Lectures presented at the Polish-Austrian-German-Hungarian-Italian
Joint Meeting on Medicinal Chemistry, Kraków, Poland, 15-18 October
2003
>
link to conference calendar
Preface
The Polish-Austrian-German-Hungarian-Italian Joint Meeting on Medicinal
Chemistry took place in Kraków, Poland, from 15-18 October 2003.
This year’s conference was a continuation of two previous Joint
Meetings which had been held in Budapest, Hungary (Hungarian-German-Italian-Polish,
2001) and Taormina, Italy (Italian-Hungarian-Polish, 1999).
The meeting was organized under the auspices of the International Union
of Pure and Applied Chemistry and the European Federation of Medicinal
Chemistry by:
- Medicinal Chemistry Divisions of the Chemical Societies of Austria,
Germany, Hungary, and Italy;
- Medicinal Chemistry Divisions of the Polish Chemical and Pharmaceutical
Societies;
- Faculty of Pharmacy, Medical College of the Jagiellonian University
in Kraków;
- Institute of Pharmacology of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Kraków;
and
- Committee of Drug Design and Synthesis of the Polish Academy of
Sciences.
The Honorary Committee of the conference was chaired by Prof. Franciszek
Ziejka, rector of Jagiellonian University. The chairman of the conference
was Prof. Zdzislaw Chilmonczyk, and the head of the organizing committee
was Prof. Katarzyna Kieæ-Kononowicz. The conference was attended
by 350 participants from 26 countries, including Poland (135), Italy
(80), Germany (35), Hungary (16), Russia (8), Turkey (7), Austria (5),
Switzerland (5), and 18 other countries.
The scientific program included: 5 plenary lectures (45 min.), 20 lectures
(35 min.), and 8 keynotes (20 min.) during which participants were presented
with the latest ideas concerning:
- drugs for the treatment of CNS and cardiovascular diseases,
- chemotherapeutics,
- combinatorial chemistry and high-throughput screening,
- molecular modeling,
- peptides and peptidomimetics, and
- pharmaceutical biotechnology.
Plenary lectures were as follows:
- Prof. Walter Schunack, Free University of Berlin, Germany: “G
Proteins: Targets for new drugs?”
- Prof. Bernard Testa, Institute de Chimie Therapeutique, Universite
de Lausanne, Switzerland: “Can drug metabolism be predicted?”
- Prof. James P. Stables, Director of National Institute of Neurological
Disorders and Stroke, Bethesda,USA: “A translational approach
to preclinical drug development in epilepsy”
- Prof. Tommy N. Johansen, Danish University of Pharmaceutical Sciences,
Copenhagen, Denmark: “Rational approaches to the design of ligands
for ionotropic glutamate receptors”
- Prof. G. Michael Blackburn, Krebs Institute, Scheffield University,
Great Britain: “Passive and catalytic antibodies and drug delivery”
The poster sessions consisted of 226 posters.
The organizers also prepared a rich social program for the participants
of the conference, which included a welcome party in a restaurant at
Wawel Castle and sightseeing tours to major monuments of Kraków.
The conference was crowned with a reception in the exhibit rooms of
the National Museum of the Cloth Hall.
The program of the conference was released in the form of a book of
abstracts (ISDN 83-919157-1-9) Polish-Austrian-German Hungarian-Italian
Joint Meeting on Medicinal Chemistry , Kraków, Poland, 15-18
October 2003. The full texts of the plenary and invited lectures are
included in this issue of Pure and Applied Chemistry and in a
CD, which will also include presentation of all the posters.
The Polish-Austrian-German-Hungarian-Italian Joint Meeting on Medicinal
Chemistry was a very successful scientific event and an excellent opportunity
to exchange ideas and introduce the most recent research in the field
of medicinal chemistry.
The next Joint Meeting on Medicinal Chemistry will be held in 2005.
Prof. Katarzyna Kieæ-Kononowicz
Conference Editor
E-mail: [email protected]
Assoc. Prof. Barbara Malawska
Conference Editor
E-mail: [email protected]
Organizing Committee: Z. Chilmonczyk (Chairman);
K. Kiecæ - Kononowicz (Head); A. Bojarski; J. Bojarski; J. Handzlik;
K. Kulig; B. Malawska; E. Pêkala; E. Szymañska; M. Wiêcek.
