Medicinal Chemistry

Medicinal Chemistry, a peer-reviewed journal, aims to cover all the latest outstanding developments in medicinal chemistry and rational drug design. The journal publishes original research, full-length/mini-review articles, short communications, letters, and guest-edited thematic issues covering recent research and developments in ...read more

  • ISSN (Print): 1573-4064
  • ISSN (Online): 1875-6638
  • Volume: 21
  • Issues: 10, 2025
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Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief

Dimitra Hadjipavlou-LitinaDepartment of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Thessaloniki
Greece
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Co-Editor(s)-in-Chief

Andreas Hilgeroth Research Group of Drug Development and Analysis
Institute of Pharmacy
Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Halle
Germany
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Associate Editor(s)

Huba Kalasz Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy
Semmelweis University
Budapest
Hungary
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Regional Editor(s)

Middle East
Mohammad A. Kamal King Fahd Medical Research Center
King Abdulaziz University
Jeddah
Saudi Arabia
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North America
Teruna J. Siahaan Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS
USA
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Oceania
Vasso ApostolopoulosInstitute for Health and Sports
Victoria University
Melbourne
Australia
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Section Editor(s)

Section: Heterocyclic Chemistry and Drug Design
Gopal L. Khatik Medicinal Chemistry
National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research
Lucknow
India
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Section: Virulence
Tong-Bao Liu Medical Research Institute
Southwest University
Chongqing
China
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Section: Nano biotechnology
Mrinmoy De Department of Organic Chemistry
Indian Institute of Science
Bangalore
 India
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Section: Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery
Bin He Guizhou Medical University
Guiyang
China
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Section: Drug Design
Sarkar M. Abe KawsarDepartment of Chemistry
University of Chittagong
Chittagong
Bangladesh
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Section: Design synthesis of small molecules with anti-inflammatory activity
Xin-Hua Liu School of Pharmacy
Anhui Medical University
Hefei
China
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Section: Antimicrobial and Anticancer Drug Discovery
Khondaker Miraz Rahman Department of Medicinal Chemistry
Institute of Pharmaceutical Science
London
UK
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Frontiers Section Editor

Swaran J. Flora National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER)
Raebareli
India
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Section Editor(s)(Special Issues)

Jianbo Sun Department of Natural Medicinal Chemistry
China Pharmaceutical University
Nanjing
China
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Editorial Board Member(s)

Rami Al-HoraniCollege of Pharmacy
Xavier University of Louisiana
New Orleans, LA
USA
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Luisa Di Marzio Department of Pharmacy
University “G. d’Annunzio” Chieti – Pescara
Chieti
Italy
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Gamal A. A. M. Hussein
Department of Natural Product and Alternative Medicine
King Abdulaziz University
Jeddah
Saudi Arabia
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Gerard Marx MX Biotech Ltd.
Jerusalem
Israel
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Robert Musiol Institute of Chemistry
University of Silesia
Katowice
Poland
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Hongbin Sun Center of Drug Discovery
China Pharmaceutical University
Nanjing
China
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Marcos A Vannier-Santos Department of Public Health
Laboratório de Biologia Parasitária, Centro de Pesquisas
Gonçalo Moniz
Salvador
Brazil
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Jing-Fang Wang Shanghai Center for Systems Biomedicine
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Shanghai
China
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Muhammad Zia Department of Biotechnology
Quaid-i-Azam University
Islamabad
Pakistan
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Wolf-Rainer Abraham German Research Centre for Biotechnology
Braunschweig
Germany
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Zahir S. Akhunzada Pharmaceutical Product Development (PPD)
New Brunswick, NJ
USA
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Diego Alves Federal University of Pelotas - UFPel
Pelotas
Brazil
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Pier G. BaraldiUniversita di Ferrara
Ferrara
Italy
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Atul Bhargava Department of Botany
Mahatma Gandhi Central University
Bihar
India
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Syed N.A. Bukhari Pharmaceutical Chemistry
Jouf University
Sakaka
Saudi Arabia
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Daniel J. Canney Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
School of Pharmacy
Temple University
Philadelphia, PA
USA
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Sebastiano Cavallaro Institute of Neurological Sciences
Italian National Research Council
Catania
Italy
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Xin Chen
School of Pharmacy
Changzhou University
Changzhou
China
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Peter Chiba Medical University of Vienna
Vienna
Austria
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Elena Cichero Department of Pharmacy
University of Genoa
Genova
Italy
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Doretta Cuffaro Department of Pharmacy
University of Pisa
Pisa
Italy
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Jianguo Cui Guangxi Teachers Education University
Nanning
China
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Vassilis J. DemopoulosDepartment of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of Thessaloniki
Thessaloniki
Greece
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Laurent Desaubry
Faculty of Pharmacy
CNRS Laboratory of Medicinal Chemistry and Cardio-oncology
Strasbourg
France
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Albena T. Dinkova-KostovaDivision of Cancer Research
School of Medicine
University of Dundee
Dundee
United Kingdom
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Stevan W. Djuric High Point University
High Point, NC
USA
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Tomas Girbes Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences
Universidad de Valladolid
Valladolid
Spain
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Fedora Grande Department of Pharmacy and Health and Nutritional Sciences
University of Calabria
Calabria
Italy
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Brij B. GuptaDepartment of Computer Engineering
National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra
Kurukshetra
India
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Káthia Honório School of Arts, Sciences and Humanities
University of Sao Paulo
São Paulo
Brazil
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Tingjun HouCollege of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Zhejiang University
Hangzhou
China
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Fazlul Huq Sydney Medical School
The University of Sydney
Sydney
Australia
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Josef Jampilek Department of Analytical Chemistry
Comenius University
Bratislava
Slovakia
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Mankil Jung Department of Chemistry
Yonsei University
Seoul
Korea
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Poonam Kakkar CSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research
Lucknow
India
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Konstantinos M. KasiotisDepartment of Pesticides Control and Phytopharmacy
Benaki Phytopathological Institute
Athens
Greece
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Reza Khodarahmi ​Department of Biochemistry
Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences
Kermanshah
Iran
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Kamil Kuca
​Biomedical Research Centre
University of Hradec Kralove
Hradec Kralove
Czech Republic

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Donald J. Kyle Discovery Research
Purdue Pharma L.P.
Cranbury, NJ
USA
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Xinyong Liu Department of Medicinal Chemistry
Shandong University
Shandong
China
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Yonghong Liu South China Sea Institute of Oceanology
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Guangzhou
China
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Ross McGeary
School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences
University of Queensland
Brisbane
Australia
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Enrico Millo Department of Experimental Medicine
University of Genoa
Genoa
Italy
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Maria N. Modica Department of Drug Sciences
University of Catania
Catania
Italy
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Rui Moreira Department of Medicinal Chemistry
University of Lisbon
Lisboa
Portugal
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Kamil Musilek Department of Chemistry
University of Hradec Kralove
Hradec Kralove
Czech Republic
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Gabriel Navarrete-Vazquez Facultad de Farmacia
Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos
Cuernavaca, Morelos
México
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Vincent C.O. Njar 
Department of Pharmacology
Medicinal Chemistry Section
University of Maryland 
Baltimore, MD
USA
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Mark H. Norman Scicon Solutions
Thousand Oaks, CA
USA
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Jose M. Padron Centro de Investigaciones Biomédicas de Canarias (CIBICAN)
Universidad de La Laguna
Tenerife
Spain
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Alessandro ParodiTranslational Medicine Department
Laboratory of Molecular Nanomedicine
Sirius University
Sochi
Russia
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David Pereira Faculty of Pharmacy
University of Porto
Porto
Portugal
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Piero Portincasa Department of Biomedical Sciences and Human Oncology
University of Bari Aldo Moro
Bari
Italy
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Kanchugarakoppal S. Rangappa Department of Chemistry
University of Mysore
Mysore
India
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Abdur Rauf Department of Chemistry
University of Swabi
Swabi
Pakistan
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Amelia P. Rauter Department of Organic Chemistry
Universidade de Lisboa
Lisboa
Portugal
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Veerasamy Ravichandran Pharmaceutical Chemistry Unit
Faculty of Pharmacy
AIMST University
Semeling
Malaysia
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Manfredi Rizzo School of Medicine
University of Palermo
Palermo
Italy
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Vincent M. Rotello Department of Chemistry
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA
USA
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Ahmad R.SafaDepartment of Pharmacology and Toxicology
Indiana University Cancer Research Institute
Indianapolis, IN
USA
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Beatrice Severino Department of Pharmacy
University of Naples
Naples
Italy
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Anver B. Shaik College of Pharmacy
The Ohio State University
Columbus, OH
USA
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Maqsood S. Sheikh Department of Pharmacology
SUNY Upstate Medical University
Syracuse, NY
USA
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Inder P. Singh Department of Natural Products
National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research
Mohali
India
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Jianjun Tan Faculty of Environment and Life
Beijing University of Technology
Beijing
China
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Yusuf TutarDepartment of Biochemistry
Cumhuriyet University
Sivas
Turkey
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Laura Zaccaro Institute of Biostructures and Bioimaging-CNR
Naples
Italy
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Paul ZarogoulidisPulmonary Department
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Thessaloniki
Greece


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Ruiwen Zhang Departments of Pharmacology and Toxicology
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Amarillo, TX
USA
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Jian Zhang School of Medicine
Shanghai Jiaotong University
Shanghai
China
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Guo-Ping ZhouRocky Mount Life Science Institute
Rocky Mount, NC
USA
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Associate Editorial Board Member(s)

Nageswara R. Desaboini Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Pharmacology
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Worcester, MA
USA
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Bilal A. Khan University of Azad Jammu and Kashmir
Muzaffarabad
Pakistan
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Kapil Kumar Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
SVKM's NMIMS (Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies)
Hyderabad
India
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Syed S.A. Shah Department of Chemistry
University of Science and Technology of China
Hefei
China
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Siyamak Shahab
Department of Ecological Chemistry and Biochemistry
International Sakharov Environmental Institute
Belarusian State University
Minsk
Belarus
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