4Greek History and Culture Study Group invites you to a two-session panel discussion with the participation of several members of our academic community\, in fond memory of its founding member\, Vangelis Kechriotis after whom the Group will be named. \;

Decades of drug-discovery research have shown that drug molecules that need to cross the cell membrane exhibit a relatively narrow range of physicochemical properties\, e.g.\, molecular mass\, hydrophobicity and polarity. A recent survey of a dataset of human approved drugs has found that 27% of these are aliphatic amines and 20% are carboxylic acids [1\,2]. In an aqueous environment at neutral pH\, aliphatic amines have a propensity to be protonated and carry an electric charge of +1e.

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