Advances in Medicinal Chemistry: 2nd Edition
A special issue of Pharmaceuticals (ISSN 1424-8247). This special issue belongs to the section "Medicinal Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2025 | Viewed by 359
Special Issue Editor
Interests: drug development; antiestrogens; in silico; breast cancer; design and synthesis; synthetic methods; amphetamines; anticancer drug design; carbapenem antibiotics; chemistry of drug metabolism; chemistry of drug receptor interactions; design and synthesis of drugs; molecular modelling of estrogen receptor antagonists; pharmacologically active heterocycles
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Dear Colleagues,
As a multidisciplinary research subject, medicinal chemistry involves topics within biology, medicine, chemistry, and other therapeutic fields, ranging from anticancer, antiviral, and antimicrobial agents to molecules that are potentially active in endocrine, inflammation, neurological, cardiovascular, and autoimmune diseases. The numerous advances in this field, ranging from theoretical design and in silico screening to synthetic and analytical methodologies, lead discovery and optimization methods, structure-based drug design, and bioinformatics, are contributing to more efficient and sophisticated strategies to access therapeutic potential.
This Special Issue aims to discuss new knowledge and cutting-edge developments related to all aspects of medicinal chemistry, which will contribute to our understanding of the relationship between molecular structure and biological activity or the mode of action of drugs. Authors are invited to contribute original research papers or reviews that report on the discovery, design, synthesis, identification, and metabolism of biologically active compounds and drug candidates, together with structure–activity relationships and studies that describe investigations of the mechanism of action at the molecular level of these novel biologically active compounds.
Prof. Dr. Mary J. Meegan
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- drug discovery
- novel drug targets
- drug discovery
- drug design and development
- synthetic methods for drugs
- analytical methodologies
- in silico screening
- structure and ligand-based drug design
- structure–activity relationships (SAR)
- drug metabolism
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