The Swiss Chemical Society has awarded the “Sandmeyer Award 2012” to a research team from Solvias. Working for Sanofi Pasteur, the team developed an innovative, efficient and fully synthetic process for protoporphyrin IX, a precursor of hemoglobin.

A five-person research team from the service company Solvias has received the “Sandmeyer Award 2012 – sponsored by KPMG.” “We are honoring the conceptually innovative and industrially developed synthesis of porphyrins,” says Prof. E. Kündig, President of the Swiss Chemical Society (SCS), justifying the decision. “These preparations are completely free from impurities of animal origin, which represents a significant improvement in the production of protoporphyrin IX derivatives.”

The research team is made up of Dr. Dirk Spielvogel, Dr. Dietmar Flubacher, Dr. Andreas Boudier, Markus Müller and Dr. Pierre Martin from the Chemical Development and Catalysis department at Solvias AG. Solvias is one of the leading service companies involved in analysis and synthesis relating to the development and production of pharmaceutical ingredients. For further details see the official press releases below.



 

A hands-on workshop for Life Sciences & Chemistry PhD Students and Postdocs. The 2021 edition offers a Basic Academia focused course: 11 & 12 October 2021. This program is specially built for PhDs students and Postdocs and will take place at the Hotel Schloss Gernzensee.

Registration is now open!

Program: The course is a two-day hands-on workshop for doctoral students and post-docs in life sciences & chemistry. It will take the form of an interactive workshop with 4-5 speakers and lectures on different topics, such as intellectual property protection and patent law, challenges related to intellectual property in an academic environment and in a spin-off company and ethical considerations. The participants will also discover new job opportunities in the field of intellectual property management.

The registration fee includes course material, all catering and one night of accommodation in single room at the venue. Cost: 450 CHF

Organizers: This course is co-organized by Life Sciences Switzerland, the Swiss Chemical Society, and the Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property. It is kindly supported by the Swiss Academy of Sciences (SCNAT).

Information and registration here: https://meetings.ls2.ch/patenting-2021

Céline Wittwer, SCS
29.04.2021

181016 LS2To commemorate the 100-year anniversary of the discovery of nucleic acids, the MCB section of LS2 (formerly Swiss Society for Molecular and Cellular Biosciences/Swiss Society for Biochemistry) has created the Friedrich-Miescher-Award. The prize is intended to honour young biochemists and is donated by the Friedrich-Miescher-Institute in Basel. 

Please feel encouraged to nominate candidates for the award. The guidelines for applications are listed below.

The submission deadline is Ocotber 31st, 2022. 
Please follow the guidelines below.

Application guidelines

  1. The Friedrich-Miescher-Award may be awarded once every year to a young scientist for outstanding achievements in biochemistry.
  2. Candidates are eligible who have not yet reached the age of 40 years (for women with children 42) on January 1st of the award year.
    For female candidates with children, the age limit is automatically extended by one year per child. For male candidates with children, the age limit can be extended by 6 weeks per child, or the actual time taken off as parental leave if this is longer than 6 weeks. The maximal extension for men is 6 months.
  3. Preference will be given to candidates with a documented record of independent research.
  4. The scientific work must have been carried out in Switzerland or by Swiss scientists abroad.

Applications or nominations, including a letter stating the relevance of the candidate's scientific work, his/her CV, list of publications, and embedded links to the four most relevant publications should be submitted by Ocotber 31st, 2022 by e-mail as a single PDF file to the secretary of the Molecular and Cellular Biosciences section of LS2: Prof. Monica Gotta, Molecular and Cellular Biosciences section of LS2,

Award Ceremony

The Award ceremony will take place on the February 15-16, 2023, at the LS2 Annual Meeting 2023, University of Zurich, Irchel Campus.

  

Céline Wittwer, SCS
13.09.2022

 

Interested to learn more about PROTACT and Small Molecules?

Be sure not to miss the 6th EFMC-YSN MedChemBioOnline webinar on January 28.

 

PROGRAMME

  • 17:00 | Opening 
  • 17:05 | Targeted protein degradation with small molecules: How PROTACs work
    Prof. Alessio Ciulli (University of Dundee, United Kingdom)
  • 17:50 | Title to be confirmed
    Dr Luc Van Hijfte (Symeres, The Netherlands) 
  • 18:00 | Controlling Physicochemical Properties in Drug Design
    Dr Klemens Hoegenauer (Novartis, Switzerland) 
  • 18:45 | Round Table discussion on "Challenges and Opportunities in PROTAC vs Small Molecules Development"
    Prof. Alessio Ciulli (University of Dundee, United Kingdom)
    Dr Danette Daniels (Promega, United States)
    Dr Rutger Folmer (Symeres, The Netherlands)
    Dr Klemens Hoegenauer (Novartis, Switzerland)
    Dr Malin Lemurell (AstraZeneca, Sweden) 
    Dr Georg Winter (Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria) 
  • 19:15 | End of the Meeting

More information and registration on EFMC-YSN MedChemBioOnline

The event is free and open to all thanks to the generous sponsor of Symeres.

Céline Wittwer, SCS
26.01.2021

Two-day online symposium on

«Current developments, novel approaches and cutting-edge technologies in the field of Medicinal Chemistry»

Tuesday, March 8 - 10, 2021 - Online

Don’t miss, register now! Frontiers in Medicinal Chemistry (Mar 8-10 online), covering PROTAC/Molecular Glues, Covalent Fragments, Antivirals, Case Studies & more.

The international symposium will focus on current developments, novel approaches and cutting-edge technologies in the field of Medicinal Chemistry with sessions on Molecular Glues/PROTACs, Covalent Fragments, Case Studies and Highlights in Medicinal Chemistry, Antivirals, CryoEM, Young Investigators and Cryptic Binding Pockets. The scientific program will include lectures and poster presentations. It is the goal of the organizers to make this meeting an event of scientific excellence, attractive to both industrial and academic scientists in Medicinal Chemistry, Chemical Biology and related fields of research.

Registration
Register here.


Information about the Scientific Program

Prof. Dr. Felix Hausch
Technical University Darmstadt
Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry
Alarich-Weiss-Str. 4
64287 Darmstadt
Phone: +49 6151 16 -21245
E-mail:

Information about the Organization
Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker e. V. (GDCh)
(German Chemical Society)
Claudia Birkner – Event Team
P.O. Box 90 04 40
60444 Frankfurt am Main
Germany
Varrentrappstr. 40-42
60486 Frankfurt am Main
Germany
Phone: +49 69 7917-366
E-mail:
Internet: www.gdch.de
#FIMC2020

More Information: www.gdch.de/medchem2021

Céline Wittwer, SCS
26.01.2021

  1. LS2 Annual Meeting: last days to submit your abstract
  2. DMCCB Basel Symposium, online on Feb 4th, 2021 - Registration open
  3. Annual Meeting on Frontiers in Medicinal Chemistry 2021, Online (2)
  4. DMCCB Session at the Life Sciences (LS2) Annual Meeting

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