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Report from IUPAC-Sponsored Symposium

 

Hungarian-German-Italian-Polish Joint Meeting on Medicinal Chemistry,
2-6 September 2001, Budapest, Hungary

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by Ernõ Pungor

A Hungarian-German-Italian-Polish Joint Meeting on Medicinal Chemistry was held in Budapest, Hungary, 2-6 September 2001. The conference was organized by the Organic and Medicinal Chemistry Division of the Hungarian Chemical Society and the Medicinal Chemistry Divisions of the Chemical Societies of Germany, Italy, and Poland, with the contribution of the Medicinal Chemical and Pharmaceutical Technological Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the 100-year-old Gedeon Richter Ltd. Prof. Péter Mátyus was the chairman of the meeting, and Dr. János Wölfling was the secretary.

The meeting followed two previous joint meetings held in Taormina, Italy (1999) and Jelenia Góra, Poland (2000). This third meeting was organized by the Organic and Medicinal Chemistry Division of the Hungarian Chemical Society and the Medicinal Chemistry Divisions of the Chemical Societies of Germany, Italy and Poland, with the contribution of the Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Technological Committee of Hungarian academy of Sciences and the Gedeon Richter Ltd, and was sponsored by IUPAC.

Medicinal chemistry is very complex. It contains many areas of chemistry, molecular biology, and material sciences as well as computer science. It plays a central role in drug design, discovery and development. This meeting focused in particular on certain challenging fields in current medicinal chemistry, such as CNS, cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, and new methods of drug research. More than 270 registered participants attended the conference (mainly from the four organizing countries, but scientists from more than 20 countries altogether) and 17 plenary lectures, 9 short lectures and 164 posters from academic and industrial areas were presented and this resulted in a high-level scientific program. The Hungarian-German-Italian-Polish Joint Meeting on Medicinal Chemistry was a successful meeting about the cooperation of these countries. It strengthened the developing of new pharmaceutical products.

Ernõ Pungor is the Chairman of Hungarian National Committee for IUPAC.

<http://www.iupac.org/publications/pac/2001/7309/index.html>

> Published in Chem. Int. 24(2), 2002


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