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EFMC Prizes 2017
24 Prizes
EFMC Prizes
EFMC Roche Studentships
The « EFMC Prize for a Young Medicinal
Chemist in Academia » and the « EFMC Prize
for a Young Medicinal Chemist in Industry »
have been established by the European
Federation for Medicinal Chemistry (EFMC)
to acknowledge and recognise an outstanding
young medicinal chemist working in academia
or in industry within Europe. The prizes
are given annually and consist of a diploma,
€1.000 and an invitation for a short presentation
at an EFMC Symposium. Two nominees
are also identified and acknowledged.
The 2017 Prizes have been conferred on occasion
of the EFMC International Symposium
on Advances in Synthetic and Medicinal
Chemistry (EFMC-ASMC), held in Vienna
(Austria) on August 27-31, 2017.
The winner of the Industry Prize was Philip
Humphreys (GlaxoSmithKline, UK) who
gave a talk on “The Development of Non-Bet
Bromodomain Chemical Probes”. The most
meritorious runners-up were Fabien Lecomte
(UCB, UK) and Mirjana Bukvic (Fidelta,
Croatia).
Christian Gruber (Medical University of Vienna,
Austria) won the 2017 EFMC Prize for a Young
Medicinal Chemist in Academia. At the EFMC-
ISMC’17 Symposium, he gave a talk entitled
“Nature-Derived Peptides as Pharmacological
Tools to Design Novel Therapeutics”. Andreas
Koeberlee (Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena,
Germany) and Vittorio Limongelli (USI Lugano,
Switzerland) have been identified and acknowledged
as runners-up.
One of the goals of the EFMC is to enhance
interactions at the industry/academia interface
and to promote improved cooperation
between the pharmaceutical industry and academia.
EFMC and Roche therefore proposed
an opportunity to broaden the awareness to
European University based chemistry students
of the EFMC activities by rewarding excellence
accomplished during a medicinal chemistry
internship in industry.
The fifth EFMC-Roche studentships were conferred
in Vienna (Austria) on the occasion of the
EFMC International Symposium on Advances
in Synthetic and Medicinal Chemistry (EFMC-
ASMC), held on August 27-31, 2017.
The recipients were Eleen Laul (University
of Edinburgh, UK) and Xinlan Aloise Cook
(University of York, UK). We would like to
congratulate both of them for their fantastic
achievement.
EFMC would like to thank Roche for their contribution
and support, and hopes that other companies
supporting medicinal chemistry internship
students can recognize excellence in this
way. If you are interested in more information,
please contact administration@efmc.info
To find out more on the EFMC Prizes and studentships,
we invite you to visit the EFMC website
www.efmc.info
Rainer Martin, Eleen Laul,
Koen Augustyns, Xinlan Aloise Cook