As part of the 2025 edition of the Peptide Therapeutics Forum 2025, that took place at Biozentrum Basel, the SCS also offered the opportunity for students to present a contributed talk and honored the best contributions with the ‘Helvetica’ Best Contributed Talk Award and the Best Poster Presentation Award sponsored by Chemistry Europe. Dr. Richard Smith, Executive Editor of Helvetica and Dr. Yuzhu Song, Deputy Editor of ChemMedChem and Chemistry & Biodiversity handed over the certificates:

Best Contributed Talk:
Moritz List, University of Leipzig
«Cytosolic delivery of therapeutic peptides based on receptor-mediated endocytosis»

Stephanie Vogt, University of Basel
«Development of Next-Generation Compstatin Analogs with Enhanced Target Residence Time Enables New Applications»
 
Best Poster Presentation:
Aliénor Jeandin, University of Zurich
«Exploring microproteins through chemical protein synthesis: KRASIM as KRAS interaction partner»
 
Dennis Freisem, University of Ulm
«Discovery of an endogenous type-I Interferon inhibiting peptide»

 

Additional information and impressions of the event are available on the website of the symposium on ptf25.scg.ch


Thanks to Helvetica Chimica Acta and Chemistry Europe for sponsoring the event and for supporting the Award Program. 


Céline Wittwer, SCS
10.06.2025