ACS Inter Ponce Chapter has established this year a Medicinal Chemistry Division. The main goal of Medicinal Chemistry Division is to cover the interests of our membership by promoting the application of the chemistry in the medicinal field by giving information of the discoveries of new drugs and treatments to treat diseases such as cancer. To promote our division and recruit new members, we perform different activities such as orientations on breast cancer, its symptoms and treatments in our campus. The Medicinal Chemistry Division collaborated during the Chemistry Week in “El Paseo de la Princesa” in San Juan and in many schools by giving demonstrations of our new division. Another activity was “Relevo por la Vida” in where we joined as a staff to raise funds for cancer patients, joined patients who survived the disease, and remember those who lost the fight. Also, our division perform workshops to promote chemistry in a creative way by applying medicine, where several topics will be covered on what Medicinal Chemistry is and its related areas, cancer investigations and Down syndrome. The professional development of our members is another important detail that we will be working on by bringing in professionals that gives talks to our student about their experience in their fields. We have scheduled visits to the University Oncological Hospital in San Juan to bring joy to all the patients as well as a visit to the Ponceño Institute Down Syndrome Down. We worked on a health fair with the objective of providing diversity of tests and talks of different diseases and how to prevent them to our community. Even though the division was created recently, we have greatly influenced our institutional community by increasing our chapter membership and awaken their interest to reach graduate schools.

ACS medicinal chemistry division: Promoting a healthy society through chemistry

2019 Spring National Meeting

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