Society Research Centre, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Interests: small-molecule inhibitors; tyrosine kinase enzymes; PI3 kinase inhibitors; design and development; EGFR inhibitors
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Dr. Lorenzo Di Cesare Mannelli

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Department of Neuroscience, Psychology, Drug Research and Child Health (NEUROFARBA), Pharmacology and Toxicology Section, University of Florence, 50139 Florence, Italy
Interests: pharmacology; medicinal plants; chronic pain; nervous system pathologies and treatment; glia; cholinergic receptors; opioid receptors
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Dr. Robert J. Doerksen

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Department of BioMolecular Sciences and Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Mississippi, University, MS 38677, USA
Interests: computational medicinal chemistry; cannabinoid receptors; drug discovery; quantum chemistry; allosteric modulators; protein modeling; quantitative structure–activity relationships
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Dr. Mourad Elhabiri

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Bioorganic and Medicinal Team, Laboratory of Molecular Innovation and Applications (LIMA), UMR7042 CNRS - University of Strasbourg, ECPM, 67200 Strasbourg, France
Interests: antiinfectious diseases; antimalarial drugs; antiviral drugs; drug design and synthesis; physico-chemical investigations; elucidation of mechanism of action; functional stimulus-responsive fluorescent probes for bioimaging

Prof. Dr. Ana Estévez-Braun

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Organic Chemistry Department, Instituto Universitario de Bio-Orgánica, Universidad de La Laguna, San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Spain
Interests: medicinal chemistry; synthesis of heterocyclic quinones; domino and multicomponent reactions using privileged structures; natural products chemistry
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Dr. Paola Fossa

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Department of Pharmacy, University of Genoa, Genova, Italy
Interests: medicinal chemistry; computer-assisted drug design; ligand–target molecular interactions; GPCRs; CFTR
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Prof. Dr. Susanna Fürst

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Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy, Semmelweis Egyetem, Budapest, Hungary
Interests: central nervous system, pain, nociception, opioids, heterocyclics and opioid peptides, algogen substances, tolerance, dependence, clinical trial in analgesia
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Prof. Dr. Stefania Galdiero

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Department of Pharmacy, University of Naples Federico II, Via Mezzocannone 16, 80134 Napoli, Italy
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Dr. Alfonso T. Garcia-Sosa

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Institute of Chemistry, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
Interests: drug design; biomolecular simulation; computational chemistry
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Dr. Jorge Garrido

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CIQUP, Department of Chemical Engineering, School of Engineering (ISEP), Polytechnic of Porto, 4200-072 Porto, Portugal
Interests: analytical methods; electroanalysis; nanotechnology; bioactive compounds
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Prof. Dr. Sandra Gemma

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Department of Biotechnology, Chemistry and Pharmacy, University of Siena, Via Aldo Moro 2, 53100 Siena, Italy
Interests: medicinal chemistry; small molecules; drug discovery; structure-activity relationships; anti-infective agents; parasitic diseases; chemotherapeutics; synthesis of biologically active compounds
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Prof. Dr. Athina Geronikaki

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School of Pharmacy, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
Interests: biologically active heterocycles; thiazole; thiazolidinone; benzothiazole; thiadiazoles with antimicrobial activity; COX/LOX, PTP1b, HIV RT enzyme inhibitors; anti inflammatory; carbonic anhydrase; DPP4; cancer
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Prof. Dr. Antimo Gioiello

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Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy
Interests: drug discovery; integrated flow systems for lead discovery; chemical probes for understudied biological targets; enabling chemical technologies to assist complex syntheses; automation; new processing methods for large-scale preparation
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Prof. Dr. Bernard T. Golding

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School of Natural & Environmental Sciences - Chemistry, Newcastle University, Bedson Building, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU, UK
Interests: biological and medicinal chemistry (especially drugs for treating cancers, fungal infections and dementias); enzyme mechanisms and organic synthesis

Prof. Dr. Simona Golič Grdadolnik

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Laboratory for Molecular Structural Dynamics, National Institute of Chemistry Hajdrihova 19, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Interests: biomolecular NMR spectroscopy; biomolecular structure and dynamics; ligand–protein interactions; dynamic processes in relation to biological activity; rational drug design
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Prof. Dr. Florenci V. González

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Departament de química inorgànica i orgànica, Universitat Jaume I, Castelló, Spain
Interests: medicinal chemistry; organic synthesis; drug discovery; chemical probes; protease inhibitors
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Prof. Dr. Carlotta Granchi

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Department of Pharmacy, University of Pisa, Via Bonanno 6, 56126 Pisa, Italy
Interests: medicinal chemistry; drug discovery; chemical synthesis; PROTAC; anticancer agents; cancer metabolism; endocannabinoid system
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Dr. George Grant

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School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK (Retired, now independent researcher)
Interests: plants; seeds; bioactive factors; lectins; protease inhibitors; flavonoids; polyphenols; immunomodulators; gut and systemic function; pancreas; liver; gut diseases; metabolic disorders; mucositis; cancers; microbes (pathogens and commensals); parasites; nematodes; flagella; fimbriae; secreted proteins; infection; dysbiosis; inflammatory bowel disease; gut systemic diseases; marine resources; disease therapy

Dr. Rita Guedes

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Research Institute for Medicines and Pharmaceutical Sciences (iMed.UL), Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Lisbon, Av. Prof. Gama Pinto, 1649-019 Lisbon, Portugal
Interests: computational medicinal chemistry; design of new drugs; anti-infectious agents; anti-cancer agents; in silico methods; virtual screening; molecular docking; de novo design; homology modelling; pharmacophore modelling; molecular dynamics; Monte Carlo; quantum chemistry
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Dr. Catherine Guillou

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Institut de Chimie des Substances Naturelles, CNRS UPR 2301, Unversité de Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Interests: natural product synthesis; new organic reaction; medicinal chemistry; antialzheimer agents; cholinesterase inhibitors; nicotinic receptors; kinesin inhibitors; cancer

Prof. Dr. Zhongwu Guo

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Department of Chemistry, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
Interests: carbohydrate; glycoconjugate; glycolipid; glycoprotein; vaccine; glycoimmunology

Prof. Dr. Dimitra Hadjipavlou-Litina

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Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, School of Pharmacy, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece
Interests: synthesis and biological studies on anti-inflammatory and antioxidant agents, on inhibitors of enzymes implicated in the inflammation and in the coagulation process in general; correlation of inflammation with cancer; neurodegeneration; antioxidant activity; theoretical and experimental calculation of physicochemical parameters implicated in biological response; use of computational chemistry in drug design as well as bioactive compounds of natural origin, e.g., essential oils
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