Medicinal Chemistry: From Drug Design to Drug Development
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Pharmacology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2025 | Viewed by 7126
Special Issue Editors
Interests: medicinal chemistry; antiproliferative agents; neuroprotective agents; phosphodiesterase inhibitors; antioxidant compounds; protein kinase inhibitors; antibacterial agents
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Interests: medicinal chemistry; antiproliferative agents; antiviral agents; molecular docking; antioxidant compounds; protein kinase inhibitors; antibacterial agents
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Medicinal chemistry and pharmaceutical chemistry represent a reference model capable of fueling a virtuous circuit between environment, growth and well-being. They are a multidisciplinary topics focused on design, optimization and development of new chemical compounds useful as drug. Over the last 20 years, drug design and drug development have proven fundamental for the treatment of many diseases, including cancer, cardiovascular, infectious and neurodegenerative diseases, which today represent the main cause of death in the Western world. This special issue therefore is aimed to collect the updates of medicinal and pharmaceutical chemistry that could support the pharmaceutical development of potential drug. In particular, it is focused on rational design of new organic and inorganic drugs, but also on organic synthesis and reactivity, photochemistry, synthesis of new multifunctional polymeric, metallic and nanostructured materials, advanced methodologies and pharmaceutical technology in the chemical and chemical-pharmaceutical fields. The results reported in the issue will further support medicinal chemistry research to exploit the pharmaceutical potential of new chemical entities.
Dr. Chiara Brullo
Dr. Andrea Spallarossa
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- medicinal chemistry
- biological targets
- drug synthesis
- drug discovery
- pharmaceutical chemistry
- structure-activity relationships
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