Biography
Daniel Becker earned his PhD at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana and worked in the pharmaceutical industry in Searle, Pharmacia, and then Pfizer as a Project Leader and Research Fellow developing new treatments for cancer, arthritis, and cardiovascular diseases. He moved from industry to join Loyola University Chicago in 2004 where he serves as a full Professor of Chemistry performing research in synthetic organic and medicinal chemistry, especially in the discovery of new antibiotics and treatments for cancer, as well as in supramolecular chemistry. He has published more than 50 scientific papers in various areas of chemistry and is an inventor on over 50 U.S. patents.
Research Interest
Our research is focused on the design and synthesis of metalloenzyme inhibitors and also of serine protease and serine hydrolase inhibitors with antibiotic properties. In addition, we are interested in the synthesis and conformational dynamics of supramolecular scaffolds related to cyclotriveratrylene (CTV) with applications in host-guest chemistry. Other active research areas involve synthetic methodology including cascade reactions and metal-catalyzed functionalization reactions.
Biography
Orazio Nicolotti is Professor of Medicinal Chemistry at the University of Bari. Major interests in molecular and data modeling, drug design, QSAR, predictive toxicology, combinatorial library design, evolutionary algorithms, docking and molecular dynamics. So far, author of 99 research papers, 7 book chapters, 1 international patent. Editor of the book “Computational toxicology” published in 2018 by Humana Press. Principal investigator of many research funded projects and industrial agreements for technology transfer.
Research Interest
Computer Aided Drug Designing

Alex Khomutov
Professor
Engelhardt institute of molecular biology
Russia.
Biography
Prof. Alex R. Khomutov, Ph.D., D.Sci, principle investigator, Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Moscow, Russia. He graduated Chemical Faculty of Moscow State University in 1976. He got Ph.D and later D.Sc. degrees in Bioorganic Chemistry in Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. The main field of the interests are design and synthesis of the inhibitors/unnatural substrates of the enzymes of amino acids metabolism, including those related to biosynthesis and catabolism of biogenic polyamines spermine and spermidine, and investigation of the interaction of these analogues with enzymes and activity in cell cultures. In 2017 he was a chair of Polyamines Gordon Research Conference. A.R.Khomutov is a co-author of more than 120 papers in per-reviewed Journals.
Research Interest
Molecular Biology