The Division Medicinal Chemistry and Chemical Biology of the Swiss Chemical Society is happy and proud to announce the award winners of the DMCCB PhD Prize 2025.
The award includes a prize money of CHF 1'500 and an invitation to give a short presentation at the DMCCB Basel Symposium 2026, that takes place at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel on February 5, 2026. As both winners are in the US for a Postdoc, the lecturers will be connected to the audience via video call.
Dr. Xingyu Liu
receives the award for his outstanding thesis entitled «Integration of Hypervalent Iodine Reagents and Carbazolyl Cyanobenzene-Based Dyes into Peptides: New Opportunities for Biomolecule Functionalization».
He conducted the PhD thesis at the EPFL Lausanne in the group of Prof. Jérôme Waser and is now SNSF Postdoctoral Fellow at The Scripps Research Institute, USA.
LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/xingyu-liu-769218201/
Dr. Kevin Schiefelbein
is awarded for his outstanding thesis entitled «Combining Flow-Based Chemical Peptide Synthesis and Biochemical Tools to Investigate Post-Translationally Modified Peptides with a Focus on Lasso Peptides».
He conducted the PhD thesis at the University of Zurich in the Group of Prof. Nina Hartrampf and is now SNSF Postdoc Mobility Fellow at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, USA.
LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevin-schiefelbein/
David Spichiger, SCS
21.01.2026