Freitag, 24. November 2017, 16:00 - 17:30 iCal

Prof. Dr. Peter Nussbaumer /

LDC - Lead Discovery Center GmbH., Dortmund, Deutschland

"Challenging Medicinal Chemistry!"

Seminarraum 2 der Fakultät für Chemie
Währinger Straße 42, 1090 Wien

Vortrag


Challenging Medicinal Chemistry!

 

Medicinal chemist (“drug hunter”) is a challenging and fascinating job; “the art and science to craft good drugs” requires skills and knowledge in many different fields.[1, 2] And, it never gets boring: in the recent decades, more dimensions have been added to the complex, parallel multi-parameter optimization process based on new insights, and an ever-growing quantity of data has to be digested and considered by medicinal chemists in their design cycles. Some practical examples of the major challenges in medicinal chemistry will be discussed. A drug is always a compro-mise considering various relevant properties and never the most potent compound out of a series. Computational meth-ods help, but curiosity, intuition and human brain remain the most important ingredients for success in medicinal chem-istry. Furthermore, combining the strengths of academia and industry is the way to tackle future challenges.[3]

 

[1] Peter Nussbaumer, ChemMedChem 2015, 10 (7), 1133-1139. [2] G. Lawton and P. Nussbaumer in Progress in Medicinal Chemistry 2016, Vol. 55, PMCH, UK: Elsevier, pp. 193-226. [3] Peter Nussbaumer and Bert Klebl, Fut. Med. Chem. 2015, 7 (14), 1879-1889.


Veranstalter

Fakultät für Chemie, Institut für Organische Chemie


Kontakt

Brigitte Schwarz
Fakultät für Chemie der Universität Wien
Dekanat
01/4277-52006
brigitte_schwarz@univie.ac.at