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Saidashev State Grand Concert Hall, which is one of Austria (5), Switzerland (5), and 18 other countries. the most beautiful cultural centers of Kazan. In addi- Participants were presented with the latest ideas con- tion to two plenary lectures, the results of the con- cerning drugs for the treatment of central nervous gress were summarized, and the final document On system and cardiovascular diseases, chemotherapeu- the Prospects for the Development of Chemistry, tics, combinatorial chemistry and high throughput Chemical Education, and International Cooperation screening, molecular modeling, peptides and pep- was approved. Dr. R. N. Minnikhanov, prime minister tidomimetics, and pharmaceutical biotechnology. In of the Government of the Republic of Tatarstan, addition, 226 posters were presented. addressed the meeting. Following is a list of plenary lectures presented: The next XVIII Mendeleev Congress on General and • “G-Proteins: Targets for New Drugs?”; Walter Applied Chemistry will be held in Moscow in 2007 and Schunack, Free University of Berlin, Germany will be devoted to a centenary of Mendeleev • “Can Drug Metabolism be Predicted?”; Bernard Congresses in Russia. Testa, Institute de Chimie Therapeutique, Universite de Lausanne, Switzerland Professor Oleg Nefedov is head of the laboratory in the N. D. • “A Translational Approach to Preclinical Drug Zelinsk, Institute of Organic Chemistry in Moscow and the president of the XVII Development in Epilepsy”; James P. Stables, Mendeleev Congress. Professor Oleg Sinyashin is director of Director of the National Institute of Neurological the A. E. Arbuzov Institute of Organic and Physical Chemistry in Kazan and chief Disorders and Stroke, Bethesda, USA secretary of the XVII Mendeleev Congress. • “Rational Approaches to the Design of Ligands for Ionotropic Glutamate Receptors”; Tommy N. Johansen, Danish University of Pharmaceutical Joint Meeting on Medicinal Sciences, Copenhagen, • “Passive and Catalytic Antibodies and Drug Chemistry—Kraków 2003 Delivery”; G. Michael Blackburn, Krebs Institute, Scheffield University, Great Britain. by Barbara Malawska and Katarzyna Kiec-Kononowicz The organizers also prepared a rich social program for conference participants, which included a welcome The Polish-Austrian-German-Hungarian-Italian Joint party in a restaurant on the Wawel and sight- Meeting on Medicinal Chemistry took place in seeing tours to major monuments of Krak w. The con- Kraków, , from 15–18 October 2003. This year’s ference was crowned with a reception in the exhibit conference was a continuation of two previous joint rooms of the National Museum of the Cloth Hall. meetings that had been held in , Hungary The program of the conference was released in the (Hungarian-German-Italian-Polish, 2001) and form of a book of abstracts: Polish-Austrian-German- Taormina, Italy (Italian-Hungarian-Polish, 1999). Hungarian-Italian Joint Meeting on Medicinal The meeting was held under the auspices of IUPAC Chemistry (ISDN 83-919157-1-9). The full texts of the and the European Federation of Medicinal Chemistry. plenary and invited lectures will be published in Pure It was organized by the following groups: and Applied Chemistry and in a CD version, which will • Medicinal Chemistry Divisions of the Chemical also include all the posters. Societies of Austria, Germany, Hungary and Italy The meeting proved to be a very successful scien- • Medicinal Chemistry Divisions of the Polish tific event, and an excellent opportunity to exchange Chemical and Pharmaceutical Societies ideas and introduce the most recent research in the • Faculty of Pharmacy, Medical College of the field of medicinal chemistry. The next meeting will be in Kraków held in 2005, with the location t7o be determined. • Institute of Pharmacology of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Kraków Barbara Malawska was a member of the Organizing • Committee of Drug Design and Synthesis of the Committee and is an associate professor at Jagiellonian University, Medical College Polish Academy of Sciences in the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry. Katarzyna Kiec-Kononowicz was the head of the Organizing Committee and is a The conference was attended by 350 participants professor at Jagiellonian University, Medical College and the head of the from 26 countries including Poland (135), Italy (80), Department of Chemical Technology of Drugs. Germany (35), Hungary (16), Russia (8), Turkey (7),

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