Front Cover: Fabulous at Fifteen! (ChemMedChem 1/2021)
David Peralta
Abstract
The Front Cover celebrates ChemMedChem's 15th Anniversary and symbolizes the journal's history and current identity. At 15, ChemMedChem's core content is still traditional medicinal chemistry, represented by the journal's iconic yellow, which is reminiscent of the orginal colors of Il Farmaco, its predecessor Italian journal. However, 15 years on, we've moved past that traditional yellow… Now more than ever, we're opening up to more colors—branching out to include more diverse topics like nanomedicine, biologics, cheminformatics, macromolecular therapy, and therapeutic materials—especially as the definition of medicinal chemistry has become more inclusive and drug discovery projects have become more interdisciplinary these days. The colors also symbolize how the journal is proudly part of the new Chemistry Europe and looks forward to more collaboration with our sister journals in the coming years. Here's to a fabulous fifteen, and more exciting years to come. More information about the anniversary year and this special issue can be found in the Editorial by David Peralta. Cover art by Robert de Angelo A. Bolinas.