ASMC09 in Kiev is being prepared by EFMC (European Federation for Medicinal Chemistry) and ChemBridge Corporation, in the series of events which started with ASCMC04 Moscow followed by ASMC07 St. Petersburg.

Prof. Erick Carreira, ETH Zurich, Switzerland and Dr Scott Biller, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Cambridge, USA, have kindly accepted to be the Chairmen of the Symposium.

The scientific program of the International Symposium on Advances in Synthetic and Medicinal Chemistry will include:

• 28 invited plenary lectures, presented by highly recognized scientists from academia and the pharmaceutical and biotech industry from Europe, USA and former USSR countries.
• 10 short oral communications which will be selected from submitted abstracts
• poster sessions

The scientific program will be complemented by an attractive cultural program in Kiev.

The topics to be covered during this symposium include:

• New Synthetic Methodologies, Total Synthesis of Natural Products and Heterocyclic Chemistry
• Diversity- and Target-Oriented Synthesis and Chemical Biology
• Medicinal Chemistry and Drug Discovery & Development

The program will also include a commercial exhibition and a half-day Business Mini-Symposium “Small Molecule Screening Libraries in Drug Discovery: Experience and Trends”.

The official language of the symposium is English.

Registration and abstract submission will open end of February.