The Royal Society of Chemistry Medicinal Chemistry Residential School will cover topics of interest to drug discovery researchers helping to increase understanding of fundamental principles and develop problem solving skills in the area of medicinal chemistry. Our residential school has been running for over 40 years in the UK and has trained some of the world’s leading medicinal chemists working in the pharmaceutical industry. Working with our partners across Europe, China and South East Asia, we are launching, for the first time in Asia, a residential school at the Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica (SIMM) in November 2014.