Welcome to the QSAR, Chemoinformatics and Modeling Society (QCMS) website!
Membership of QCMS is open to scientists involved in QSAR, cheminformatics, and modeling for medicinal, agricultural, or environmental chemistry. We encourage and invite all scientists working in these fields to join our Society.
QCMS hosts the European Symposia on Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationships (EuroQSAR). The 25th EuroQSAR Symposium (September 27th – October 1st 2026), entitled “Leveraging Computation for the Discovery of new Medicines”, will be organised in Perugia (Italy) on behalf of QCMS and chaired by Prof. Andrea Cavalli (Cecam-EPFL) and Prof. Gabriele Cruciani (University of Perugia).
The QSAR & Chemoinformatics Society (QCMS) confers the Hansch and Fujita Awards on a biennial basis, with the recipients presenting Award Lectures at the EuroQSAR symposia. Commencing in 2026, these longstanding distinctions will be complemented by the newly established Leo Award.
Upcoming online annual general meeting 2025 and lecture by Prof. Harel Weinstein (Maxwell M. Upson Professor of Physiology and Biophysics at Cornell University) on 20th November 2025 at 16:00 CET.
Details here
Call for Nominations for the Hansch, Fujita, and Leo Awards is Currently Open
QCMS invites nominations for the Hansch, Fujita, and Leo Awards, recognizing outstanding contributions in QSAR, chemoinformatics, and computational drug design.
The deadline for nominations is November 20th, 2025. Awardees will be invited to deliver a lecture at the 25th EuroQSAR Symposium in Perugia, Italy (Sept 27 – Oct 1, 2026).
Read the full call and submission guidelines
About QCMS
The International QSAR Society was founded in 1989 at the QSAR Gordon Conference in Tilton, New Hampshire, USA.
At the 1995 QSAR Gordon Conference, the Society was renamed as “The QSAR and Modelling Society”.
In spring 2007, the Board renamed the Society to “The Cheminformatics and QSAR Society”.
During the 21st EuroQSAR meeting in 2016, the Board decided to draw together all the computational activities covered by our Society since 1989, creating a new Society chaired by Andrea Cavalli called:
QSAR, Cheminformatics and Modeling Society (QCMS).
This change reflected the strong worldwide support for cheminformatics, modeling, and computational activities, as well as the Society’s history and the interest of its current members in furthering these fields.
During the 23rd EuroQSAR meeting in 2022, Rebecca Wade, Andrea Cavalli and Giovanni Bottegoni were elected to the Board of Directors of QCMS and charged with adapting the organizational structure of the society to its activities. The new statute of QCMS was approved in 2024, in Barcelona (Spain), during the 24th EuroQSAR meeting.