Chemistry of Antiparasitic Drugs

Dear Colleagues,

I would like to announce an opportunity for you to publish an article about the chemistry of antiparasitic drugs in a Special Issue of Molecules.

New, more specific drugs and ones that are less toxic than those presently used in both medical and veterinary clinics are needed for the chemotherapy of parasitic diseases.

This objective involves different complementary approaches where chemistry is the basis of drug innovation.

Firstly, the identification of new emerging biological targets usually leads to in silico drug design approaches. Secondly, the repurposing of some drugs to the antiparasitic domain opens new possibilities of pharmacomodulations. Thirdly, in order to diminish adverse effects, it is important to modulate the drug biodistribution to concentrate the active principle where the parasites dwell in the host. Thus, chemistry has an important role in designing prodrugs for an adapted drug release and also in molecules having hydrolyzable covalent bonding with adapted drug carriers.

This Special Issue aims to provide a forum for the dissemination of the latest studies including all these approaches based on drug design, chemical synthesis, and the biological evaluation of new compounds.

I hope that you will consider submitting a manuscript for publication in this Special Issue; the deadline for manuscript submission is 31 December 2023.

Kind regards,

Prof. Dr. Philippe M. Loiseau
Guest Editor

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