Editorial Board for section 'Medicinal Chemistry'

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Please note that the order in which the Editors appear on this page is alphabetical, and follows the structure of the editorial board presented on the MDPI website under information for editors: editorial board responsibilities.

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Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Trinity College Dublin, 152−160 Pearse Street, Dublin 2 D02 R590, Ireland
Interests: anticancer drug design; breast cancer; novel antioestrogens; tubulin targeting agents; azetidinones; antioestrogen–drug conjugates; oestrogen receptor; Burkitt's lymphoma; chronic lymphocytic leukaemia
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Department of Pharmacy, G. d’Annunzio University, 66100 Chieti, Italy
Interests: medicinal chemistry; drug discovery; aromatase inhibitors; PPAR ligands; anticancer agents
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Dipartimento di Scienze della Salute, Università “Magna Graecia” di Catanzaro, Campus “Salvatore Venuta”, Viale Europa, 88100 Catanzaro, Italy
Interests: drug design; molecular modeling; molecular dynamics; virtual screening; pharmacophore modeling; drug repurposing; natural products
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Institut des Sciences Chimiques de Rennes (ISCR), UMR CNRS 6226, Groupe CORINT, Université de Rennes 1 (UR1), Campus de Beaulieu, Bât. 10A, 263 Avesnue du Général Leclerc, CS 74205, 35042 Rennes CEDEX, France
Interests: microwave-assisted organic chemistry and scale-up; “Store Operated Calcium Entry” inhibitors (Orai1) for cancer via Délikine program inhibitors; mitochondrial ion channel inhibitors for cancer; protein kinase (PKs) inhibitors for CNS (Alzheimer’s disease and Down syndrome) via Leucettine program inhibitors; fluorescence probes for studies of molecular mechanisms in cancer biology
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Dr. Einar S Björnsson
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Landspitali-The National University Hospital of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
Interests: gastroenterology; hepatology; drug-induced liver injury; gastrointestinal bleeding; liver cirrhosis; pancreatitis

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Department of Pharmacy, University of Genoa, Viale Benedetto XV 3, 16132 Genoa, Italy
Interests: medicinal chemistry; drug discovery; small molecules; antitumor agents; kinase inhibitors; synthetic lethality
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Department of Neuroscience, Psychology, Drug Research and Child Health (NEUROFARBA), Section of Pharmaceutical and Nutraceutical Sciences, University of Florence, Via Ugo Schiff, 6, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, FI, Italy
Interests: medicinal chemistry; rational drug design; heterocyclic compounds; structure–activity relationships; adenosine receptor ligands; carbonic anhydrase inhibitors; protein kinase CK1 and CK2 inhibitors; ecto-5'-nucleotidase (CD73) inhibitors
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Dr. Liqiang Chen
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Center for Drug Design, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Interests: medicinal chemistry; fragment-based drug design; structure-based drug design; antiviral agents; anti-cancer agents; methyltransferase inhibitors; sirtuin inhibitors; histone deacetylase inhibitors; nucleosides; nucleotides

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1. Laboratory of Organic and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Department of Chemical Sciences, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Porto, Rua de Jorge Viterbo Ferreira, 228, 4050-313 Porto, Portugal
2. CIIMAR—Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research, University of Porto, Novo Edifício do Terminal de Cruzeiros do Porto de Leixões, Avenida General Norton de Matos, S/N, 4450-208 Matosinhos, Portugal
Interests: medicinal chemistry; organic synthesis; drug discovery; anticancer; antimicrobial; chiral drugs; natural products
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Department of Neuroscience, Psychology, Drug Research and Child Health (NEUROFARBA), Section of Pharmaceutical and Nutraceutical Sciences, University of Florence, Via Ugo Schiff, 6, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, FI, Italy
Interests: medicinal chemistry; rational drug design; heterocyclic compounds; structure–activity relationships; adenosine receptor ligands; carbonic anhydrase inhibitors; protein kinase CK1 and CK2 inhibitors; ecto-5'-nucleotidase (CD73) inhibitors
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1. Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy, University of Algarve, 8005-139 Faro, Portugal
2. Center of Marine Sciences - CCMar, University of Algarve, 8005-139 Faro, Portugal
Interests: physical organic chemistry; organic reactivity; medicinal chemistry; bioactive heterocyclic compounds; antiparasitic compounds
1. Instituto de Química Médica—CSIC, Madrid, Spain
2. Medicinal Chemistry Institute—Spanish Council for Scientific Research, Madrid, Spain
Interests: medicinal chemistry; design and synthesis of antiparasitic agents for neglected tropical diseases (trypanosomiasis, leishmaniasis, malaria); cationic compounds; DNA binding study; pKa measurement
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Department of Drug Science and Technology, University of Turin, via P.Giuria 9, 10125 Torino, Italy
Interests: medicinal chemistry; pharmaceutical analysis; drug discovery; Alzheimer’s Disease; ADME

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Medicinal Chemistry Unit, School of Pharmacy, University of Camerino, 62032 Camerino, Italy
Interests: receptor chemistry; drug discovery; biologically active ligands; structure-activity relationship studies
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Department of Pharmacology, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, PA 17033, USA
Interests: synthesis; chemopreventive agent; chemotherapeutic agent; enviromental carcinogens; in vitro and in vivo studies; leukemia; melanoma; colon cancer
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Dr. Luisa Di Paola
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Faculty of Engineering, Università Campus Biomedico di Roma, via Alvaro del Portillo, 21-00128 Rome, Italy
Interests: medicinal chemistry
Laboratory of Chimie Moléculaire et Environnement - LCME, University Savoie Mont Blanc, F-73000 Chambéry, France
Interests: sonochemistry; green organic chemistry; catalysis; ionic liquids; biomass valorization; hydrometallurgy; strategic metal electrodeposition
Centro de Química Estrutural, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal
Interests: chemical toxicology; drug design; MS-based OMICS; biomarkers; organic synthesis; epigenetic drugs; HK2 inhibitors; drug repurposing
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Latvian Institute of Organic Synthesis, Division of Chemical, Biological and Medical Sciences, Latvian Academy of Sciences, Aizkraukles 21, LV 1006 Rīga, Latvia
Interests: heterocyclic chemistry (partially hydrogenated azines: dihydro- (tetrahydro-) pyridines, pyrimidines, polycyclic derivatives) - studies of chemical and biological properties; medicinal chemistry (synthesis and studies of cardiovascular, antioxidative, membrane protective, radioprotective, UV-protective agents)

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Faculté de Pharmacie, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Campus Plaine CP 205/5, 1050 Brussels, Belgium
Interests: medicinal chemistry; organic synthesis; asymmetric synthesis
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Department of Biomolecular Sciences, University of Urbino Carlo Bo, 61029 Urbino, PU, Italy
Interests: medicinal chemistry; drug design; cannabinoids; sugar-based surfactants
Department of Pharmacy, University of Naples Federico II, Via D. Montesano 49, 80131 Naples, Italy
Interests: synthetic medicinal chemistry; serotoninergic ligands; anticancer agents

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Centro de Química Estrutural, Instituto Superior Técnico - Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
Interests: organic chemistry; tetrazoles, thiazoles and thiadiazoles; nitrogen ligands; organocatalysis; metal catalysis; selective chelators for metals on biological medium; leads for cancer chemotherapy
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Department of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Vienna, A-1090 Vienna, Austria
Interests: bioinorganic chemistry; medicinal chemistry; anticancer agents; platinum-based anticancer drugs; synthesis, characterization, NMR spectroscopy and cytotoxicity of platinum complexes; drug targeting strategies

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Istituto di Chimica Biomolecolare-CNR, Via Campi Flegrei, 34, 80078 Pozzuoli, Italy
Interests: drug discovery; bioactive compounds; small molecules; anticancer activity; medicinal chemistry; synthesis; structure–activity relationships; anti-inflammatory agents; mPGES-1 inhibitors; prostaglandin E2 biosynthesis; epigenetic drugs; BRD9; JMJD3 inhibitors; erbB4 inhibitors

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Department of Pharmacy, Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Calabria, Ampl. Polifunzionale, Via P. Bucci, 87036 Arcavacata di Rende, Italy
Interests: drug design; small molecules; natural compounds; protein targeting; anticancer; antiviral; metabolic disorders
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Prof. Dr. Abdallah Hamze
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Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Paris-Saclay University, Orsay, France
Interests: medicinal chemistry; drug discovery; anticancer agents; antibody drug conjugate (ADC); Histone deacetylase inhibitors (HDAC); protein kinase (PKs) inhibitors
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Department of Pharmacy, Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Calabria, Via Pietro Bucci, 87036 Arcavacata di Rende, Italy
Interests: food; medicinal chemistry; bioactive products; nutraceuticals; phytochemicals; natural products extraction and isolation; antioxidants; anti-inflammatory; antimicrobials enzyme inhibition; cancer; cell biology
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