Medicinal Chemistry Research - Call for Papers: a Special Issue in honor of Prof. Edmond J. LaVoie

We are delighted to announce this special issue of Med. Chem. Res. honoring Prof. LaVoie, a respected teacher and a well-known and highly regarded medicinal chemist. The special issue will be guest edited by Dr. Matthew Moschitto and Dr. Alex Ruchelman. We would like to invite you to submit a review or research article to this special issue under the broad theme of drug design and discovery. 

We aim for submission by May 1, 2022 and publication of the special issue in summer 2022.

Prof. LaVoie received his B.Sc. in Chemistry from Fordham University in Bronx, NY in 1971 and his Ph.D. in Medicinal Chemistry working with Prof. Wayne K. Anderson at the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1975 and conducted his post-doctoral study with Prof. S. Morris Kupchan in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA from 1975 to 1976. He then joined the American Health Foundation and served as the Section Head of Metabolic Biochemistry and the Associate Chief of its Division of Environmental Carcinogenesis before he moved to Rutgers University in 1988 as a full professor of Medicinal Chemistry in the College of Pharmacy. He served as the Chairperson of the Department of Medicinal Chemistry between 1994 and 2017 and as the Director of the Graduate Program in Pharmaceutical Science between 1997 and 2000. He has received numerous awards including the NIH “MERIT AWARD” (1989-1999), Louis D. King Faculty Award for Outstanding Service to Undergraduate Pharmacy Students (1992, 1996), Teacher Appreciation Award (1994), Johnson and Johnson Research Discovery Fellowship (1994), William Levine Teacher of the Year (1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000), Bartley J. Sciarrone Award for Compassion and Caring in Pharmacy-Rutgers College of Pharmacy from Rho Chi Honor Society (1997), New Jersey Department of Higher Education EOF Champion Award (2002), and Patent Award from Rutgers Office of Corporate Liaison and Technology Transfer for Outstanding Research (1997). He was elected as a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors in 2019. He was a co-founder of TAXIS Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and served as a member of its Board of Directors between 2009 and 2019. He also co-founded Prodaptics Pharmaceuticals, Inc in 2011. He has published over 230 papers and has over 50 issued US patents.

Review articles or Research Articles are all welcome

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