Mini-Reviews in Medicinal Chemistry

Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief

Tiziano TuccinardiDepartment of Pharmacy
University of Pisa
Pisa
Italy

Co-Editor(s)-in-Chief

Davide Barreca Department of Chemical, Biological
Pharmaceutical and Environmental Sciences
University of Messina
Messina
Italy

Muhammad I. Choudhary International Center for Chemical and Biological Sciences

University of Karachi
Karachi
Pakistan

Alessandro Granito University of Bologna
Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences
Bologna
Italy

Associate Editor

David Y. W. Lee Bio-Organic and Natural Product Laboratory
Harvard Medical School
Belmont, MA
USA

Regional Editor(s)

Asia

Jih R. Hwu Organosilicon and Synthesis Laboratory
Department of Chemistry
National Tsing Hua University
Hsinchu
Taiwan

Shalom Sarel Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Jerusalem
Israel

Europe

Alain Gueiffier Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences
University of Tours
Tours
France

Stephen M. Husbands Department of Pharmacy and Pharmacology
University of Bath
Bath
UK

Bernard J. MasereelDepartment of Pharmacy
University of Namur
Namur
Belgium

Nikos Tagmatarchis National Hellenic Research Foundation
Theoretical and Physical Chemistry Institute
Athens
Greece

North America

Ramaiah Muthyala Center for Orphan Drug Research
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN
USA

Section Editor(s)

Section: Computational Algorithms

Anna Artese Department of Health Sciences
University "Magna Græcia" of Catanzaro
Catanzaro
Italy

Section: Clinical and Forensic Toxicolog

Francesco P. Busardò

Department of Biomedical Sciences and Public Health

Polytechnic University of Marche

Ancona

Italy

Section: Antimicrobial Drug Development

Debprasad Chattopadhyay ICMR-National Institute of Traditional Medicine
Karnataka
India

Section: Green Techniques for Organic Synthesis and Medicinal Chemistry

Maria Luisa Di GioiaDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences
University of Calabria
Rende
Italy

Section: Biological Activity of Natural Products

Marcello Iriti Department of Biomedical Surgical and Dental Sciences
University of Milan
Milan
Italy

Section: Nanomaterials and Bioimaging

Jianhua Liu Department of Radiology
The Second Hospital of Jilin University
Changchun
China

Section: Heterocyclic Compounds in Drug Discovery

Giovanna Poce Department of Chemistry and Technologies of Drug
Sapienza University of Rome

Rome
Italy

Section: Anti-Tumor Agents

Virginia Spano Department of Biological, Chemical, and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technologies (STEBICEF)
University of Palermo
Palermo
Italy

Section: Solid Tumors

Wenwen Zhang Department of Oncology
Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University
Nanjing
China

Frontiers Section Editor

Section: Molecular Modelling and Purinergic Receptors

Diego D. Ben School of Pharmacy
University of Camerino
Camerino
Italy

Section Editor(s)(Special Issues)

Zhidong Hu

Department of Scientific Research

Shanghai Public Health Clinical Centre

Fudan University

Shanghai

China

Dmitry A. Kuznetsov

Department of Medicinal Nanobiotechnologies

School of Biomedicine

Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University

Moscow

Russia

Roberto Scatena

Department of Clinical Pathology
Vannini Hospital

Catholic University

Rome

Italy

Rajeev K.Singla

Institutes for Systems Genetics

Sichuan University West China Hospital

Chengdu

China

Editorial Board Member(s)

Margot Paulino Facultad de Química-UDeLaR
Universidad de la Republica
Montevideo
Uruguay

Andrew D. Abell Department of Chemistry
School of Physical Sciences
University of Adelaide
Adelaide
Australia

Kelong Ai Xiangya School of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Central South University
Changsha
China

Feifei An Department of Biophysics
Xi’an Jiaotong University
Xi’an
China

Adeyemi O. Aremu Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) Centre
North West University
Potchefstroom
South Africa

Hanem M. AwadTanning Materials and Leather Technology Department
National Research Centre
Cairo
Egypt

Mahmoud Bahmani Biotechnology and Medicinal Plants Research Center
Ilam University of Medical Sciences
Ilam
Iran

Younis Baqi Department of Chemistry
Sultan Qaboos University
Muscat
Oman

Gil Bar-Sela Division of Oncology
Rambam Health Care Campus
Haifa
Israel

Ioana B. Neagoe Research Center for Functional Genomics, Biomedicine and Translational Medicine
Iuliu Hatieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy
Cluj Napoca
Romania

Sandip B. Bharate Medicinal Chemistry Division
CSIR-Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine
Jammu and Kashmir
India

Yuri V. Bobryshev Faculty of Medicine

University of New South Wales
Sydney
Australia

Monica V. Butnariu Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry Discipline
Banat's University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine
Timisoara
Romania

Alessia C. Carocci Department of Pharmacy-Drug Science
University of Bari Aldo Moro
Bari
Italy

Simone Carradori Department of Pharmacy
University of G. d’Annunzio Chieti and Pescara
Chieti
Italy

Gianni Colotti Department Biochemical Sciences
Sapienza University of Rome
Rome
Italy

Guido Crisponi Department of Chemical and Geological Sciences
University of Cagliari
Cagliari
Italy

Mengchao Cui College of Chemistry
Beijing Normal University
Beijing
China

Alessandro Desideri Department of Biology
University of Rome "Tor Vergata"
Rome
Italy

Kasi P. Devi Department of Biotechnology
Alagappa University-Science Block
Karaikudi
India

Enrique Domínguez-Álvarez Department of Synthesis, Structure and Properties of Organic Compounds
Institute of General Organic Chemistry - CSIC
Madrid
Spain

Gyorgy Dorman
Targetex Biosciences
Dunakeszi
Hungary

Vera L. Eifler-Lima Faculty of Pharmacy
Federal University of Rio Grande Do Sul
Porto Alegre
Brazil

André R. Fajardo Department of Chemistry
Federal University of Pelotas
Pelotas
Brazil

Lian-Shun Feng WuXi AppTec (Wuhan) CO., LTD
Wuhan
China

Luca Ferraro Department of Life Sciences and Biotechnology
University of Ferrara
Ferrara
Italy

Matilde Y. Follo Department of Biomedical and Neuromotor Sciences Cellular Signalling Laboratory
University of Bologna
Bologna
Italy

Vittorio Gentile Department of Precision Medicine
University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli"
Naples
Italy

Lia Ginaldi Allergology and Clinical Immunology
L’Aquila University
L’Aquila
Italy

Fedora Grande Department of Pharmacy and Health and Nutritional Sciences
University of Calabria
Calabria
Italy

Oliver Grundmann Department of Medicinal Chemistry
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL
USA

Shuang-Xi GuSchool of Chemical Engineering and Pharmacy
Wuhan Institute of Technology
Wuhan
China

Girish K. Gupta Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
Sri Sai Group of Institute
Pathankot
India

Solomon Habtemariam
Pharmacognosy Research Laboratories & Herbal Analysis Services
University of Greenwich
Kent
UK

Andreas Hilgeroth Research Group of Drug Development and Analysis
Institute of Pharmacy
Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Halle
Germany

Sabrin R .M. Ibrahim Department of Pharmacognosy and Pharmaceutical Chemistry
Taibah University
Madinah
Saudi Arabia

Jamshed Iqbal Department of Pharmacy
COMSATS University
Abbottabad
Pakistan

Ankit Jain
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Harisingh Gour Central University
Sagar
India

Vikas Jaitak Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Natural Products
Central University of Punjab
Bathinda
India

Zhiyong Jiang Chemistry Department
Henan Normal University
Xinxiang
China

Sheng Jiang Department of Medicinal Chemistry
China Pharmaceutical University
Nanjing
China

Cláudio V. JuniorInstitute of Chemistry
Laboratory of Research on Medicinal Chemistry
Federal University of Alfenas
Alfenas
Brazil

Jagat R. Kanwar Faculty of Health
Deakin University
Geelong
Australia

Imtiaz A. Khan Department of Chemistry
The University of Manchester
Manchester
UK

Md. Asaduzzaman Khan Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Boston University
Boston, MA
USA

Haroon Khan Department of Pharmacy
Abdul Wali Khan University
Mardan
Pakistan

Venkata B. KonkimallaSchool of Biological Sciences
National Institute of Science Education & Research (NISER)
Bhubaneswar
India

Ioannis K. Kostakis Department of Pharmacy
University of Athens
Athens
Greece

Kamil Kuca

Biomedical Research Centre

University of Hradec Kralove

Hradec Kralove

Czech Republic

Vinod Kumar Department of Chemistry
Central University of Haryana
Jant-Pali
India

Enza Lacivita Department of Pharmacy-Drug Sciences
University of Bari
Bari
Italy

Oleg V. Larionov Department of Chemistry
University of Texas at San Antonio
San Antonio, TX
USA

Antonio Lauria Department of Biological, Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technologies (STEBICEF)
University of Palermo
Palermo
Italy

Marcello Leopoldo Department of Pharmacy
University of Bari Aldo Moro
Bari
Italy

Xiangtao Li College of Computer Science
Northeast Normal University
Jilin
China

Dahong Li Department of Medicinal Chemistry
Shenyang Pharmaceutical University
Shenyang
China

Jian-Qiang Liu School of Pharmacy
Guangdong Medical University
Zhanjiang
China

Giuseppe Losurdo School of Gastroenterology
University of Bari
Bari
Italy

Laura De Luca Department of Chemical, Biological, Pharmaceutical and Environmental Sciences
University of Messina
Messina
Italy

Pengcheng Lv School of Life Sciences
Nanjing University
Nanjing
China

Mohamad F. MahomoodallyDepartment of Health Sciences
University of Mauritius
Moka
Mauritius

Sarel MalanSchool of Pharmacy
University of the Western Cape
Bellville
South Africa

Alejandro R. MartínezDepartment of Toxicology and Pharmacology

Complutense University of Madrid

Madrid
Spain

Michal Masarik Faculty of Medicine
Masaryk University
Brno
Czech Republic

Antonino MazzagliaDepartment of Chemical, Biological, Pharmaceutical and Environmental Sciences
National Council of Research - Institute of Nanostructured Materials( CNR-ISMN)
University of Messina
Messina
Italy

Parayanthala V. Mohanan Toxicology Division
Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology
Thiruvananthapuram
India

Adriano Mollica Department of Pharmacy
University of G. d'Annunzio Chieti and Pescara
Chieti
Italy

Hari N. Moorthy Department of Pharmacy
Indira Gandhi National Tribal University
Amarkantak
India

Naveen Mulakayala Institute of Life Sciences
SVAK Life Sciences
Hyderabad
India

Seyed M. Nabavi Applied Biotechnology Research Center
Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences
Tehran
Iran

Kunal Nepali Department of Medicinal Chemistry
Taipei Medical University
Taipei
Taiwan

Orazio Nicolotti Department of Pharmacy
University of Bari
Bari
Italy

Valeria M. Nurchi Department of Chemical Sciences
University of Cagliari
Cagliari
Italy

Liang Ouyang State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy and Cancer Center
Sichuan University
Chengdu
China

Vittorio Pace
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry

University of Vienna

Vienna

Austria

Jiangnan Peng Department of Chemistry
Morgan State University
Baltimore, MD
USA

Valeria Pittalà Department of Drug and Health Science
University of Catania
Catania
Italy

Miroslav Pohanka Centre of Advanced Studies Faculty of Military Health Sciences
University of Defence
Brno
Czech Republic

Selvaraj M. Prabu Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science
Annamalai University
Annamalainagar
India

Azhar Rasul Department of Zoology
Government College University
Faisalabad
Pakistan

Eleni A. Rekka School of Pharmacy
Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki
Thessaloniki
Greece

Giovanni Ribaudo Department of Molecular and Translational Medicine
University of Brescia
Brescia
Italy

Juan B. Rodriguez Departamento de Química Orgánica
Universidad de Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires
Argentina

Blazej Rubis Department of Clinical Chemistry and Molecular Dignostics
Poznan University of Medical Sciences
Poznań
Poland

Ji H. Ryu Department of Carbon Fusion Engineering
Wonkwang University
Iksan
South Korea

Mina Saeedi Persian Medicine and Pharmacy Research Center
Tehran University of Medical Sciences
Tehran
Iran

Roberto Di SantoDepartment of Medicinal Chemistry at the Chemistry and Technology of Drug

University of Rome “La Sapienza”

Rome

Italy

Marcus T. Scotti Department of Chemistry
Federal University of Paraíba
João Pessoa
Brazil

Yuk Sham Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology, Medical School
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN
USA

Rajesh K. SinghDepartment of Pharmaceutical Chemistry

Shivalik College of Pharmacy

Punjab Technical University

Jalandhar

India

Eduardo Sobarzo-SánchezFaculty of Health Sciences

Health Research and Innovation Institute

Central University of Chile

Santiago

Chile

Sabrina TalianiDepartment of Pharmacy
University of Pisa
Pisa
Italy

Seyithan TaysiDepartment of Medical Biochemistry
Medical School
Gaziantep University
Gaziantep
Turkey

Khac-Minh Thai

Faculty of Pharmacy

University of Health Sciences

Vietnam National University

Ho Chi Minh

Vietnam

Salam J.J. Titinchi Department of Chemistry
University of the Western Cape
Cape Town
South Africa

Marianna Torok Department of Chemistry
University of Massachusetts Boston
Boston, MA
USA

Frank R. Wuest Department of Oncology
University of Alberta
Edmonton
Canada

Hui Xu Research Institute of Pesticidal Design & Synthesis
Northwest A&F University
Yangling
China

David T.W. Yew Brain Research Centre
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Shatin
Hong Kong

Andrey A. Zamyatnin Jr.

Faculty of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics

Lomonosov Moscow State University

Moscow

Russia

Liqun Zhang Organic-Inorganic Composites
Beijing University of Chemical Technology
Beijing
China

Associate Editorial Board Member(s)

Mirjana Čolović Department of Physical Chemistry
Institute of Nuclear Sciences “Vinča“
University of Belgrade
Belgrade
Serbia

Khurshid Ahmad Department of Medical Biotechnology
Yeungnam University
Gyeongsan
South Korea

Mohammad ArshadApplied Studies & Research Unit

Al-Fayha College

Al-Jubail
Saudi Arabia

Atul Bhargava Department of Botany
Mahatma Gandhi Central University
Bihar
India

Sandipan Chakraborty Department of Physical Chemistry
Indian Association for the Cultivation of Sciences
Kolkata
India

Hamid Emadi Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry
University of Mazandaran
Babolsar
Iran

Tomasz M. Karpinski Department of Medical Microbiology
Poznań University of Medical Sciences
Poznań
Poland

Shaoyong Ke National Biopesticide Engineering Research Center
Hubei Academy of Agricultural Sciences
Wuhan
China

Habibullah Khalilullah Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry & Pharmacognosy
Qassim University
Buraydah
Saudi Arabia

Joanna I. Lachowicz Department of Chemical and Geological Sciences
University of Cagliari
Cagliari
Italy

Qianbin Li Department of Medicinal Chemistry
Central South University
Changsha
China

Zhengchun Liu Department of Electronic Information Science and Technology
School of Physics and Electronics
Central South University
Changsha
China

Arindam Maity School of Pharmaceutical Technology
Adamas University
Kolkata
India

Xavier Y. Mbianda Department of Applied Chemistry
University of Johannesburg
Johannesburg
South Africa

Bilal A. Mir Department of Botany
University of Kashmir
Srinagar
India

Niladri Mukherjee Department of Animal Science
Kazi Nazrul University
Asansol
India

Pradeep R. Nareddy H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute
Tampa, FL
USA

Milan M. Obradovic Department of Radiobiology and Molecular Genetics
Institute of Nuclear Sciences “Vinca”
Belgrade
Serbia

Seong-Lin Teoh Department of Anatomy
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Center (UKMMC)
Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia

Lei Zhao Department of Infectious Disease
Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Wuhan
China

Executive Guest Editor(s)

Shaban Ahmad

Computational Intelligence and Bioinformatics Lab

Jamia Millia Islamia

New Delhi

India

Pratibha B. Auti Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
Sinhgad Institute of Pharmacy
Pune
India

Senthamaraikannan Kabilan Department of Chemistry
Annamalai University
Chidambaram
India

Marcos Roberto de Oliveira

Departamento de Bioquímica

Instituto de Ciências Básicas da Saúde (ICBS)

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)
Porto Alegre

Brazil

Alla P. Toropova Department of Environmental Health Science
Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research
Milan
Italy

Wei Wang

Key Laboratory on Technology for Parasitic Disease Prevention and Control

Jiangsu Institute of Parasitic Diseases

Jiangsu

China

Xian-Fu Wu National Institutes for Food and Drug Control
Beijing
China

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