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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

Prof. Dr. Adalberto Merighi

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Department of Veterinary Sciences, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
Interests: pain; somatosensory pathways; spinal cord; neuron death; cerebellum; development; neuronal circuits
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Prof. Dr. Emmanuel Mikros

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“Athena” Research and Innovation Center, PharmaInformatics Unit, Maroussi, Greece
Interests: drug design; NMR; metabolomics
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Prof. Dr. Enrico Millo

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Department of Experimental Medicine, Section of Biochemistry and CEBR, University of Genoa, Viale Benedetto XV 1, 16132 Genoa, Italy
Interests: design and chemical synthesis of conventional and retro-inverse peptides as pharmacological drugs in disease involving misregulation of gene-expression, autoimmune diseases and immunological studies synthesis of hormone-like molecules with potential pharmacological activities; design and synthesis of drug-like small molecules (thiazole derivatives) for the pharmacological correction of the cystic fibrosis chloride transport defect; design and synthesis of creatine-derived compounds for the therapy of creatine transporter deficiency; design and synthesis of sirtuin modulators

Prof. Dr. Mariarosaria Miloso

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School of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milano-Bicocca, Via Cadore 48, 20900 Monza, Italy
Interests: evaluation of antitumorigenic effects of natural and synthetic compounds; characterization of biological properties of mesenchymal stem cells from different sources
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Prof. Dr. Aleksandra Misicka-Kesik

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Faculty of Chemistry, University of Warsaw, Pasteura 1, 02-093 Warsaw, Poland
Interests: medicinal chemistry; organic and peptide synthesis; anti-angiogenic peptidomimetics; analgesic compounds, peptide-based drugs

Prof. Dr. Pascale Moreau

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Department of Chemistry, Université Clermont Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France
Interests: design and synthesis of heteroaromatic compounds; biologically active agents; kinases inhibitors
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Prof. Dr. Kamil Musilek

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1. Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Hradec Kralove, Rokitanskeho 62, 50003 Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic
2. Biomedical Research Center, University Hospital in Hradec Kralove, Sokolska 581, 50005 Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic
Interests: bioorganic and medicinal chemistry; rational and structure-based drug design; toxicology; small molecules; organophosphorus antidotes; Alzheimer disease; CNS delivery; cancer targets

Prof. Dr. Adel Nefzi

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Department of Cellular Biology & Pharmacology, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199, USA
Interests: organic chemistry; medicinal chemistry; small molecules; drug-like compounds; tethered and fused diazacyclic compounds; heterocyclic peptidomimetics; combinatorial chemistry; solid phase organic synthesis
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Dr. Toru Ogasawara

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Graduate School of Medicine and Faculty of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Hongo 7-3-1, Bunkyo, Tokyo 113-8655, Japan
Interests: molecular biology; cell cycle; stem cells; bone metabolism; regenerative medicine
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Prof. Dr. Satomi Onoue

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Laboratory of Biopharmacy, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Shizuoka, 52-1 Yada, Suruga-ku, Shizuoka 422-8526, Japan
Interests: drug delivery system; biopharmaceutics; peptides; safety science
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Prof. Dr. Helen Osborn

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School of Pharmacy, University of Reading, Reading, UK
Interests: development of new chemical and enzymatic methods for the treatment of life threatening diseases; anti-infective agent; glycosidase enzyme inhibitors; anti-viral agents; personalised medicines
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Dr. Sílvia Osuna

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Institut de Química Computacional i Catàlisi (IQCC) and Departament de Química, Universitat de Girona, Campus Montilivi, Facultat de Ciències, 17071 Girona, Spain
Interests: computational chemical biology; computational enzyme design; computational chemistry

Prof. Dr. Hyun-Ock Pae

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Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Wonkwang University School of Medicine, Iksan, Republic of Korea
Interests: gas biology (nitric oxide; carbon monoxide; hydrogen sulfide); immunology (T cells; macrophages; inflammation); antioxidants (Vitamin C; glutathion; phytochemicals)

Prof. Dr. Bruno Pagano

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Department of Pharmacy, Universita degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, 80131 Naples, Italy
Interests: DNA; proteins; medicinal and pharmaceutical chemistry; fluorescence; DSC; biophysics; aptamers
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Prof. Dr. Maurizio Pellecchia

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Division of Biomedical Sciences, School of Medicine, University of California Riverside, 900 University Avenue, Riverside, CA 92521, USA
Interests: drug discovery; covalent drugs; protein-protein interactions; fragment based drug discovery; biophysical methods in drug discovery; NMR-based drug discovery; oncology therapeutics; ALS therapeutics; inhibitors of metastases

Prof. Dr. Tadeusz Pieńkowski

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Department of Oncology and Breast Diseases, Centre of Postgraduate Medical Education, Marymoncka 99/103, 01-813 Warsaw, Poland
Interests: breast czncer; molecular predictive; prognostic factors

Prof. Dr. Jens Pietzsch

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Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), Institute of Radiopharmaceutical Cancer Research, Department of Radiopharmaceutical and Chemical Biology & Technische Universität Dresden (TUD), School of Science, Faculty of Chemistry and Food Chemistry, Dresden, Germany
Interests: cancer; inflammation; theranostics; radiotracer; endoradiotherapy; radiosensitizer; therapy resistance; tumor microenvironment; extracellular matrix; preclinical molecular imaging; multimodal imaging; imaging probes; positron emission tomography (PET); single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT); optical imaging
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Prof. Dr. Nikolaos Pitsikas

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Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Thessaly, Larisa, Greece
Interests: behavioral pharmacology; neuroscience; psychopharmacology
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Prof. Dr. Katalin Prokai-Tatrai

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Department of Pharmacology and Neuroscience, University of North Texas Health Science Center, 3500 Camp Bowie Blvd, Fort Worth, TX 76107, USA
Interests: drug design of central nervous system agents; neuropeptides and peptidomimetics; prodrugs for CNS delivery; CNS-selective estrogen therapy; neuroprotection; proteomics
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Dr. Sridhar Radhakrishnan

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Research Fellow, Cancer Science Institute of Singapore, Singapore
Interests: small molecule; fragments; PROTAC; structure/ligand based; drug development; nanoparticles/fibers/materials; drug delivery; formulations
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Dr. Rino Ragno

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Rome Center for Molecular Design, Dipartimento di Chimica e Tecnologie del Farmaco, Sapienza Università di Roma, P. le A. Moro 5, 00185 Roma, Italy
Interests: medicinal chemistry; computational chemistry; 3D-QSAR; machine learning; drug design
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Prof. Dr. Simona Rapposelli

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Department of Pharmacy, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Interests: drug discovery; multitarget ligands; antioxidants; neuroprotective agents; autophagy; anticancer; kinase inhibitor
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Prof. Dr. Giulio Rastelli

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Department of Life Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Via Campi 103, 41125 Modena, Italy
Interests: computational approaches; drug discovery; drug design; molecular modeling; computational chemistry; virtual screening
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Dr. Drazen Raucher

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Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, 2500 North State Street, Jackson, MS 39216, USA
Interests: therapeutic peptides; drug delivery; hyperthermia; cancer therapy; glioblastoma

Prof. Dr. Jarkko Rautio

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School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Eastern Finland, P.O. Box 1627, FI-70211 Kuopio, Finland
Interests: prodrugs; CNS drug delivery; drug transporters
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Dr. Jóhannes Reynisson

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School of Pharmacy, Keele University, Newcastle-under-Lyme ST5 5BG, UK
Interests: drug discovery; virtual screening; molecular modelling; chemical space; density functional theory
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Prof. Dr. Jessica Rosenholm

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Pharmaceutical Sciences Laboratory, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland
Interests: nanomedicine; drug delivery; biomaterials engineering; bioimaging probes; biomedical nanotechnology; pharmaceutical technology
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Prof. Dr. Sylvain Routier

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ICOA UMR CNRS 7311, Univeristy of Orléans,BP 6759 Rue de Chartres, 45067 Orleans, CEDEX 2, France
Interests: heteroaromatic chemistry; flow chemistry; Hit to lead optimization in oncology and CNS deseases; conception of probes for imaging

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