The Medicinal and Bioorganic Chemistry Foundation--third winter conference. 23-29 January 1999, Steamboat Springs, CO, USA.

This was the third of an ongoing series of biennial conferences held in a relaxed setting, where medicinal chemists congregated to discuss recent enabling developments in organic-medicinal chemistry and biological findings of relevance to the selection of promising drug targets. Approximately 240 academic, industrial and government scientists gathered for this 5-day symposium devoted to optimization in chemical synthesis, methodologies for parallel array medicinal chemistry, applications of structural biology to drug discovery, impact of genomics technologies on pharmaceutical research, and multidrug resistance (MDR). In addition, a keynote address was delivered by Steven Hanessian (University of Montreal, Canada) on "Synthesis... Where do we go from here?" Sixteen oral presentations were delivered and eight papers were presented in a poster session. The plenary lectures are to be published later this year in special issues of Medicinal Research Reviews.