title: AIMECS 99--AFMC International Medicinal Chemistry Symposium. 12-15 September 1999, Beijing, China.
abstract: The Third International Symposium of the Asian Federation for Medicinal Chemistry (AFMC) was held in Beijing from 12 to 15 September 1999. The conference covered pharmacology, molecular biology, medicinal chemistry, computational molecular modeling, biochemistry and organic synthesis. Anticancer therapies, HIV protease inhibitors, anti-inflammatory agents, antiviral chemotherapy, influenza A, adrenergic receptors, 5-HT(1D) agonists and biologically active compounds of natural products were the main topics. The synthesis of combinatorial compound libraries in the search for the lead compounds was also presented.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology, Taejon 305-701, Korea. kimyh@sorak.kaist.ac.kr
authors.forename: Y H
authors.initials: YH
authors.lastname: Kim