Molecular Modeling : Basic Principles and Applications

Hans-Dieter Holtje is director of the Institute of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the Heinrich-Heine-Universitat Dusseldorf, where he also holds the chair of Medicinal Chemistry. His main interest is the molecular mechanism of drug action. He is especially interested in modeling G-Protein-Coupled receptors, cytochromes, enzymes of therapeutic importance and phospholipid membranes. Wolfgang Sippl is Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the Martin-Luther-University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. He is interested in 3D QSAR, molecular docking and molecular dynamics, and their applications in drug design and pharmacokinetics. Didier Rognan leads the Drug Bioinformatics Group at the Laboratory for Molecular Pharmacochemistry in Illkrich (France) He is mainly interested in all aspects (method development, applications) of protein-based drug design and virtual screening. Gerd Folkers is Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the ETH Zurich. The focus of his research is the molecular interaction between drugs and their binding sites. Besides his work on the molecular mechanism of "conventional" nucleoside therapeutics against virus infection and cancer, his special interest has shifted to immuno-therapeutics.