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Faculty of Medical Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne NE1 7RU, UK
Interests: antibacterials; organic chemistry; antibiotic resistance; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; Proteomics; drug discovery; assays

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Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011-3111, USA
Interests: antimicrobial drug discovery and development; medicinal chemistry; peptides and peptidomimetics; unnatural amino acids; fluorescent probes; peptide nucleic acids; anticancer drug discovery; phenotypic drug discovery; neurodegenerative diseases
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Department of Drug Addiction Pharmacology, Maj Institute of Pharmacology Polish Academy of Sciences, Smętna 12, 31-343 Kraków, Poland
Interests: cocaine use disorder; cocaine self-administration; NMDA receptors; depression; endocannabinoid system; animal models of depression; oxidative stress; preclinical studies

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Department of Chemistry, College of Arts and Sciences, Xavier University of Louisiana, New Orleans, LA 70125, USA
Interests: drug discovery; therapeutic developments for cancer and neurodegenerative disorders; computational molecular modeling
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Department of Regenerative Science, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan
Interests: stem cell biology; pluripotent stem cell; mesenchymal stem cells

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Department of Pharmacy, University of Salerno, Via Giovanni Paolo II, 132, 84084 Fisciano, Salerno, Italy
Interests: drug discovery; medicinal chemistry; organic chemistry; design and synthesis of bioactive compounds; anticancer agents; anti-inflammatory agents; epigenetic targets; small molecule inhibitors
The Bridge@USC and Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
Interests: medicinal chemistry; heterocycles; supramolecular chemistry; multicomponent reactions; macrocyclic chemistry; click chemistry; fluorine chemistry; sulfur(vi) fluoride exchange (sufex) chemistry
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Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Iuliu Hatieganu”, 400012 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Interests: cancer therapy; anti-infective drugs; molecular mechanisms; drug synthesis; targeted therapies; bioactive heterocycle synthesis; docking and molecular modelling
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Department of Life and Environmental Science, University of Cagliari, Cittadella Universitaria di Monserrato, Monserrato, Cagliari, Italy
Interests: synthetic organic chemistry; medicinal chemistry; drug-like molecules; enzyme inhibitors; HIV-1 RNase H and integrase allosteric inhibitors; synthetic opioid ligands; nematicidal and phytoactive compounds
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Section of Medicinal Chemistry, Department of Drug Sciences, University of Catania, Catania, Italy
Interests: opioid receptors; opioid receptor agonist; Sigma receptor ligand
Department of Biological, Chemical and Pharmaceutical Science and Technology (STEBICEF), University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy
Interests: oxidative stress; nutraceuticals; anticancer drugs; medicinal chemistry; drug design and discovery; molecular modeling; QSAR; pharmacophore modeling; molecular dynamics; docking; HTVS; cystic fibrosis translational readthrough inducing drugs (TRIDs)
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Centre of Experimental Medicine of Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dubravska cesta 9, 84104 Bratislava, Slovakia
Interests: hyaluronan; reactive oxygen species; drugs; antioxidants; biopolymers
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Department of Drug Chemistry and Technologies, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
Interests: epigenetics; HDACs; SIRTs; DNMTs; drug design
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Rega Institute for Medical Research, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Interests: medicinal chemistry; fluorescent probes; antimicrobial drug design; GPCR drug design; neurodegenerative diseases
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Drug Delivery and Disposition Unit, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Interests: oral drug delivery; drug solubilization; in vitro digestion modeling; colloids and surfaces; detergency
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Department of Biomedical Research, National Medicines Institute, Chełmska 30/34, 00-725 Warsaw, Poland
Interests: anticancer agent; cell metabolism; sulforaphane; nutrients; drug development and discovery; nanotechnology; cell death; cancer cell biology; drug–drug Interactions; breast cancer; chemoprevention
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i3S—Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde da Universidade do Porto, Rua Alfredo Allen 208, 4200-135 Porto, Portugal
Interests: cancer drug resistance; extracellular vesicles (EVs) as mediators of cancer drug resistance; anticancer activity of compounds (of natural or chemical origin); impact of the tumor microenvironment on cancer drug resistance; molecular mechanisms for overcoming drug resistance; apoptosis; cancer cell proliferation
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College of Pharmacy, Nankai University, Tianjin, China
Interests: natural product; anticaner; ferroptosis; medicinal chemistry; total synthesis; drug chemical biology; new drug R&D
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State Key Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China
Interests: emerging virus; virus-host interactions; antiviral drugs
School of Pharmacy, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA
Interests: medicinal chemistry; chemical biology; Alzheimer’s disease; drug discovery; neuroinflammation

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Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Steroid Drug Discovery and Development, School of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen 518172, China
Interests: molecular pharmacology and mechanism of drug actions; drugs for the prevention and treatment of cancer; molecular and chemical mechanisms underlying various degenerative diseases; molecular mechanism underlying memory and cognition
Biological Research Center at Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szeged, Hungary
Interests: the investigation of protein-ligand interactions to use it in drug design

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Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Medical University-Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria
Interests: medicinal chemistry; pharmaceutical chemistry; organic synthesis; heterocycles; drug design and discovery; synthesis and structure-activity relationships of biologically active compounds (small molecules); drug metabolism; pharmacokinetics; pharmacodynamics; drug analysis; chromatography
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LAQV-REQUIMTE, Department of Chemistry, University of Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal
Interests: organic synthesis; fine chemistry; medicinal chemistry; pharmaceutical chemistry; drug development; porphyrin; photochemistry; photodynamic therapy; antimicrobial; ceramic materials; decarbonization; synthetic fuels
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