Privileged Scaffolds in Drug Discovery

Professor Bin Yu obtained his PhD degree from Zhengzhou University and University of Cambridge and currently is a professor of medicinal chemistry at School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhengzhou University. His research interests focus on chemistry driven drug discovery for novel therapeutics. To date, he has published over 120 papers in international high-impact peer-reviewed journals including Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, Organic Letters, Pharmacology & Therapeutics, Journal of Hematology & Oncology, Drug Discovery Today, Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B, etc., 10 of them were published in journal with impact factor (IF) >10.

Professor Ning Li is the associate dean of Chinese Materia Medica of Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, the "Youth talent" of Liao Ning Revitalization Talents Program, the "Talent of Hundred level" of Liaoning Bai Qian Wan Talents Program, the "Leading talent" of both Shenyang High-Level Talent Program and Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. She has focused on the research of chemoprevention of critical diseases, especially the neurodegenerative disease and cancer, through post-transcriptional mechanism on the perspective view of ‘preventive treatment strategy’ of the Traditional Chinese theory. She has hosted seven projects of National Natural Science Foundation of China and published more than 120 SCI papers on famous academic journals, born several prizes like the "First Prize of Provincial Science and technology progress award", and obtained the authorization of 20 invention patents.

Professor Caiyun Fu obtained her PhD degree from Lanzhou university and currently is a professor of biology and deputy director of the College of Life Sciences and Medicine, director of the Research Institute for Polypeptide and Protein Pharmaceutical Products, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University. Her research interests focus on screening and identification of tumor targets and exploration of targeted intervention and developing new drugs of peptides by synthetic biology. To date she has published 34 academic papers as corresponding author or first author in international high-impact peer-reviewed journals, including Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Advanced Science, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy, etc