SCNAT-Newsletter October 2014

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Helma Wennemers held the EurJOC Lecture at ORCHEM 2014

Professor Helma Wennemers, ETH Zürich, is the recipient of the 2014 EurJOC lecture award. The lecture titled "Bioinspired Chemistry with Peptides" was held at the ORCHEM meeting in Weimar on Monday, 15 September, 2014. The SCS congratulates Helma for this great honor.

The EurJOC lecture was first awarded in 2012 at the ORCHEM meeting of the German Chemical Society (GDCh) and will continue to be awarded every two years. The recipient is selected by the Editorial Board of the European Journal of Organic Chemistry  (EurJOC) in conjunction with the Editor.
The previous winner of the award in its inaugural year in 2012 was Professor Véronique Gouverneur, University of Oxford, UK.

Text from the Article on ChemistryViews

Helma Wennemers received her PhD degree in 1996 from Columbia University, New York, USA, where she worked with Prof. W. Clark Still. She then carried out postdoctoral studies with Prof. Hisashi Yamamoto at Nagoya University, Japan. In 1999, she became assistant professor at the University of Basel, Switzerland, and was promoted to associate professor in 2003. Since 2011, she has been Professor of Organic Chemistry at the ETH Zürich. 

Her research focuses on the development of small molecules for functions that are fulfilled by large macromolecules in nature. This includes bioinspired asymmetric catalysis, peptide-based materials, and the use of peptides as additives for the generation of silver nanoparticles.

Link to the Wennemers Research Group at ETH

David Spichiger, SCS
18.09.2014

SCS Fall Meeting Dinner and Award Ceremonies 2014

On the occasion of the SCS Fall Meeting Dinner Prof. E. Peter Kündig awarded the SCS Prize Winners 2014. More than 70 guests from academia and industry joined the dinner at the "Zunfthaus zum Rüden" in Zurich on September 10, 2014, and paid homage to the prize winners.

Award winners 2014, that were honored at the dinner:

Paracelsus Prize
Prof. Richard R. Schrock, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Grammaticakis-Neumann Award
Dr. Erwin Reisner, University of Cambridge

Sandmeyer Award
Dr. Harald Walter, Dr. Hans Tobler, Dr. Camilla Corsi, Dr. Denis V. Gribkov, from Syngenta Crop Protection Münchwilen AG

KGF-SCS Distinguished Industrial Investigator Award
Dr. Hans-Ulrich Blaser

KGF-SCS Senior Industrial Investigator Award
Dr. Werner Neidhart, F. Hoffmann La Roche

KGF-SCS Industrial Investigator Award
Dr. Andreas Natsch, Givaudan Schweiz AG,
Dr. Wolfgang Jahnke, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Basel

Photos by: Simeon Lüthi
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David Spichiger, SCS
12.09.2014

Review and Photos Fall Meeting 2014

More than 800 participants from academia and industry joined the SCS Fall Meeting at University of Zurich on September 11, 2014, to see a total of 15 award or invited lectures, 76 oral presentations and almost 500 posters.

In the name of the SCS I like to congratulate again all prize and award winners 2014 and thank them for their contribution to the success of the SCS Fall Meeting 2014. The plenary lectures, the parallel sessions as well as the poster sessions were very well visited and confirmed that the SCS Fall Meeting is one of the major platforms of the chemical community to exchange know-how and to enlarge the personal network. 

A special thank goes to our sponsors, exhibitors and the host Universities of UZH and ETHZ. Without their financial and logistical support it would not be possible to organize such a meeting.

Link to the winners of the Best Oral Presentation Award, sponsored by Metrohm

Link to the winners of the Best Poster Presentation Award, sponsored by DSM

Photos by: Simeon Lüthi 
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David Spichiger, SCS
12.09.2014