Call for nominations: EuCheMS Lecture Award 2015
The EuCheMS Lecture serves to strengthen the image of EuCheMS and of European chemistry in general, promoting scientific cooperation among chemists in Europe. The lecture is normally awarded annually to a prominent chemist from a European country.
Please read the guidelines for the EuCheMS Lecture Award. Submissions for nominations for the EuCheMS Lecture Award 2015 can be made through an online form until the 30 June 2015.
This year, nominations can be submitted also by individual members. For the details please see http://www.euchems.eu/awards/euchems-lecture.html.
David Spichiger, SCS
31.03.2015
ChemMedChem - Front cover by ZHAW
Jan Lanz and Rainer Riedl from ZHAW delivered the front cover from the current issue of ChemMedChem 3/2015.
The cover illustrates the issue topic «Merging Allosteric and Active Site Binding Motifs: De novo Generation of Target Selectivity and Potency via Natural-Product-Derived Fragments»
The synergy of natural-product-derived fragments with structure-based design has been validated as a powerful technique for the efficient de novo discovery of potent and selective lead molecules for modulating therapeutically relevant targets. The front cover picture shows the structural and functional transformation of an RNA nucleobase into aprotease inhibitor employing matrix metalloproteinase 13 (MMP-13) as the protein template.The natural-product-derived fragment uracil has been utilized as a molecular seed for a genuine de novo structure-based approach to highly selective, potent and ligandefficient MMP-13 inhibitors by targeting allosteric and active site binding motifs at the same time. For further details, see the Communication by Rainer Riedl et al. on p. 451 ff.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cmdc.201590003/abstract
Sarah Schmitz, SCS
17.03.2015
ScienceComm'15: call for abstracts
24 and 25 September 2015
Kultur- und Tagungszentrum Landhaus Solothurn
The two-day annual conference ScienceComm brings together Swiss science communication experts and offers them a platform for exchanging views and information. The conference is intended for representatives of higher education institutions, science festivals, press and public relations offices, the arts, museums and institutes of education as well as science journalists and politicians involved in education policies. A different inspiring venue and main topics are chosen each year. The conference has succeeded in establishing itself in the space of five years, attracting about 200 participants on average. It offers a programme rich in variety, both in terms of content and methods, including well-known keynote speakers from Switzerland and abroad as well as an evening programme.
ScienceComm'15 in Solothurn will address the following main topics: "Crisis of Science" (the integrity of science and society's faith in science) and "Open Science / Citizen Science" (transparency aspects, access to and participation in science).
We have already been able to engage two respected personalities as keynote speakers for "Crisis of Science": Prof. Dr. Gottfried Schatz (Basel University) and Prof. Dr. Mathias Binswanger (FHNW). Once again, you will have the chance to hear challenging views, acquire new knowledge, expand your network and participate in interesting discussions. Allow us to put together a varied and lively programme for you by sending us your abstract on the main topics.
David Spichiger, SCS
17.03.2015
EuCheMS Brussels News Update, Mar 2015
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New location and address of the SCS Head Office
As of April 20, 2015, the Head Office of the society relocate to the House of Academies in Berne.
The new address is:
Swiss Chemical Society
Haus of Academies
Laupenstrasse 7
Postfach
3001 Bern
Switzerland
T+ 41 31 306 92 92
http://scg.ch
The Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences are the largest scientific network in Switzerland. In order to further promote the interdisciplinary collaboration and the dialogue between science and society, SCNAT, SAHS, SAMS and Science et Cité are moving to a new location in Bern. SCS takes the opportuniy and follows the SCNAT to the new location to profit from the on-site network and the synergies.
David Spichiger, SCS
09.03.2015
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