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EFMC Prizes 2024 - Laureates announced
The EFMC is happy to announce the names of the 2024 Prize winners, aiming to acknowledge and recognise outstanding young medicinal chemists and chemical biologists (≤ 12 years after PhD) working in European industry and academia.
The selection committee designated Prof. Rebecca Buller (Zhaw School of Life Science and Facility Management,Switzerland) as the winner of the 2024 EFMC Prize for a Young Medicinal Chemist or Chemical Biologist in Academia
Dr Martin Empting (Helmholtz-Institute f. Pharmaceutical Research Saarland, Germany) and Prof. Elisabeth Rexen Ulven (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) have been recognised as the most meritorious runners-up.
The selection committee designated Dr Samuele Cazzamalli (Philochem AG, Switzerland) as the winner of the 2024 EFMC Prize for a Young Medicinal Chemist or Chemical Biologist in Industry
Dr Ranganath Gopalakrishnan (AstraZeneca, Sweden) and Dr Zoe Henley (GSK, United Kingdom) have been recognised as the most meritorious runners-up.
The two Prizes are given annually and consists of a diploma, € 1.000 and an invitation for a short presentation at an EFMC symposium.
For the 2024 edition, the prize-winners are invited to give an oral communications at the XXVIII EFMC International Symposium on Medicinal Chemistry (EFMC-ISMC 2024), scheduled to take place in Rome, Italy on September 1-5, 2024. Two additional nominees are also identified and acknowledged as most meritorious runners-up.