As part of the 2026 edition of the Peptide Therapeutics Forum, 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 Best Contributed Talk Award and the Best Poster Presentation Award sponsored by Chemistry Europe. Dr. Richard Smith, representative of Wiley and Chemistry Europe handed over the certificates:
Best Contributed Talk:
Elena Rebecca Cotroneo, Göttingen University
«Design and Synthesis of Bicyclic Helical Peptides as β-Catenin Binders»
Sofia Pinheiro, University of Basel
«Nature-Inspired Protection: Engineering Complement-Resistance of Biomedical Surfaces via Surface-Tethered M22 Peptidomimetics»
«Construction of DNA-Encoded Peptide Libraries with SPPS-Synthesized Building Blocks»
Additional information and impressions of the event are available on the website of the symposium on ptf26.scg.ch
Thanks to Chemistry Europe for sponsoring the event and for supporting the Award Program.
Céline Wittwer, SCS
05.06.2026