ACSMEDI-EFMC Medicinal Chemistry Frontiers 2023

Joint Symposium on Medicinal Chemistry

 Boston, MA, United States    June 10-13, 2023

Call for Abstracts

All participants are invited to submit abstracts for scientific communications.

The submitted abstracts will be peer-reviewed for acceptance by the Scientific Committe and, out of the submitted proposals, 18 Oral Communications will be selected for these sessions:

A. Enabling Chemistries for Chemical Biology Research
B. Advances in Targeted Protein Degradation
C. A Focus on Early Career Investigators
D. Chemical Modulation of RNA
E. Computational Approaches to Identify and Target Cryptic and Allosteric Pockets
F. Getting Out of the Starting Block: New Hit Finding and Chemotype Advancement Methods
G. Drug Targets in GPCR Signalling
H. Organic Synthesis Impacting Medicinal Chemistry & Chemical Biology
I. Proximity-inducing Molecules and their Therapeutic Applications

The other accepted abstracts will get the opportunity to be presented as posters.

OC Submission deadline: March 16, 2023
From March 17 to April 25, 2023 included
, abstract submission for posters is still open, but subject to the prior payment of 50.00 USD handling fees.

Abstract acceptance will be notified to all authors by the Symposium Secretariat by end of April.

Your registration is required to access the abstract submission tool, but payment is not mandatory at this stage. However, accepted summaries will be published in the Book of Abstracts of the Symposium only after full payment of the registration fee.

You will always receive an acknowledgement of your abstract submission. If this doesn't occur, please contact us at secretariat@ldorganisation.com or call to make sure that we have received your abstract.

Submission Guidelines

Abstracts must be submitted via the Abstract Submission tool available under the Registration menu on this website. Please note that your registration is required to submit abstracts, but payment is not mandatory at this stage. However, accepted summaries will only be published in the book of abstracts of the symposium after full payment of the registration fee.

In order to submit your abstract, select “Abstract submission” under the “Registration” menu. Log in using your registration number (received upon registration) as well as your e-mail address. Select “Abstract Submission” and “Add”.

  • Paste the title of your abstract in upper cases in the field “Subject”.
  • Select whether you agree to be selected for an oral communication (if applicable) [Save].
  • Under “Authors”, add the number of authors and click on [Add authors]. Fill in each author’s firstname and lastname and tick the main author. If no author is ticked, the submitter will automatically be selected as main author.
  • Add the author’s full address(es) under “Author’s affiliations and addresses”. If several addresses are used, please add reference numbers between brackets at the end of each author’s name to refer to the corresponding author’s affiliation.
  • Paste your abstract text in the field “Abstract content” (text only)
  • To insert a picture, place your cursor into the text where a picture should appear and click on [Insert Image tag]. You can use several images.
  • Under “Pictures”, add the number of images to be inserted and click on [Add files]. Browse your computer to attach the right images. (Please note that if the image is too large, it will be reduced to the A4 page size. If the image is smaller, it will keep its size. Please make sure the image quality is 300 dpi).
  • Under “References”, add the number of references and click on [Add references]. Fill in the number of the references and the reference texts.
  • A temporary number (TempXX) is assigned to your abstract for communication purposes. Please be aware that the definitive Poster or OC number will be communicated in your last information e-mail 1 week before the event.
  • Click on [save]

Click on “PDF preview” to check the result. Please note that the abstract should be one page maximum. Therefore, only the first page on the preview will be taken into account. If the preview shows more than one page, please adapt your page accordingly so that it fits into one page.

You can update your abstract if necessary and save or preview as many times as needed.

The pdf will be inserted in the book of abstract as shown on the preview. Please be aware that it is your responsibility to fill in all data correctly and completely. Any errors in spelling, grammar or scientific fact will be reproduced as typed by the author.

You can have access to your poster via the website and make changes to it, until submission deadline, by using your registration number and email address as indicated at registration.

Poster Presentation Guidelines

A poster number will be assigned to each abstract and will be announced to the first author, after acceptance of the abstract. Poster presenters are responsible for setting up and removing their posters during the symposium.

Posters should be in landscape format, maximum 4ft wide x 3ft tall.