Plenary Lecture – Chairs: Giulio RASTELLI, Federica PELLATI

9.15-10.00 PL Jean Luc WOLFENDER Université de Genève “New integrated strategies for the rapid and efficient identification of bioactive natural products”

1° session - Chair: Giulio RASTELLI

10.00 – 10.25 Stefano ALCARO Net4Science, Università Magna Graecia di Catanzaro “The multi-target drug discovery paradigm applied to natural product repositioning”

10.25 – 10.50 Corrado PRIAMI Università degli Studi di Pisa “Network-based repurposing”

10.50 – 11.15 Rino RAGNO Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza” “Machine Learning algorithms to derive quantitative composition-activity relationships for chemical mixture. Application to antimicrobial essential oils”

11.15 – 11.45 COFFEE BREAK

2° session - Chair: Federica PELLATI

11.45 – 12.10 Orazio TAGLIALATELA-SCAFATI Università di Napoli “Federico II” “Recent drugs or drug candidates based on plant terpenoids ”

12.10 – 12.35 Giovanna PETRANGOLINI Indena “Botanical extracts for health application: the complexity of phytochemical profiles and the industrial quality ”

12.35 – 13.00 Maria Chiara MONTI Università degli Studi di Salerno “A functional proteomic-based platform to disclose natural products cellular targets ”

13.00 – 14.30 LUNCH

3° session - Chair: Maria Cristina GAMBERINI

14.30 – 14.55 Bruno BOTTA Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza” “Challenging organic synthesis inspired by nature: from natural products chemistry to drug discovery ”

14.55 – 15.20 Daniele PASSARELLA Università degli Studi di Milano “Natural products as building blocks in self-assembled nanoparticles”

15.20 – 15.45 Angelo FONTANA Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Napoli “Marine natural products and development of immunotherapeutics”

15.45 – 16.10 Arianna LOREGIAN Università degli Studi di Padova “Drug Repurposing for Antiviral Therapy: How Far Are We?”

16.10 – 16.30 CLOSING REMARKS