ChemPubSoc Europe News, November 2018

Element Video Competition- Submit your video and have the chance to win an iPad

You are invited to share a video (max. 3 min) showing an element or an element in its compounds in a visually appealing way. Focus on one aspect, such as properties, something special, beautiful, an application. Showcase your creativity and have the chance to win an iPad. 

Click here for more information and an example video.

EurJOC: We Continue our Series of European Institute Features with IOCB Prague and ICSN Gif-sur-Yvette

EurJOC’s series of European Institute Features highlights the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences (IOCB) in Prague, Czech Republic and the Institut de Chimie des Substances Naturelles (ICSN) in Gif-sur-Yvette, France. EurJOC is pleased to bring to you two special issues presenting the excellent research performed at both institutes. Introductions to the history of both institutes as well as their research areas are given in the Guest Editorials by Zdeněk Hostomský (IOCB) and Angela Marinetti (ICSN).
Discover more: IOCB Prague, ICSN Gif-sur-Yvette.

More information:
IOCB Prague
ICSN Gif-sur-Yvette

David Spichiger, SCS
22.11.2018

EuChemS Brussels News Updates, November 2018

The November edition of Brussels News Updates brings you all the latest from our Brussels EuChemS office, upcoming events, and activities!

The last few weeks have seen a flurry of activity, from our workshop in the European Parliament to taking part in the EU Circular Economy missions to Japan and Indonesia, without forgetting updates on Horizon Europe, ‘Plan S’, important European Parliament votes on plastics and antibiotic resistance, and more besides.

And don’t forget, nominations for the EuChemS Award for Service, and the EuChemS Lecture Award are open! It’s a great opportunity to show your appreciation for someone’s outstanding work (deadline: 31 December 2018).

You can also read the full newsletter online here.

Webinar: Accelerating innovation and process improvement, Dec 6, 2018

Join us on 6 December to learn how modern experimentation methods can increase your process understanding, allowing you to develop new products and boost your R&D output.

Details and Registration

Building robust process understanding is critical to developing a dynamic product portfolio and increasing R&D output. This webinar will introduce data-driven experimentation practices that can help you develop processes predictably and meet key project milestones.

A case study will show how chemical technology development startup Novomer transformed their experimentation strategy with state-of-the-art statistical methods in a way that not only streamlined R&D processes, but ultimately led to a successful acquisition.

During this webinar you will learn:

• how easy it is to get started with methods that streamline your work and yield more reproducible results
• how to increase product or process understanding through modern experimentation
• how to motivate your organisation to give modern experimentation a try

Speaker: Malcolm Moore, European technical manager, JMP
Moderator: Benjamin Valsler, Digital editor, Chemistry World magazine

JMP has been a part of SAS since the first version of JMP statistical discovery software was launched in 1989, bringing interactive data visualization and analysis to the desktop. SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. Through innovative solutions, SAS helps customers at more than 60,000 sites improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster. Since 1976 SAS has been giving customers around the world THE POWER TO KNOW®.

David Spichiger, SCS
20.11.2018

SCS Award Winners 2019

It’s our pleasure to announce the winners of the 2019 SCS Awards. We would like to sincerely congratulate all winners and we are looking forward to the ceremonies that will take place at one of our events during the year.

The Swiss Chemical Society awards the following awardees:

Werner Prize 2019

Prof. Jeremy Luterbacher, EPFL Lausanne, for his original and groundbreaking research on chemical conversion of plant material using protection group chemistry during biomass depolymerization and upgrading.

The award lecture will take place at the SCS Spring Meeting in Dübendorf on April 5, 2019.

All Werner Prize Winners since 1936

Grammaticakis-Neumann Award 2019

Prof. David Sarlah,
University of Illinois, Urbana (USA),
for his great achievements is the development of photochemical dearomatization of nonactivated arenes that allows for a rapid incorporation of oxygen, nitrogen and carbon functionality with exquisite stereocontrol.

The award lecture will take place at the SCS Fall Meeting in Zurich on September 6, 2019.

All Grammaticakis-Neumann Award Winners since 1985

Sandmeyer Prize 2019

Dr. Michael Berg, Dr. Stephan Hug, Dr. Annette Johnson (in memoriam), Dr. Andreas Voegelin and Prof. Lenny Winkel,
from the Eawag, Dübendorf,
for their experimental and modelling studies on drinking water contamination by arsenic and other geogenic elements with an enormous impact not only in Switzerland but around the globe.

The award lecture will take place at the Freiburger Symposium in Fribourg, on May 17, 2019 and at the SCS Fall Meeting in Zurich on September 6, 2019.

All Sandmeyer Prize Winners since 1994

SCS Senior Industrial Science Award 2019

The Swiss Chemical Society awards
Dr. Fabrice Gallou, Novartis Pharmaceuticals AG, Basel,
in recognition of his outstanding track record of innovation and creativity in the field of organic synthesis and for his leadership in coaching and mentoring of young scientists at Novartis.

The award lecture will take place at the SCS Fall Meeting in Zurich on September 6, 2019.

SCS Industrial Science Award 2019

The Swiss Chemical Society awards 
Dr. Christoph Boss, Idorsia Pharmaceuticals Ltd., Allschwil,
to honor his outstanding contributions as medicinal chemists with remarkable analytical skills and an excellent flair for multidimensional lead optimization taking into consideration all aspects of modern medicinal chemistry. 

The award lecture will take place at the SCS Fall Meeting in Zurich on September 6, 2019.

All winners of one of the SCS Industrial Science Awards since 2013

Balmer Prize 2019

Dr. Rita Oberholzer,
Kantonsschule im Lee, Winterthur,
for developing and implementing an innovative and, in the meantime well-established, experiment of anodizing Caran d’Ache pens that can be easily used in a short hands-on training at Gymnasium level.

The award lecture will take place at the ChemEdu Meeting in Zurich on September 6, 2019.

All Balmer Prize Winners sind 2010

Dr. Max Lüthi Award 2019

Ms. Sandra Witschard,
Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften, Wädenswil,
for her Bachelor thesis focusing on «Voxelated planar spheroid tissue assembly»

and

Mr. Ivan Cornu,
Haute école d’ingénierie et d’architecture Fribourg,
for his Bachelor thesis entitled «Synthesis of new pinene-phenanthroline and pinene-terpyridine type ligands».

The award lectures will take place at the ILMAC 2019 in Basel on September 27, 2019.

All Dr. Max Lühti Award Winners since 1992

David Spichiger, SCS
20.11.2018 / 01.02.2019