2020 Italian Special Anniversary Collection: Celebrating NMMC 2019 and 40 Years of the DCF‐SCI

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the generous support of pharma-related companies. As in the recent past, NMMC 2019 has been coupled with the 12 th Young Medicinal Chemists Symposium ("Nuove Prospettive in Chimica Farmaceutica", NPCF 12), a parallel event specifically devoted to PhD students and young scientists, operating within academic and nonacademic institutions, which are involved in the various fields of the medicinal chemistry research. The 2019 edition of NMMC was especially meaningful for the Italian scientific community, since it coincided with the 40 th anniversary of the establishment of the Italian Medicinal Chemistry Division (Divisione di Chimica Farmaceutica, DCF) of the SCI. The DCF (now counting 550 members) was founded in 1979 with the objective to advance the science of medicinal chemistry by encouraging and strengthening cooperation among Italian scientists and promoting links with colleagues belonging to the national organizations adhering to EFMC, which had been founded nine years before. The first National Meeting in Medicinal Chemistry took place on December 1979 in Pisa (Figure 2), and, since then, this annual appointment represents the reference scientific event for the Italian researchers working in the field of medicinal chemistry. NMMC 2019 aimed at continuing a long-standing tradition of excellent science in the major research areas of medicinal chemistry, bringing together more than 300 delegates from industry, academia, and government institutions across Europe and throughout the world. The meeting created a forum for indepth, informed discussions, regarding both basic science and applications in medicinal chemistry.

Something New in 22!

“…In 2021, we closed and featured the complete versions of our regional special collections, namely Medicinal Chemistry in Latin America (https://bit.ly/latinxmedchem21), Nordic Medicinal Chemistry (bit.ly/nordicmedchem, and Italian Medicinal Chemistry [2] (bit.ly/italianmedchem2020). Our collaborative special collections also received many excellent contributions and are now online for everyone to enjoy— Metals in Medicine 2021 [3] (bit.ly/metalsmedicine2021) and the François Diederich Tribute Collection [4] (bit.ly/francoisdiederich).…”