Division of Medicinal Chemistry: Call for Abstracts

Submission Deadline: Monday, March 30 2026

Program Chair(s): Corey Hopkins

Note: Submission deadlines are at 11:59 EST on the day posted. Symposia, organizers and deadlines are subject to change. Last updated January 16, 2026.

Title Type Submission Type Organizer Cosponsor Description
A Medicinal Chemist’s Toolbox - Recent Applications of Small Rings in Drug Design (Invited) Oral Invited Small aliphatic and heterocyclic rings are finding higher prevalence in contemporary drug design bas...
Advances in Drugging KRAS: One Mutant at a Time or All of Them at Once! (Invited) Oral Invited KRAS is the most frequently mutated oncogene in cancer and has long been at the forefront of academi...
Advancing PROTAC Drug Discovery: Bridging Medicinal Chemistry and PK/PD Modeling for Safer Drugs (Invited) Oral Invited Proteolysis Targeting Chimeras (PROTACs) represent a rapidly expanding field in drug discovery, as e...
From Link to Lead: The Impact of Linkers on Drug Discovery (Invited) Oral Invited The field of drug discovery continues to evolve at an unprecedented pace, driven by innovations in m...
From Molecules to Medicines: 150 Years of Innovation Oral Invited
Hidden Switches: Harnessing Allosteric Control in Medicinal Chemistry (Invited) Oral Invited Allosteric modulation offers a transformative approach in drug discovery by enabling selective regul...
Industrial Early Career Investigator Award Symposium Oral Invited
Machine Learning and AI for Organic Chemistry Oral Contributed This symposium will focus on the application of data science and machine learning techniques to the ...
MEDI Awards Sessions (Invited) Oral Invited
MEDI Celebrates the ACS at 150! Celebration of the Impact of Oncologic and Antiviral Drugs on Human Health (Invited) Oral Invited The 150th anniversary of ACS highlights a century and a half of chemists transforming fundamental di...
MEDI First Time Disclosures (Invited) Oral Invited
MEDI General Oral Session Oral Contributed
Molecular Data Representation for ML/AI Studies - (How to Retain Conformation and Stereochemistry Information) Oral Contributed One of the biggest challenges in developing machine learning models is the 3D molecular representati...
Resurgence of GPCRs as Drug Targets in Medicinal Chemistry (Invited) Oral Invited G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are a major focus in drug discovery, with 36% of approved drugs ...
Synthesis Enabling Modern Medicinal Chemistry Oral Invited
MEDI Poster Session Poster Contributed
Therapeutic Peptides: From Bench to Bedside (Invited) Oral Invited
  • ORGN: Division of Organic Chemistry
  • AGRO: Division of Agrochemicals
Peptide therapeutics have garnered significant attention in both the scientific community and the pu...