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“The 4th International symposium entitled “Current Trends in Drug Discovery Research” (CTDDR-2010) was organized in the sprit of the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd CTDDR (2001, 2004, and 2007) symposia from February 17 to 21st, 2010. The symposium had a focus on the innovative www.selleckchem.com/products/AC-220.html drug discovery approaches for infectious and tropical diseases (malaria, filaria, leishmania, HIV, and

tuberculosis), aging, genetic, metabolic and endocrine disorders (neurodegenerative, diabetes, obesity, CNS- and CVS- related disorders), and reproductive disorders (osteoporosis). The deliberations contained the cocktail of computational endeavors, innovative drug discovery approaches and in-depth analysis of structure-activity relationships (SAR), new drug targets and state of art techniques for the syntheses of organic molecules of biological interest. A preliminary classification of sub-areas for discussions included cellular and buy GW786034 molecular signaling, virtual library design and screening, system biology, drugs from

nature/bioimaging selleck chemical and bioprospecting, molecular approaches to disease therapy, validated therapeutic targets, drug design, synthesis, QSAR, CADD, and CAMM, novel approaches to drug discovery, pharmacokinetics/pharmaceutical sciences, translational research, informatics in drug discovery, and preclinical/clinical trials. The symposium was an outstanding success as it covered the above topics in 56 lectures delivered in 16 sessions, 280 posters presented in 4 poster sessions. It provided a platform Plasmin to about 600 researchers including 45 from other countries including USA, Germany, France, UK, Switzerland, Greece, Hungary, Denmark, Canada, South Africa, Russia, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Hong Kong, Japan, Egypt, Turkey, Australia

and other countries for lively interactions during the 5-day deliberations. In this special issue, a total 68 manuscripts were submitted for publication. The manuscripts were peer-reviewed by at least two experts in the field and 43 manuscripts were successful in navigating the process and were included in this particular issue of Medicinal Chemistry Research. I, as guest editor gratefully acknowledge the reviewers of manuscripts, Mr. A.S. Kushwaha for secretarial assistance, Dr. Stephen J. Cutler, his team and Birkhauser Verlag for providing all out support for successfully bringing out this special issue.”
“Introduction The acridinones represented by imidazo- and triazoloacridinones are a new group of potent antitumor compounds (Cholody et al., 1990, 1992, 1996) from which one of the most active derivatives called as C-1305 has been selected for extended preclinical trials and the other one called C-1311 (for review see Mazerska et al., 1998) is currently undergoing phase II clinical trials as drug SymadexTM (Burger et al., 1996; Den Brok et al., 2005a, b, c).