Sandmeyer Prize 2016 awards Joint Team unter the Lead of Sika

At the dinner of the SCS Fall Meeting in the Zunfhaus zum Rüden, Zurich, on September 14, 2016, the SCS awarded the joint team from Sika, ETHZ and the University of Colorado Boulder for their innovative work in the field of industrial and applied chemistry.

The Sandmeyer Award 2016, CHF 20'000, goes to

the team comprising researchers from Sika Technology AG, ETH Zürich and the University of Colorado Boulder, namely
Dr. Martin Weibel, Sika Technology AG
Dr. Thomas Müller, Sika Deutschland GmbH
Dr. Ratan K. Mishra, ETH Zürich
Prof. Robert J. Flatt, ETH Zürich
Prof. Hendrik Heinz, University of Colorado Boulder,

for their experimental and modelling studies of new commercial organic additives for the grinding of inorganic solids.

On September 15, the team presented their project(s) as morning plenary lecture of the SCS Fall Meeting to a full lecture hall with close to 500 listeners.

We like to congratulate the team members again and thanks them for their fantastic work and the interesting lecture.

David Spichiger, SCS, Photo S. Lüthi
19.09.16

KGF-SCS Industrial Science Award Ceremonies 2016

On the occasion of the SCS Fall Meeting Dinner Dr. Alain De Mesmaeker, President of the SCS and member of the KGF board awarded the KGF-SCS Industrial Science Award winners 2016. More than 60 guests from academia and industry joined the ceremony and the dinner at the Zunfthaus zum Rüden in Zürich on September 14, 2016, and paid homage to the prize winners.

In the name of the SCS Award board and the SCS Board of Directors we like to congratulate again to the winners.

KGF-SCS Senior Industrial Science Award 2016
CHF 10'000. The award was given to

Dr. Eric Francotte, Novartis Pharma AG,

for his outstanding contributions to chromatographic resolution of racemic compounds on optically active polymers as chiral stationary phases and his pioneering work in implementing new preparative chromatographic techniques.

and

Prof. Peter Nesvadba, BASF Schweiz AG,

for his groundbreaking contributions to the discovery and development of novel stabilizers for monomers and polymers, novel dyes, first industrial realization of controlled radical polymerization, to the development of safe alternatives to organic peroxides and for his engagement as bridge builder between academia and industry.

KGF-SCS Industrial Science Award 2016
CHF 7'000. The award was given to

Dr. Martin H. Bolli, Actelion Pharmaceuticals Ltd,

for his excellent contributions in medicinal chemistry culminating in the discovery and development of Macitentan, a drug for the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension.

and 

Dr. Andreas Herrmann, Firmenich SA,

for his essential contributions to make profragrance chemistry an interdisciplinary research area and to establish it as a key technology for fragrance delivery

Winners of the Best Oral Presentation Award at the SCS Fall Meeting 2016

On the occasion of the SCS Fall Meeting 2016, that took place on September 15 at University of Zürich, Metrohm sponsored again the Best Oral Presentation Award. Dr. Markus Steinke, Vice President Marketing at Metrohm, awarded the following winners:

Winners of the Best Poster Presentation Awards at the SCS Fall Meeting 2016

On the occasion of the SCS Fall Meeting 2016, that took place on September 15 at University of Zürich, DSM Nutritional Products sponsored again the Best Poster Presentation Award. Dr. Roman Imhof from DSM awarded the following winners: