Archive for June, 2014

European Federation for Medicinal Chemistry (EFMC) Awards

Every two years the European Federation for Medicinal Chemistry (EFMC), a partner society of MedChemComm, honour three awards at the International Symposium on Medicinal Chemistry (EFMC-ISMC).  Congratulations to the following winners of the EFMCEFMC Awards 2014!

Nauta Award for Pharmacochemistry
Professor Paul Leeson
GlaxoSmithKline, UK

UCB-Ehrlich Award for Excellence in Medicinal Chemistry
Professor Craig Crews
Yale University, Department of Chemistry, New Haven, USA

Prous Institute-Overton and Meyer Award for New Technologies in Drug Discovery
Professor György Ferenczy and Professor György Keseru
Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary

These awards acknowledge outstanding achievements in the field of Medicinal Chemistry.

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Kinase 2014

A very successful Kinase 2014 was held on 19-20 May 2014 with some great talks and interesting perspectives being presented on the future of kinase inhibitor research.

Kinase 2014 Chinese Pharmaceutical Association delegation

Kinase 2014 CPA delegation

Eight VIP Chinese Pharmaceutical Association (CPA) delegates attended the Kinase 2014 held at the Babraham Research Institute in Cambridge. Three of the CPA delegates presented their research at the meeting which also included a lecture from Nathanael S Gray (Harvard), recent guest editor for Med Chem Comm themed issue “Chemical Biology for Target Identification and Validation”.

Along with the talks a series of posters were also presented. Two of these recieved Poster Prizes sponsored by the Chemistry Biology Interface Division (CBID) and MedChemComm.

Jeff Kropf (Gilead Sciences) won the MedChemComm prize for his research on the discovery of GS-9973, a selective and orally efficacious inhibitor of spleen tyrosine kinase (Syk).

Charlotte Griffiths-Jones (Astex Pharmaceuticals) won the CBID prize for her poster on fragment based drug discovery of selective inhibitors of fibroblast growth facter receptor (FGFR).

MedChemComm poster prize at Kinase 2014

Jeff Kropf being presented with his poster prize

Charlotte Griffiths-Jones being presented with her CBID prize at Kinase 2014

Charlotte Griffiths-Jones being presented with her CBID prize

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