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Congratulations to Emmanuelle Read (University Paul Sabatier, France) for winning the Polymer Chemistry poster prize at the recent conference CopAmphi 2012.

The winning poster was titled: Copolymères diblocs thermosensibles cationiques : synthèse par RAFT/MADIX dans l’eau et étude de leurs propriétés physico-chimiques

(In English: Cationic thermosensitive diblock copolymers: synthesis by RAFT/MADIX in water and investigation of their physico-chemical properties)

CopAmphi 2012 was held in 5th – 7th June, in Toulouse, France.

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Congratulations to Adam J. Gormley, Inmaculada Conejos-Sánchez, Paula Ofek, Stefan Hoffmann & Corinna Fetsch for winning the Polymer Chemistry poster prizes at the 9th International Symposium on Polymer Therapeutics: From Laboratory to Clinical Practice.

The winning posters were titled:

1. Laser guided delivery of polymer therapeutics to prostate tumors. (Adam J. Gormley)
2. Targeting a rare amyloidotic disease with rationally designed polymer conjugates. (Inmaculada Conejos-Sánchez)
3. Targeting siRNA to tumors and their stroma as a dual anticancer and anti-angiogenic therapy. (Paula Ofek)
4. Tumour Targeted Delivery of Polymer Drug Conjugates with pH-Sensitive Release: Monitoring the Biodistribution of Carriers and Drug Model simultaneously by Multispectral Optical Imaging. (Stefan Hoffmann)
5. Polypeptoids: a truly living polymerisation of biodegradable and synthetic highly versatile polymers (Corinna Fetsch)

9th International Symposium on Polymer Therapeutics: From Laboratory to Clinical Practice was held in Valencia, Spain, 28th – 30th May, 2012.

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Congratulations to Dr Yulan Chen (Eindhoven University of Technology) for winning the Polymer Chemistry poster prize at the recent Dutch Polymer Days conference in Lunteren, The Netherlands.

Dr Yulan Chen’s winning poster was on “Mechanically induced chemiluminescence  in polymers”.

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Congratulations to Tomoki Yoshida for winning a Polymer Chemistry poster prize at the International Conference on the Innovation in Polymer Science and Technology 2011 (IPST2011). His winning poster titled “Extraction of Hemicelluloses from Corn Pericarp by the NaOH-Urea Solvent System” was selected by the judges and awarded by Edy Giri Rachman Putra.

Tomoki Yoshida is a PhD student working in the group of Professor J. Azuma, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Japan. IPST2011 was held in Bali, Indonesia, November 28 – December 1, 2011.

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