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Prof. Dr. Masahide Hamaguchi

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Graduate School of Medical Science, Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto 602-8566, Japan
Interests: chronic inflammation; non-alcoholic fatty liver disease; intestinal microbiota; diabetes; nutrition; artificial in-telligence; metabolism
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Prof. Dr. Andrew G. Horti

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Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD, USA
Interests: radiology; PET; Radiological Science

Prof. Dr. Josef Jampilek

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1. Department of Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University, Ilkovicova 6, 84215 Bratislava, Slovakia
2. Department of Chemical Biology, Faculty of Science, Palacky University, Olomouc, Slechtitelu 27, 78371 Olomouc, Czech Republic
Interests: medicinal chemistry; drug design; structure–activity relationships; pharmaceutical analysis; polymorphism; drug bioavailability; ADME; nanoparticles; nanoformulations; controlled/targeted delivery
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Prof. Dr. Ludovic Jean

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1. Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Paris, 4 Avenue de l'Observatoire, 75270 Paris, CEDEX 06, France
2. Laboratory CiTCoM UMR CNRS 8038, 75270 Paris, CEDEX 06, France
Interests: medicinal chemistry (reactivators of cholinesterases inhibited by organophosphorus nerve agents, inhibitors of cholinesterases and multi-targets directed ligands against neurodegenerative diseases, peptidomimetics, fluorescent probes, click chemistry)
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Prof. Dr. Manuel Jiménez-Tenorio

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Department of Material Science and Metallurgy Engineering and Inorganic Chemistry, Universidad de Cadiz, Cadiz, Spain
Interests: organometallic chemistry; inorganic chemistry; homogeneous catalysis; organic synthesis; NMR spectroscopy; venomics; marine drugs; marine toxins; systematics (taxonomy)
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Dr. Béla Juhász

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Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy, Faculty of Medicine, University of Debrecen, Nagyerdei krt. 98, H-4032 Debrecen, Hungary
Interests: dyslipidemia; atherosclerosis; echocardiography; oxidative stress; cardioprotection; type 2 diabetes; bioactive compounds; chronic diseases; nutraceuticals
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Prof. Dr. Rafik Karaman

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1. Pharmaceutical & Medicinal Chemistry Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Al-Quds University, Jerusalem P.O. Box 20002, Palestine
2. Department of Sciences, University of Basilicata, Via dell’Ateneo Lucano 10, 85100 Potenza, Italy
Interests: design and synthesis of anticancer prodrugs with targeting properties determined by the linker’s type; design and synthesis of prodrugs with inefficient bioavailability; design and synthesis of prodrugs for masking the bitter sensation of commonly used drugs
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Prof. Dr. Gyorgy M. Keseru

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Medicinal Chemistry Research Group, Research Centre for Natural Sciences, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Magyar tudósok körútja 2, H-1117 Budapest, Hungary
Interests: medicinal chemistry; drug design; GPCR; protein kinases; central nervous system; oncology
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Prof. Dr. Ivan Kosalec

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Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, Institute of Microbiology, University of Zagreb, Schrottova 39, Zagreb, Croatia
Interests: antimicrobial activities of molecules of synthetic and plant origin; inhibition of microbial virulence; mycology; Candida spp.
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Prof. Dr. Jacques Lebreton

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CEISAM, UMR CNRS 6230, Université de Nantes, F-44322 Nantes, France
Interests: synthetic methodologies; heterocyclic chemistry; nucleoside and nucleotide chemistry; steroid chemistry; inhibitors of protein-protein interactions; total synthesis of natural products; synthesis of non-radiolabeled compounds

Prof. Dr. Marc Lecouvey

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CNRS, UMR 7244, CSPBAT, Laboratoire de Chimie, Structures et Propriétés de Biomateriaux et d’Agents Therapeutiques, Université Paris 13, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Bobigny, France
Interests: phosphorus chemistry; the synthesis of new ligands for metal complexation

Prof. Dr. Jérôme Leprince

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INSERM U1239, University of Normandy, 76000 Rouen, France
Interests: structure-activity relationship study of neuropeptides; pharmacochemistry of neuropeptides; peptide-based GPCR ligand design; bioactive peptides; neuroendocrinology; cell protection
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Prof. Dr. Wei Li

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Professor and Director of UTHSC College of Pharmacy Drug Discovery Center, Faculty Director of Shared Analytical Instrument Facility, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, 881 Madison Avenue, room 561, Memphis, TN 38163, USA
Interests: small molecule drug discovery; chemical biology; medicinal chemistry; tubulin inhibitors; colchicine binding site inhibitors; survivin inhibitors; MDM2 inhibitors
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Prof. Dr. Donghai Lin

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Department of Chemical Biology, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
Interests: NMR-based metabolomics; LC-MS-based metabolomics; biomolecular NMR; structural biology; cancer cachexia; muscular atrophy; sarcopenia; metabolic regulation; allosteric effect
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Prof. Dr. Hong Liu

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State Key Laboratory of Receptor Research, Key Laboratory of Receptor Research, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 555 Zu Chong Zhi Road, Shanghai 201203, China
Interests: drug design and discovery; modification of natural product; optimization of lead compounds for new drugs; the development of new organic synthetic methodologies; building focused combinatorial libraries, etc.

Prof. Dr. Shuang Liu

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School of Health Sciences, Purdue University, 550 Stadium Mall Drive, West Lafayette, IN, USA
Interests: inorganic chemistry; radiochemistry; nuclear pharmacy; molecular imaging

Prof. Dr. Philippe M. Loiseau

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Biomolecules: Conception, Isolement, Synthese, Chatenay-Malabry, France
Interests: antiparasite chemotherapy; research of antileishmanial drugs; mechanisms of drug action; mechanisms of drug resistance; drug targeting
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Dr. Bernard Maigret

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LORIA Institute (Laboratoire Lorrain de Recherches en Informatique et Applications), Université de Lorraine, CNRS, INRIA, Vandoeuvre les Nancy, France
Interests: virtual screening; molecular dynamics; Monte Carlo; QM/MM; molecular recognition; optimization; data mining; clustering; deep learning
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Prof. Dr. Clementina Manera

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Department of Pharmacy, University of Pisa, Via Bonanno 6, 56126 Pisa, Italy
Interests: medicinal chemistry; G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs); orthosteric targeting; allosteric modulation; antitumor agents; multi-target drugs for the treatment of chronic inflammatory and neurodegenerative diseases
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Prof. Dr. Giuseppe Manfroni

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Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Perugia, 06123 Perugia, Italy
Interests: medicinal chemistry; drug design; molecular modeling; heterocyclic chemistry; organic synthesis; antivirals; antitumor agents; antibacterials; anti-inflammatory agents; chemical biology; kinase inhibitors; ionic liquids; enzyme inhibitors; nucleic acids binders; hit-to-lead optimization
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Prof. Dr. Arduino A. Mangoni

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Discipline of Clinical Pharmacology, College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University, Bedfor Park, SA 5042, Australia
Interests: drug and biomarker discovery; drug repurposing; aging; cancer; cardiovascular disease
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Prof. Dr. Paolo Mariani

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Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, Marche Polytechnic University, 60121 Ancona, Italy
Interests: molecular biophysics; structural biology; in-solution protein structure; protein interactions, stability and folding/unfolding; telomers, guanosine quadruplexes; self-assembling biomolecular hydrogles; lyotropic liquid crystals, lipid cubic phases; cubosomes, hexasomes, nanoparticles, drug-delivery systems; low-resolution X-ray diffraction, neutron scattering, SAXS, SANS, AFM, polarised optical microscopy

Prof. Dr. Maria Paula Marques

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Department of Life Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Coimbra, 3000-456 Coimbra, Portugal
Interests: vibrational spectroscopy (Raman, FTIR and neutron scattering); medicinal chemistry; bioinorganic chemistry; cancer diagnosis by vibrational spectroscopy; design of anticancer drugs; chemopreventive phytochemicals; pharmaceutical chemistry; biomaterials; coordination chemistry and metal complexes

Dr. Gabriella Marucci

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Medicinal Chemistry Unit, School of Pharmacy, University of Camerino, Via Madonna delle Carceri, 62032 Camerino, Italy
Interests: G-protein coupled receptors; P1 adenosine receptr agonists and antagonists; P2 ligands; antitumor drugs; enzyme inhibitors; medicinal chemistry
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Dr. Már Másson

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Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Health Sciences, University of Iceland, Hofsvallagata 53, IS-107 Reykjavík, Iceland
Interests: chitosan derivatives; chitosan conjugates; antimicrobials; drug delivery; nanoparticles; mathematical modeling
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Dr. Maria João Matos

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Department of Organic Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Santiago de Compostela, 15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Interests: coumarins; natural product chemistry; organic chemistry; medicinal chemistry; chemical biology; computational chemistry
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Prof. Dr. Dariusz Matosiuk

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Department of Synthesis and Chemical Technology of Pharmaceutical Substances, Faculty of Pharmacy, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland
Interests: medicinal chemistry; synthesis of heterocyclic compounds; structural elucidation of heterocyclic compounds; molecular modeling; functional activity of small molecules; GPCRs; transmembrane and cellular kinases; pain; allosteric modulation
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Prof. Dr. Thomas Mavromoustakos

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Department of Chemistry, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
Interests: hypertension; structure elucidation; nuclear magnetic resonance; spectroscopy; NMR spectroscopy; medicinal and pharmaceutical chemistry; molecular modeling; Raman spectroscopy; DSC; NMR structure elucidation
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Prof. Dr. Charles McKenna

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Chemistry & Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Interests: organophosphorus chemistry; phosphonates; phosphates; drug discovery; drug delivery
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Prof. Dr. Jay McLaughlin

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Department of Pharmacodynamics, College of Pharmacy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610-0487, USA
Interests: opioids; sigma; NPFF; drug abuse; analgesics; drug discovery; HIV-1 Tat; HAND; NeuroAIDS
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