Program and Abstract

We would like to welcome you to Saskatoon and the University of Saskatchewan for the seventh Western Canadian Medicinal Chemistry Workshop. We established the WCMCW in 2008 to be an accessible, regional meeting that connects researchers from a variety of disciplines who are interested in different aspects of pharmaceutical sciences.

The major goals of the WCMCW are:
To foster research connections between researchers who may not otherwise meet at more traditional discipline-specific meetings; to make research at Western Canadian institutions the focal point; and to provide exposure for students and postdoctoral researchers to faculty from other institutions and the pharmaceutical industry.

It is our hope that we have been successful in achieving these goals
Anyone who has organized a scientific meeting knows that these events would be impossible without financial support and we are grateful to our many sponsors for helping with this initiative. We have listed our sponsors on our website, in the program, and throughout the workshop; please join us in thanking these generous donors.

We hope that our efforts to put together the seventh WCMCW meeting will be both stimulating and productive. We are fortunate to have six excellent invited speakers, each coming from different disciplinary backgrounds, but having common goals of improving the quality, efficacy and safety of pharmaceuticals, which ultimately gets to the heart of this meeting.