The MIKIW Meeting-in-Miniature is an annual medicinal chemistry conference held between the Departments of Medicinal Chemistry/Pharmaceutical Sciences at the Universities of Minnesota, Illinois at Chicago, Kansas, Iowa, and, as of 2018, Wisconsin. Founded in 1963, this annual student-run conference is alternately hosted by the member institutions and is a unique aspect of graduate education at these universities. These Midwestern institutions have served as the cradle of academic medicinal chemistry in the United States. Indeed, some of the original founders of the first meeting are well-known names in the field of medicinal chemistry: Bauer, Cannon, Gisvold, Portoghese, and Smissman, among others. More than just a small regional meeting, MIKIW and its current and former students and faculty have had a big impact on the practice of medicinal chemistry.
In honor of the 60th anniversary of the MIKIW Meeting-in-Miniature, ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters and Journal of Medicinal Chemistry are pleased to issue a call for papers for a joint Virtual Special Issue celebrating this milestone. Current and former faculty and students of MIKIW departments, as well as MIKIW keynote speakers, are invited to submit manuscripts for consideration for this Virtual Special Issue.
Please consider the relevant instructions to authors before submitting a manuscript. ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters invites Letters, Microperspectives, Innovations, Topical Innovations, Technology Notes, Notes, and Viewpoints. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry is interested in receiving original Research Articles, Perspectives, or Drug Annotations. Please refer to the Author Guidelines for additional details on manuscript length, figures and tables, and number of references.
Submissions must be received by June 30, 2023, and the collection will be published in 2023. The Virtual Special Issue format means that articles will be published in the next available regular issue shortly after acceptance. Once most articles for the Virtual Special Issue have been accepted, they will be collected on a dedicated Web site, which provides additional exposure of the articles.
We welcome pre-submission inquiries, which can be sent to
ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters: eic@medchemlett.acs.org
Journal of Medicinal Chemistry: jmc@jmedchem.acs.org
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