160831 2016 Nauta award DiederichDuring the opening session of the EFMC International Symposium on Medicinal Chemistry, Prof. François Diederich (ETH Zürich), received the Nauta Award for Pharmacochemistry 2016:

"For his outstanding contributions to the science of medicinal chemistry. Prof. François Diederich made essential contributions to the fundamental understanding of non-bonding interactions involved in molecular recognition and their application in modern drug design. His scientific work is documented in more than 700 publications and beautifully describes interactions such as sulfur-aromatics, cation-Pi, fluorine interactions and halogen bonding that are actively used by many scientists around the world in the discovery of novel drugs.”

The Nauta Award acknowledges outstanding results of scientific research in the field of Medicinal Chemistry.

The award ceremony was followed by an impressive lecture from Prof. Diederich focusing on: “Molecular Recognition Studies with Chemical and Biological Systems: A Multi-Dimensional Approach to Support Structure-Based Drug Design”.

Our warmest congratulations!

 


Anaëlle Dumas via LinkedIn Swiss Medicinal Chemistry and Chemical Biology (by the DMCCB, Swiss Chemical Society). 29.08.2016