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Building Access to Tomorrow’s Medicines: bringing together humans, robots, and artificial intelligence - A Workshop

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will host a workshop exploring the transformative potential of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in chemical sciences and drug discovery. Sponsored by the Chemical Sciences Roundtable, this event will bring together researchers, policymakers, and stakeholders to examine how AI tools can address data biases and democratize pharmaceutical research, potentially reducing drug development costs down from billions of dollars and decades of work.

Sustainable Heterocycle Synthesis via Gold Catalysis: Exploring Amino Acids and Water-Soluble Catalysts

Heterocyclic ring systems are essential in drug design, serving as core structures in many approved drugs. Nitrogen- and oxygen-containing heterocycles, in particular, have become increasingly significant in recent years. Despite the availability of efficient synthetic methods, there is an ongoing need for new approaches that offer higher molecular complexity, better functional group compatibility, and atom economy, using readily available starting materials under mild conditions.

MedChem Tips and Tricks

Produced by the medicinal chemistry focus team of the ACS GCI Pharmaceutical Roundtable, this quick tips guide covers purification, solvent selection, reagents, energy, and resources to make medicinal chemistry more sustainable.