From August 17 to 21, the 2025 edition of the SCS Summer School took place in Haute-Nendaz. The event with focus on Organic Chemistry, included lectures from experts from all around the world, short talks by participants and two poster sessions. At total of 66 participants joined the summer school that was co-chaired by Prof. Jieping Zhu, EPFL, and Prof. em. Philippe Renaud, University of Bern.
Picture: winners of the best presentation awards
More details can be found on the website: https://summer-school25.scg.ch
Lectures were given by
- Prof. Olivier Baudoin, University of Basel, Switzerland
- Prof. Nicolai Cramer, EPFL Lausanne
- Prof. Daniele Leonori, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
- Prof. Song Lin, Cornell University
- Prof. Haichao Xu, Xiamen University, China
- Prof. Julia Rehbein, University of Regensburg
- Prof. Michael Sherburn, The Australian National University
- Prof. Troels Skrydstrup, Aarhus University, Denmark
- Dr. Luca Allievi Valsynthese SA, Brig
- Dr. Guillaume Journot, Siegfried Evionnaz SA
- Dr. Ulrich Mayerhoeffer and Dr. Philipp Kohler, Arxada AG, Visp
Best Poster Award Winners:
- Matheus A. Meirelles, University of Bern
«Synthetic Lipid-Linked Oligosaccharide for Structural Studies of Alg6» - Vincent Goëlo, EPFL Lausanne
«Divergent Enantioselective Total Synthesis of (−)-Ajmalicine, (+)-Mayumbine, and (−)-Roxburghine C»
Best Oral Presentation Winners:
- Pownthurai Balasubramaniam, University of Geneva
«Photochemical reductive N-H aziridination using N-aminoacridinium salts as nitrogen source: Synthesis and mechanistic studies» - Anastassia Kraimps, University of Zurich
«Dichalcogenide Fidaxomicin Derivatives to Probe Thiol-Mediated Uptake into Bacteria»
A special gift for all participants
The Division History of Chemistry of the GDCh and the family of Albert Eschenmoser, who would have celebrated his 100th birthday on August 5, presented all participants with a wonderful book about Eschenmoser's lifetime achievments. Many thanks for this kind gesture.
More books from "Lives in Chemistry" by Wiley-VCH: https://l-i-c.org
David Spichiger, SCS
22.08.2025