The Selection Committee is very pleased to communicate that after all the votes were added, the winner of the EFMC Prize for a Young Medicinal Chemist in Industry and two close followers are emerged.

Frederick GOLDBERG, AstraZeneca, UK
Jérôme HERT, F. Hoffman-La-Roche, Switzerland
Alexei KARPOV, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Switzerland

“The EFMC Prize for Young Medicinal Chemist in Industry” was initiated by the EFMC Industrial Liaison Committee to acknowledge and recognize an outstanding young medicinal chemist (<35 years old) working in industry within Europe. The Prize is given annually and consists of a diploma, € 1.000 and an invitation for a short presentation at the 5th ASMC Symposium on Medicinal Chemistry, May 05-08, 2013 - Moscow, Russia. Two runners-up are also identified and acknowledged.

The Selection Committee is proud to announce the names of the winner and the most meritorious runners-up of the EFMC Prize for a Young Medicinal Chemist in Academia.

Gonçalo BERNARDES, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, UK and Instituto de Medicino Molecular, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Chris DE GRAAF, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Frank DEKKER, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

“The EFMC Prize for Young Medicinal Chemist in Academia” was established by the European Federation for Medicinal Chemistry (EFMC) to acknowledge and recognize an outstanding young medicinal chemist (<35 years old) working in academia within Europe. The Prize is given annually and consists of a diploma, € 1.000 and an invitation for a short presentation at the 5th International Symposium on Medicinal Chemistry, May 5-8, 2013 - Moscow, Russia. Two runners-up are also identified and acknowledged

EFMC Prize for a Young Medicinal Chemist in Industry
2012: Sharan Bagal, Pfizer, UK
2011: Alexander V. Mayweg, Hoffmann-la Roche, Switzerland
2010: Antonio Nardi, Grünenthal, Germany

EFMC Prize for a Young Medicinal Chemist in Academia
2012: Stuart Conway, University of Oxford, UK
2011: Christian Heinis, Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
2010: Andreas Bender, University of Cambridge, UK