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Editor-in-Chief
Dr. Derek J. McPhee
Director of Chemistry, Amyris Biotechnologies, Inc., 5885 Hollis St, Suite 100, Emeryville, CA 94608, USA
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Interests: organic synthesis; medicinal chemistry; biotechnology
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Section: Molecular Diversity
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Ms. Jely He
MDPI Beijing Office, Liyuanbeijie Road 186, Suite 307, Liyuan Town, Tongzhou District, 101101 Beijing, China
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Mr. Dietrich Rordorf
MDPI, Kandererstrasse 25, CH-4057 Basel, Switzerland
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Editorial Board
Prof. Dr. Fernanda Borges
BaseTEC and Department of Organic Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Porto, R. Aníbal Cunha, 164, 4050.047 Porto, Portugal
Tel. +351 222078900; Fax: +351 222003977
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Interests: medicinal chemistry; Design and synthesis of new chemical entities (NCE) towards several targets mainly connected with cancer, Parkinson and Alzheimer and inflammatory diseases; lead discovery and optimisation; development of new antioxidants; synthesis and analysis of metabolites
Dr. Geoff Brown
Department of Chemistry, The University of Reading, Whiteknights, Reading, RG6 6AD, UK
Tel. +44 (0) 118 378 7418; Fax: +44 (0) 118 378 6331
Website: http://www.reading.ac.uk/chemistry/about/staff/g-d-brown.asp
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Interests: *for Molecules specifically*: natural products; terpenes; biosynthesis; autoxidation chemistry; structure determination by NMR spectroscopy; prebiotic chemistry; *for Pharmaceuticals specifically*: natural products; antimalarial drugs; cannabinoids; NMR spectroscopy; metabonomics; oligosacharide structure determination
Contribution:
Section: Medicinal Chemistry
Dr. Ian Churcher
Discovery Medicinal Chemistry, GlaxoSmithKline Medicines Research Centre, Gunnels Wood Road, Stevenage, SG1 2NY, UK
Tel. +44 1438 762468; Fax: +44 1438 768232
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Interests: neurodegeneration; diseases of protein misfolding; epigenetics; kinases; pharmacokinetics; novel hit identification strategies; screening techniques and chemical diversity
Prof. Dr. Paul Cos
Laboratory of Microbiology, Parasitology and Hygiene (LMPH) Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences Faculty of Pharmaceutical, Biomedical and Veterinary Sciences Antwerp University, campus groenenborger, building V, office 5.23 Groenenborgerlaan 171, B-2020 Antwerp, Belgium
Website: www.ua.ac.be/paul.cos
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Interests: anti-infective agents; biofilm; bacterial virulence; oxidative stress; antibacterial; antifungal; antiparasitic and antiviral
Contribution:
Special Issue: Anti-Infective Agents
Special Issue: Anti-Infective Agents
Prof. Dr. Paul J. Dyson
Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
Website: http://isic2.epfl.ch/page59045.html
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Interests: metal drugs; platinum drugs; ruthenium drugs; organometallic drugs
Prof. Dr. Thomas Efferth
German Cancer Research Center, Pharmaceutical Biology (C015), Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
Tel. +49 6221 423426; Fax: +49 6221 423433
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Dr. David R. Gang
Departments of Plant Sciences and Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics Member, BIO5 Institute, The University of Arizona Thomas W. Keating Bioresearch, Building 1657, E. Helen Street, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
Tel. +1 520 621 7154; Fax: +1 520 626 4824
Website: http://ag.arizona.edu/research/ganglab/index.htm
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Interests: synthetic biology; metabolic engineering; biosynthesis; enzyme kinetics; structural biology; systems biology; metabolomics; mass spectrometry; proteomics; functional genomics; Alzheimers and inflammatory diseases; natural products; terpenoids; polyketides; alkaloids - especially Lycopodium alkaloids
Dr. Arthur Gomtsyan
Abbott Laboratories, 100 Abbott Park Road, Department R4PM, Bldg. AP9A, Abbott Park, IL 60064, USA
Tel. +1 847 935 4214; Fax: +1 847 937 9195
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Interests: medicinal chemistry; synthetic organic chemistry; drug design in the area of pain research targeting ion channels and enzymes
Dr. Gilles Gosselin
CNRS Research, Idenix Senior Scientist Fellow, Laboratoires IDENIX Sarl, Cap Gamma, 1682 Rue de la Valsière, B.P. 50001, 34189 Montpellier, Cedex 4, France
Tel. +33 (0)4 99 64 27 31; +33 (0)6 27 78 32 62 (mobile); Fax: +33 (0)4 67 63 73 26
Website: http://www.idenix.com/
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Interests: new nucleoside analogues as potential antiviral (AIDS, hepatitis) and antumor agents; nucleoside prodrugs; nucleotide prodrugs (pronucleotides)
Dr. Rick Gussio
NCI-Frederick, P.O. Box B, FVC 310, Frederick MD, 21702, USA
Tel. +1 301 846 5791; Fax: +1 301 846 6106
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Interests: structural medicinal chemistry; structure-based design & discovery; molecular modeling, bioinformatics; chemoinformatics; applied statistics; QSAR; computational chemistry; pharmacognosy
Prof. Dr. Michael Gütschow
Pharmaceutical Institute, University of Bonn, An der Immenburg 4, 53115 Bonn, Germany
Tel. +49 228 732317
Website: http://va.gdch.de/fofue/
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Interests: synthetic organic chemistry; enzyme kinetics; mechanism-based enzyme inhibitors; inhibitors of proteases
Dr. Christian Hartinger
Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Vienna, Währinger Str. 42, A-1090 Vienna, Austria
Tel. +43 1 4277 52609; +43 664 60277 52609 (mobile)
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Interests: development of metal-based drugs; mode of action studies; interaction with biomolecules and bioanalytical chemistry with a focus on mass spectrometric techniques coupled to separation methods
Dr. Kenneth A. Jacobson
Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry and Molecular Recognition Section, National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bldg. 8A, Rm. B1A-19 8 Center Dr., MSC-0810 Bethesda, MD 20892-0810, USA
Tel. +1 301 496 9024; Fax: +1 301 496 9024
Website: http://www.researcherid.com/rid/A-1530-2009
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Interests: medicinal chemistry; G protein-coupled receptors; receptor pharmacology; cell signaling; molecular modeling; purinergic receptors; adenosine receptors; chemistry of nucleosides and nucleotides; radiochemistry; nanotechnology and nanoscience
Dr. Svend Borup Jensen
Nuklearmedicinsk Afdeling - Hobrovej 18-22, Postboks 365, 9100 Aalborg, Denmark
Tel. +45 9932 3140; Fax: +45 9932 3145
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Interests: drug in-vitro degradation profiles; medicinal gum; analytical methods; medicinal chemistry; PET-radiochemistry
Contribution:
Special Issue: Radiochemistry
Special Issue: Radiochemistry
Special Issue: Radiochemistry
Dr. Jos Lange
Principal Scientist Chemical Design & Synthesis Unit, Solvay Pharmaceuticals B.V., Building WWA-A224, C.J. van Houtenlaan 36, 1381 CP Weesp, The Netherlands
Tel. +31 0294 479731; Fax: +31 0294 477138
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Interests: synthetic organic chemistry and microwave chemistry; CNS drug design; lead finding and lead optimization strategies; cannabinoids and cannabinoid receptor modulators; peptidomimetics
Prof. Dr. Philip S. Low
Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, 560 Oval Drive, West Lafayette, IN 47906-2084, USA
Tel. +1 765 494 5273; Fax: +1 765 494 5272
Website: http://www.chem.purdue.edu/people/faculty/faculty.asp?itemID=44
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Interests: targeted therapies for inflammatory and autoimmune diseases; targeted therapies for cancer; structure of the erythrocyte membrane; siRNA delivery; ligand-targeted imaging agents; nanomedicines; rapid detection and identification of pathogens
Prof. Dr. Giuseppe Mancia
Clinical Medicine Unit, University of Milano-Bicocca, San Gerardo Hospital, Via Pergolesi, 33, 20052 Monza (MI), Italy
Tel. +39 039 2333357; Fax: +39 039 322274
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Interests: pathophysiology; clinical pharmacology and therapy of hypertension; congestive heart failure and other cardiovascular diseases
Contribution:
Special Issue: Antihypertensive Drugs
Prof. Dr. Alberto M. Martelli
Dipartimento di Scienze Anatomiche Umane, Università di Bologna, Cell Signalling Laboratory, School of Pharmacy, via Irnerio 48, 40126 Bologna BO, Italy
Tel. +39 051 2091580; Fax: +39 051 2091695
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Interests: targeted therapies for cancer; signal transduction pathways as innovative therapeutic targets; nuclear lipid-based signaling
Prof. Dr. Kevin H. Mayo
Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology & Biophysics, and the NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
Tel. +1 612 625 9968
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Interests: protein and carbohydrate structure and function; NMR spectroscopy; structure-based drug design and discovery; angiogenesis; oncology; infectious disease
Prof. Dr. Paolo Montuschi
Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Largo Francesco Vito 1, 00168 Rome, Italy
Tel. +39 06 30156092; Fax: +39 06 30156292
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Interests: asthma; chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD); pharmacological therapy of asthma and COPD; allergy; non-invasive monitoring of lung inflammation; exhaled breath condensate; exhaled nitric oxide; electronic nose; metabolomics
Contribution:
Special Issue: Antiasthmatic Drugs
Dr. Mark Murphy
Research Immunology, Actelion Pharmaceuticals Ltd, Gewerbestrasse 16, CH- 4123 Allschwil, Switzerland
Tel. +41 61 565 85 12
Website: http://www.actelion.com/
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Interests: immunology; targeted therapies for inflammatory and autoimmune diseases; signal transduction pathways as innovative therapeutic targets; stem cells; protein-protein interactions; targeted therapies for cancer; cytokines/chemokines
Dr. Tam Nguyen
SAIC, National Cancer Institute-Frederick, P.O. Box B, FVC 310, Frederick MD, 21702, USA
Tel. +1 301 846 6035; Fax: +1 301 846 6106
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Interests: kinase inhibition; protein dynamics; chemoinformatics; structural chemistry; molecular modeling; NMR spectroscopy
Dr. Mark H. Norman
Chemistry Research & Discovery, Amgen Inc., One Amgen Center Drive, MS: B29 29-M-B, Thousand Oaks, CA 91320-1799, USA
Tel. +1 805 447 1552; Fax: +1 805 480 3015
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Interests: design and synthesis of new chemical entities (NCE) towards several targets mainly connected with cancer, pain and inflammation; lead discovery and optimization; medicinal chemistry
Prof. Dr. Ricardo E. Pérez-Tomás
Department of Pathology and Experimental Therapy, Faculty of Medicine, University of Barcelona, Campus de Bellvitge., Lab.5101 C./ Feixa Llarga s/n E- 08907, Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
Tel. +34 93 4024288; Fax: +34 93 4024249
Website: http://www.ub.es/cellbiology/staff/ricardoperez.htm
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Interests: new molecules for cancer chemotherapy; apoptosis; signal transduction for cancer chemotherapy
Prof. Dr. Yvonne Perrie
Chair in Pharmaceutics, School of Life and Health Sciences, Aston University, UK
Tel. +44 (0) 121 204 3991
Website: http://www1.aston.ac.uk/lhs/staff/az-index/perriey/
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Interests: liposomes; gene therapy; vaccines; colloidal systems
Contribution:
Special Issue: What's on Board in Pharmaceutics
Dr. Sally-Ann Poulsen
Eskitis Institute for Cell and Molecular Therapies, Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland 4111, Australia
Tel. +61 (0)7 3735 7825; Fax: +61 (0)7 3735 6001
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Interests: medicinal chemistry; dynamic combinatorial chemistry; target guided synthesis; carbohydrate chemistry; native state mass spectrometry
Prof. Dr. Thomas Rades
The New Zealand National School of Pharmacy, University of Otago, PO Box 56, 18 Frederick Street, Adams Building Dunedin, New Zealand
Tel. +64 3 479 5410; Fax: +64 3 479 7034
Website: http://www.pssrc.org/index.php?id=thomas_rades
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Interests: formulation and drug delivery and physical characterization of drugs and dosage forms; colloidal delivery systems for bioactives; the solid state of drugs and dosage forms
Prof. Dr. Maurizio Recanatini
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Bologna, Via Belmeloro 6, I-40126 Bologna, Italy
Tel. +39 051 20 99720; Fax: +39 051 20 99734
Website: http://www.scfarm.unibo.it/
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Interests: computational medicinal chemistry; structure-based ligand design & discovery; modeling of targets and ligand-target complexes of therapeutic interest (cancer, Alzheimer's disease, hERG-related drug toxicity); chemical biology
Contribution:
Special Issue: Targeted Therapy
Dr. P. Hemachandra Reddy
Neurogenetics Laboratory, Neuroscience Division, Oregon National Primate Research Center, West Campus, Oregon Health and Science University, 505 N.W., 185th Avenue Beaverton, OR 97006, USA
Tel. +1 503 418 2625 (office); +1 503 418 2627 (lab); Fax: +1 503 418 2501
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Interests: aging; neurodegenerative diseases; gene expression analysis; transgenic mouse models; mitochondrial biology; mitochondrial function/dysfunction; mitochondrial therapeutics; mitochondrial dynamics
Contribution:
Special Issue: Mitochondrial Drugs for Neurodegenerative Diseases
Prof. Dr. Oliver Reiser
Institut für Organische Chemie, Universität Regensburg, Universitätsstr. 31, 93053 Regensburg, Germany
Tel. +49 (0)941 943 4631(4630); Fax: +49 (0)941 943 4121
Website: http://www-oc.chemie.uni-regensburg.de/reiser/index.html
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Interests: asymmetric catalysis; stereoselective synthesis; natural product; synthesis; unnatural amino acids; foldamers
Contribution:
Special Issue: Asymmetric Synthesis and Medicinal Chemistry
Prof. Dr. Domenico Ribatti
Dipartimento di Anatomia Umana e Istologia, Università degli Studi di Bari, Piazza G. Cesare 11, Policlinico, 70124 Bari, Italy
Tel. +39 080 5478240; Fax: +39 080 5478310
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Contribution:
Special Issue: Angiogenesis Inhibitors
Dr. Trudy Rodgers
Centre For Applied Pharmacokinetic Research, Room 3.32, 3rd Floor, Pharmacy, Stopford Building, Manchester University, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PT., UK
Tel. +44 0161 275 2355
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Interests: pharmacokinetics; beta-blockers; QSAR; analytical methods
Prof. Dr. Leandros A. Skaltsounis
Department of Pharmacognosy and Natural Products Chemistry, School of Pharmacy, University of Athens, Athens 15771, Greece
Tel. +302107274598; Fax: +302107274594
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Interests: natural product chemistry; structure elucidation; medicinal chemistry; kinases inhibitors; functional food
Dr. Sonia Tucci
School of Psychology, University of Liverpool, Eleanor Rathbone Building, Bedford Street South, Liverpool, L37 2LE, UK
Tel. +44 151 7941121; Fax: +44 151 794 2945
Website: http://www.liv.ac.uk/Psychology/staff/stucci.html
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Interests: behavioural neuroscience; psychopharmacology; neurochemical correlates of behaviour; mechanisms of appetite regulation; brain cannabinoid function in relation to appetite and body weight regulation
Contribution:
Special Issue: Phytochemicals with actions on the Central Nervous System
Dr. Jean Jacques Vanden Eynde
Académie Universitaire Wallonie-Bruxelles, University of Mons-Hainaut, Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, Unit of Organic Synthesis, Faculty of Sciences, 20 Place du Parc, B-7000 Mons, Belgium
Tel. +32 65 373337 (office); +32 65 373338 (lab); Fax: +32 65 373515
Website: http://w3.umh.ac.be/~jjvde/lso.htm
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Interests: heterocycles; microwave-induced synthesis; solvent-free reactions; polymer (insoluble and soluble)-assisted syntheses; combinatorial chemistry; prodrugs
Contribution:
Section: Medicinal Chemistry
Special Issue: Prodrugs
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