After EATCS was officially founded in 1972 the Bulletin issuer one was edited by Maurice Nivat in 73, issue two by Giorgio Ausiello in 76. I was elected EATCS Secretary and Bulletin editor at the 4 th ICALP (Turku, 1977) The regular appearance (three issues a year) was started by me with issue three: I am happy that some of the logo-design and structure that we introduced (particular the ideas ...

Drug discovery and development is generally done in the commercial rather than the academic realm. Drug discovery involves target discovery and validation, lead identification by high-throughput screening, and lead optimization by medicinal chemistry. Follow-up preclinical evaluation includes analysis in animal models of compound efficacy and pharmacology (ADME: administration, distribution, me...

David B. Saakian, Christof K. Biebricher ,Chin-Kun Hu 2,5 Yerevan Physics Institute, Alikhanian Brothers St. 2, Yerevan 375036, Armenia, Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Nankang, Taipei 11529, Taiwan, 3 National Center for Theoretical Sciences:Physics Division, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan, Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, D-37070 Göttingen, Germany Cent...

Practical chemistry education typically follows one of two different pathways: laboratory classes with set experiments or problem-based learning/experiments (PBL/E) in a less prescriptive practical setting. Modern PBL/E approaches – often in private institutes – place the student into an applied research environment. All these are normally delivered by academics that also assess and feedback on...

Ionomers are a class of polymers which have up to 20mol% of ionic species incorporated into the structure of the organic polymer. These ionic species create interactions or aggregates [1, 2], not present in comparable nonionic polymers, have a profound effect upon the mechanical and physical properties of the polymer. As a result there has been much research in both academia and industry over t...

On December 2, 2004, the Society for Medicines Research held the seventh Trends in Medicinal Chemistry one-day meeting. The meeting brought together speakers from Europe representing both academia and industry and provided an overview of some of the latest approaches being taken in a range of therapeutic areas such as oncology, antiinfectives, CNS disease and reproductive medicine.