The 3rd Electronic Conference on Pharmaceutical Sciences

Dear Colleagues,

Due to a limited number of high quality submissions to the 3rd Electronic Conference on Pharmaceutical Sciences (ECPS 2014), and after conferring with the Organizing Committee, the e-conference is postponed until further notice. As several authors have already submitted abstracts or full papers, we still want to offer contributing authors an alternative opportunity to present their work. As such, we invite you to submit a full paper to the special issue "Advances in Pharmaceutical Sciences" in the open access journal Pharmaceuticals.

We hope to organize this e-conference at a later date. The Organizing Committee wants to thank you very much for your interest and support.

All participants will have the chance to exchange their latest research with other experts from the community, bringing novel ideas to drug discovery in these areas.

The e-Conference offers you the opportunity to participate in this international, scholarly conference without the concern or expenditure of travel. In addition, participation is free of charge—both for authors and attendees. Furthermore, the e-conference offers you a rapid and direct exchange with the scientific community, and allows you to receive fast, high quality feedback on your latest work.

The last two electronic conferences in Pharmaceutical Sciences were very successful. We hope you will share our enthusiasm and join us in the 3rd edition of this e-conference.

The 3rd Electronic Conference on Pharmaceutical Sciences will be held at www.sciforum.net/conference/ecps-3, on a platform developed by MDPI to organize electronic conferences.

The e-conference proceedings are sponsored by MDPI and the open access scientific journal, Pharmaceuticals. Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of this e-conference, and selected papers will also be published in Pharmaceuticals.

We hope you will enjoy this 3rd edition and help make it a productive and enjoyable event.

Dr. Marcelo Nieto Chair of the Electronic Conference on Pharmaceutical Sciences Associate Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences School of Pharmacy, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, USA	Dr. Derek J. McPhee Editor-in-Chief of the Journal Molecules Founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal Pharmaceuticals Director of Chemistry, Amyris, Inc., USA

Dr. Marcelo Nieto is a Medicinal Chemist with a vast experience in combinatorial chemistry, natural products and drug design. He has worked in several therapeutic areas such as antiinfectives, opioids and selective estrogen receptor modulators (SERMs). Dr. Nieto received his PhD in chemistry (medicinal chemistry) at the National University of Cordoba, Argentina, followed by a post-doc and a research scientist position at the University of Mississippi where he worked for six years. He moved to SIUE School of Pharmacy in 2006 and he is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences. His current research is focussed on the rational design of combinatorial libraries of potential SERMs compounds.

Dr. Derek J. McPhee is the Senior Director of Technology Strategy for Amyris, a company delivering high-performance alternatives to petroleum-based products across a wide range of consumer and industry segments. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of the international, open access journal Molecules and the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal Pharmaceuticals.