Frontiers in Medicinal Chemistry 2022 Goes Virtual

Abstract

The Frontiers in Medicinal Chemistry (FiMC) meeting, which represents the largest international medicinal chemistry conference in Germany, took place from March 14th to 16th 2022 in a fully virtual format. Organized by the Division of Medicinal Chemistry of the German Chemical Society (GDCh) together with the Division of Pharmaceutical & Medicinal Chemistry of the German Pharmaceutical Society (DPhG) and a “local” organization committee from the University of Freiburg headed by Manfred Jung, the meeting brought together 271 participants from around 20 countries. The program included 33 lectures by leading scientists from industry and academia as well as early career investigators. 67 posters were presented in two poster sessions and with over 20.000 poster abstract downloads. The general organization and the time‐shift function were very much appreciated as demonstrated by almost 600 on‐demand contents retrieved. The online format fitted perfectly to bring together medicinal chemists from academia and industry across the globe.

Collaboration is Key in 23!

“…We capped our visit with a publishing workshop, hosted by board member Maria João Matos, at the University of Santiago de Compostela's Center for Research in Molecular Medicine and Chronic Diseases (USC-CiMUS). Virtual conferences and writing workshops were still major parts of our lives in lockdown in 2022, and so we were active attendees and workshop providers for various meetings and institutes: the German Pharmaceutical Society Annual Ph.D. and Postdoc Meeting, the German Chemical Society (GDCh) Frontiers in Medicinal Chemistry Conference (for which we published the conference report) [2] , the University of Ljubljana student training series, the Walther Straub Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich) seminar series, the CAP-STONE Marie Curie European Training Network Meeting, the Novartis Formulation Project Leaders Forum, and the 2 nd Young Investigator Workshop of the EuChemS Division of Chemistry in Life Sciences, to name a few.…”