Barcelona, June 26, 2007 - Prous Science, in collaboration with the Asian Federation for Medicinal Chemistry (AFMC) will webcast a series of Key Lectures from the 6th AFMC International Medicinal Chemistry Symposium (AIMECS), to be held in Istanbul, Turkey, July 8-11, 2007.

The Internet broadcasts of these important events will be available free of charge from July 25, 2007, at www.prous.com/AIMECS07. Audio recordings with synchronized slide presentations will be posted on the web allowing access to these key sessions 24 hours a day worldwide.

This year's webcast will include key sessions and plenary presentations, as well as video presentations of lectures including:

• Opening Ceremony and Opening Lecture
• Synthesis of Pharmaceuticals through Asymmetric Two-center Catalysis
• Biosynthetic Medicinal Chemistry(ACS session)
• Predictive in silico Methods
• Novel Drug Targets as a Basis for New Drug Development
• Chemistry and Biology for Pharmaceuticals
• Recent Approaches in Anticancer Therapy

The webcast adds a new and exciting dimension to this symposium and makes its proceedings available to a worldwide audience as a resource and reference, creating a virtual memory of the meeting and extending its potential.

Moreover, Prous Science has been entrusted with production of the abstract book, which will be published as a supplement to the Prous Science journal Drugs of the Future. We will also support the Internet Corner, open to all visitors. Furthermore, Prous Science will participate with an exhibitor's stand, and will be pleased to present our latest initiatives, including Integrity®, the first integrated drug R&D information portal.

The 6th AFMC International Medicinal Chemistry Symposium will gather medicinal chemists from all over the world under the banners of the European Federation of Medicinal Chemistry (EFMC), and the American Chemical Society, Division of Medicinal Chemistry (ACSMC) as the participating organizations within this World Summit in Istanbul, the city that bridges the two continents: Asia and Europe.

AIMECS 07 will focus on the design, discovery and development of new pharmaceuticals and novel bioactive molecules. The symposium will include individual sessions on Chemistry, Pharmacology, Drug Metabolism and Toxicology, and Physiology for Pharmaceuticals, as well as Cheminformatics, Bioinformatics and other important topics on Drug Discovery and Development.

About the AFMC

The Asian Federation for Medicinal Chemistry (AFMC) is an independent and voluntary association established in 1992 in Tokyo, Japan, by ten societies/associations from Australia, China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan, free from any political conviction. It represents a scientific cooperation between non-profit-making societies in the medicinal chemistry field in the Asia-Oceania region.

About Prous Science

For more than 40 years, Prous Science has been a trusted source of information on which the biomedical community has depended for the discovery of safer and more effective medicines. The company's products have evolved over the years from print journals to sophisticated electronic products incorporating the latest advances in Information Technology.