The Medicinal Chemistry Divisions of the two Belgian Chemical Societies, Société Royale de Chimie (SRC) and Koninklijke Vlaamse Chemische Vereniging (KVCV), are organising every year an international one-day symposium with the aim to update participants on selected areas of pharmaceutical research by specialists in their respective field.

MedChem 2018 will be held on Friday November 23, 2018, in Namur. The programme of the day will include six invited lectures and three oral communications selected from submitted abstracts.

In recent years, this symposium has been gathering around 150 participants at each edition, half from universities, half from industry, both from Belgium and surrounding countries. It has been focussing on topics such as:

• The Many Pharmacotherapeutic Faces of Nucleosides and Oligonucleotides (2017)
• PET & Imaging : From Chemistry Lab to Clinical Applications (2016)
• New Vistas in GPCR Research: the Dawn of an Exciting Drug Discovery Era? (2014)
• Constrained Peptides and Macrocycles – New Opportunities for Drug Discovery (2013)
• From Rapid Dissociation to Irreversible Inhibition – Optimisation of Drug-Target Residence Time (2012)

More information on the conference website.