Industry 4.0 and Lab 4.0 at ILMAC Lausanne, 7. October 2020
Welcome to the 2020 edition of ILMAC Lausanne! The fair, initially founded by the Swiss Chemical Society in 1956 in Basel, moved to Lausanne as complementing location in the western part of Switzerland in 2017. ILMAC Lausanne is organized for the third time and has established itself as an important event that provides knowledge exchange platforms for the whole laboratory and process chemistry community.
ILMAC Lausanne 2020
Beaulieu Exhibition Center, October 7-8, 2020
Opening hours: 09.00-17.00h
www.ilmac.ch/lausanne
Symposia and Workshops
The Swiss Chemical Society in collaboration with SusChem Switzerland organizes two symposia and two workshops on Wednesday, October 7:
- Symposium: Industry 4.0 - Trends & Best Practice, 10.00-12.30h
- Symposium: Lab 4.0 - Trends, Visions & Challenges, 14.00-16.30h
- Workshop: Focus Topics Green & Sustainable Chemistry 2021-2023, 14.00-16.30h
- Workshop: Flow Chemistry, 14.00-16.30h
The Integrated Scientific Services AG (ISS) in collaboration with Swiss Biotech Association, BioAlps and the Canton of Vaud organizes a one-day Medtech symposium on Thursday, October 8:
- Medtech Forum: «CE-Marking of Medical Devices: Navigating the new Regulatory Framework»
Forum in order to bring information to Medtech companies who are not all well prepared to face the numerous challenges for obtaining a CE-mark, specifically within the new EU MDR.)
Exhibition
Laboratory technology and process technology are being presented together instead of in separate sections: at ILMAC Lausanne, our exhibitors can showcase their competences and solutions as an overall package. This will ensure greater attention from the growing number of professional visitors who plan and implement their company processes holistically rather than individually.
ILMAC is the meeting place for suppliers and manufacturers of:
- laboratory equipment; installations, implements, consumables
- analytical technology; analytical devices and processes
- semi-finished products, laboratory chemicals
- information technology
- design and implementation, engineering, management
- plant: process engineering devices and systems
- process and environmental technology
- pharmaceutical packaging: primary and secondary packaging systems
- quality control and validation
- environmentally compatible disposal
Winners of the Helvetica Prize of the Swiss Chemical Society 2020
Helvetica and the Swiss Chemical Society are proud to announce the 2020 winners of the new Helvetica Prize of the Swiss Chemical Society for the best published papers of PhD/Postdocs 2019/20 in Helvetica Chimica Acta. The prize is endowed with CHF 1'000 for the winner and CHF 500 for the runner up.
The The 2020 prizes go to:
- Jérémy Vuilleumier, (EPFL Lausanne, Group of Prof. Sandrine Gerber)
Title of the publication: «Photocontrolled Release of the Anticancer Drug Chlorambucil with Caged Harmonic Nanoparticles»
- Valentina Galli (University of Geneva, Group of Prof. Nicolas Winssinger)
Title of the publication: «Caprin‐1 Promotes Cellular Uptake of Nucleic Acids with Backbone and Sequence Discrimination»
Helvetica and SCS congratulate Jérémy and Valentina for their excellent publications.
Céline Wittwer, SCS
26.08.2020
Information Video "Roadmap for chemistry research infrastructures"
Objectives and Mandate
The Swiss Roadmap for Research Infrastructures is a planning instrument for research infrastructures updated every four years. The State Secretariate for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI) would like to strengthen the the view of the research community throughout the process leading to the Swiss roadmap.
Therefore, SERI gave a mandate to the Swiss Academy of Sciences (SCNAT) to produce discipline specific roadmaps by March 2021. These disciplinary roadmaps will provide insights for decision-making on the allocation of university and federal funding for costly research infrastructures over the period 2025–2028.
Process Leading to the Chemistry Roadmap
Representatives from all Swiss universities, institutions of the ETH domain, and universities of applied sciences were invited to join the Chemistry Round Table.
Proposals for research infrastructures (RI) were collected and further elaborated in dedicated working groups. The criteria for the selection were:
- RI that will be open to the entire research community in Switzerland
- Large RI that are not affordable to a single department/university
We Need Your Feedback!
Please fill in the survey on the website: chem.scnat.ch/rotachem
We appreciate also a general feedback and comments via e-mail to .
Thank you for your feedback!
David Spichiger, SCS
26.08.2020
Winners of the Best Poster Presentation Awards at the SCS Fall Meeting 2020
In collaboration with DSM Nutritional Products, SCS offered again the very attractive and prestigious Fall Meeting Best Poster Award program. Combined with the Best Oral Presentation Awards program this is probably the most highly remunerated award program in the field, and we are very proud and happy to cooperate with our sponsoring partners. We wish to express our sincere gratitude to DSM Nutritional Products Ltd for their generous support and congratulate all winners for their fantastic contributions.
Roman Imhof awarded a total of 25 winners at the end of the SCS Fall Meeting online on August 25, 2020.
Winners of the Best Poster Presentation Awards 2020
Analytical Sciences | |
Winner | Stefan Kradolfer, ETH Zurich |
Runner-up | Tara Forrest, University of Geneva |
Catalysis Sciences & Engineering | |
Winner | Simon Büchele, ETH Zurich |
Runner-up | Andrea Blankenship, ETH Zurich |
Zachariah Berkson, ETH Zurich | |
Yongpeng Liu, EPFL Lausanne | |
Computational Chemistry | |
Winner | Stephanie Grimmel, ETH Zurich |
Runner-up | Christian Schellhaas, ETH Zurich |
Chemistry and the Environment | |
Winner | Anna Morales-Melgares, EPFL Lausanne |
Runner-up | Nora Bartolomé, Agroscope |
Charlotte Driesen, Empa | |
Inorganic Chemistry | |
Winner | Aurélien R. Willauer, EPFL Lausanne |
Runner-up | Leonie J. Bole, University of Bern |
Medicinal Chemistry | |
Winner | Remi Patouret, University of Geneva |
Runner-up | Susanna Zamolo, University of Bern |
Chemical Biology | |
Winner | Thomas Edwardson, ETH Zurich |
Runner-up | Michelle Frei, EPFL Lausanne |
Organic Chemistry | |
Winner | Alexandre Leclair, EPFL Lausanne |
Runner-up | Elena Braconi, EPFL Lausanne |
Antonin Clemenceau, University of Basel | |
Tomáš Pastierik, University of Zurich | |
Physical Chemistry | |
Winner | Snaedis Biörgvinsdottir, EPFL Lausanne |
Runner-up | Tereza Schonfeldova, EPFL Lausanne |
Vladimir Gorbachev, ETH Zurich | |
Polymers, Colloids & Interfaces | |
Winner | Jovana Jevric, University of Bern |
Prizes for Winners - certificate and cash contribution of CHF 200.00 Prizes for Runners‘ up |
Céline Wittwer, SCS
26.08.2020
Winners of the Best Oral Presentation Awards at the SCS Fall Meeting 2020
In collaboration with Metrohm, SCS offered again the very attractive and prestigious Fall Meeting Best Oral Presentation Award program. Combined with the Best Poster Presentation Awards program this is probably the most highly remunerated award program in the field, and we are very proud and happy to cooperate with our sponsoring partners. We wish to express our sincere gratitude to Metrohm for their generous support and congratulate all winners for their fantastic contributions.
Markus Steinke, representative of Metrohm, awarded a total of 17 winners at the end of the SCS Fall Meeting online on August 25, 2020.
Winners of the Best Oral Presentation Awards 2020
Analytical Sciences
Winner: Prince Tiwari, ETH Zurich
Runner-up: Pascal Becker, ETH Zurich
Catalysis Sciences & Engineering
Winner: Maxim Zabilskiy, PSI Villigen
Runner-up: Jaicy Vallapurackal, University of Basel
Computational Chemistry
Winner: Tomislav Begušić, EPFL Lausanne
Runner-up: Stephanie M. Linker, ETH Zurich
Chemistry and the Environment
Winner: Jordan Meyet, ETH Zurich
Runner-up: Michael Zumstein, Eawag, Dübendorf
Inorganic Chemistry
Winner: Pinelopi Moutzouri, EPFL Lausanne
Runner-up: Dorota I. Walicka, University of Zurich
Medicinal Chemistry
Winner: Lluc Farrera Soler, University of Geneva
Organic Chemistry
Winner: Hsin-Hua Huang, University of Basel
Runner-up: Josep Mas-Roselló, EPFL Lausanne
Physical Chemistry
Winner: Mudit Sinhal, University of Basel
Runner-up: Alexander Aster, University of Geneva
Polymers, Colloids & Interfaces
Winner: Claire Meyer, University of Basel
Runner-up: Derek Kiebala, University of Fribourg, Adolphe Merkle Institute
Prizes for Winners - certificate and cash contribution of CHF 500.00 Prizes for Runners‘ up |
Céline Wittwer, SCS
26.08.2020
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