Improve quality of life. Research drug compounds. Formulate, test, and analyze pharmaceuticals. Develop substance guidelines. Review new drug applications and the processes used to create them. With a ...

While there have been many advances in R&D, there is still a large number of drugs that failed in clinical development due to lack of efficacy. This challenge highlights the critical role of ...

How does a recent chemistry undergraduate – aiming for a career in the pharma industry – decide about investing the time and money to pursue a Ph.D.? What should they think about as they make this ...

Medicinal and biomolecular chemistry encompasses the discovery, design, synthesis and characterisation of molecules that modulate biological targets for therapeutic or diagnostic purposes. It unites ...

Medicinal chemistry encompasses the design and synthesis of novel bioactive compounds that have the potential to become drugs. It typically involves cycles of iterative optimization of compounds to ...

John E. Macor knew from an early age that he wanted to be a medicinal chemist. He first became captivated by the power of small molecules after reading an article about the Salem witch trials in high ...

The EFMC-ACSMEDI Medicinal Chemistry Frontiers is co-organised by EFMC (European Federation for Medicinal chemistry and Chemical biology) and ACS MEDI (Division of Medicinal Chemistry of the American ...