Brazilian Symposium on Medicinal Chemistry

[Carlos Montanari <montana %-% at %-% dedalus.lcc.ufmg.br>]

Announcement:
 Dear colleague,
 It is our pleasure to announce the first Brazilian interdisciplinary
 symposium on Medicinal Chemistry: QSAR and Molecular Modelling,
 organised by the Division of Medicinal Chemistry of the Brazilian
 Chemical Society, to be held at the Federal University of Minas Gerais,
 in Belo Horizonte, from November 11 to 16, 2001.
  The scientific programme will include the following topics:
 1. Perspectives in drug discovery and design of antiprotozoan drugs;
 2. Receptor-based prediction of binding affinities;
 3. Membranes and drug design;
 4. Applications of multivariate QSAR;
 5. Medicinal chemistry of natural products.
 The following speakers have already confirmed their attendance:
 1. Christophe Verlinde, USA
   Protein structure-based design of anti-protozoal drugs
 2. David W. Boykin, USA
   DNA minor groove binders as antiprotozoan agents
 3. Glaucius Oliva, BRA
   Target-directed drug discovery in tropical diseases
 4. John Dearden, UK
   QSAR modelling of toxicity of drugs
 5. Tudor Oprea, SW
 Integrating DMPK and binding affinity predictions: a paradigm shift in
 lead discovery
 6. Ferran Sanz, Spain
 Comparison of biomolecules on the basis of molecular interaction
 potentials
 7. Gerd Folkers, CH
   Designing the keys and engineering the locks: CAMD approaches in gene
 therapy
 8. Antonia Tavares do Amaral, BRA
 9. Roy Bruns, BRA
   Multivariate planning, data analysis and QSAR
 10. Anderson Coser Gaudio, BRA
    Computer simulation of the drug-receptor interaction
 11. Hugo Kubinyi, Germany
   Chemical similarity and biological activity
 12. Otto Richard Gotllieb, BRA
 1999 Nobel Prize nominee
 13. João B. Calixto, BRA
 The role of natural products in the process of drug discovery and
 development
 14. Gabriele Cruciani
 Application of QSPR models in pharmaceutical research
 Abstracts related to these topics are welcome.
 The official language will be English.
 The deadline for abstract contributions is July 23, 2001.
 Please visit our homepage for a continuing update of this programme:
 http://www.qui.ufmg.br/~nequim/qsar/brasmedchem.html
     Carlos Montanari
     On behalf of Organising Committee

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