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Poster prize winner at the 8th BrazMedChem Symposium

12 Jan 2017

Daniel receiving his prize from Prof. Koen Augustyns of MedChemComm‘s Editorial Board

Congratulations to the poster prize winner at the BrazMedChem Symposium 2016.

We were pleased to present a prize to Daniel A. Rodrigues (LASSBio-UFRJ-Federal University of Rio de Janeiro; Supervisor: Carlos M. Fraga) for his poster:

“Antiproliferative activity and chemical stability of novel N-acylhydrazones dual inhibitors of HDAC6/8″

The symposium took place in Armação dos Búzios, Rio de Janeiro on 27-30 November 2016. A short video summary of the event can be seen at https://youtu.be/lRi_nMNX5oM

The main goal of BrazMedChem2016 was to provide a scientific atmosphere to stimulate the cooperation between scientists from Brazil and abroad. To facilitate the exchange of experiences and information among researchers is essential in order to meet the challenges of medicinal chemistry of the twenty-first century.

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MedChemComm winners at the 7th BMCS Symposium

20 Dec 2013

Congratulations to Duncan Hay and James Clulow, winners of the MedChemComm prizes at the 7th Biological and Medicinal Chemistry Symposium.

Duncan (University of Oxford), won the prize for best oral presentation for his research on SGC-CBP30, a chemical probe for CBP/p300 bromodomains while James (Imperial College London) won the prize for best poster for his research into using quantitative activity-based chemical proteomics to explore the targets of electrophilic natural products.

The symposium, organised by the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Biological & Medicinal Chemistry interest group, was held in Cambridge on 13^th December 2013.

BMCS Committee Member Dave Alker presents awards to Duncan Hay (above) and James Clulow (below)

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Poster Session at the 2013 Medicinal Chemistry Residential School

04 Jul 2013

Sunday night saw the inaugural poster session at the 2013 RSC Medicinal Chemistry Summer School. In total 16 delegates presented their work on the evening. A broad spectrum of chemistry was discussed over a glass of wine and posters provided a great way to see the research interests of delegates. There were 2 poster prizes up for grabs – a 1 year subscription to MedChemComm and a book from the RSC Books Drug Discovery Series.
On Monday morning, Andy Davis announced the winners; there was a tie for the MedChemComm sponsored Prize which was shared between:

Louis Allot ( University of Hull) for his work on PET imaging of nuclear receptor expression.
Kate Nicholson (University of Hull) for her work on synthesis and evaluation of novel coordination complexes as CXCR4 antagonists.

Delegates also had an opportunity to vote for their favourite poster, the winner of the “participants prize” went to Madura Jayatunga (University of Oxford) for his work on non-covalent and covalent inhibitors of the HIF1a-p300 interaction. Madura received the RSC Book Prize – New Therapeutic Strategies for Type 2 Diabetes.

Thanks to our 2 judges Andy Davis and Roger Griffin; and of course everyone that took part!

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‘Realising Lead-Oriented Synthesis’ wins the latest MedChemComm poster prize

11 Apr 2013

Congratulations to Daniel Foley and Dr Richard Doveston who were awarded the poster prize at the RSC-BMCS Fragment-based Drug Discovery meeting, held at the STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire, 3rd-5th March 2013.

Daniel is a PhD research student working under the supervision of Profs. Adam Nelson and Stephen Marsden at the University of Leeds, while Richard took up a post-doctoral research position with Prof. Adam Nelson and Prof. Steve Marsden, in collaboration with GlaxoSmithKline in April 2012. Their poster entitled ‘Realising Lead-Oriented Synthesis’ won the competition. Daniel receives a one-year personal subscription to MedChemComm.

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Dr Richard Doveston and Daniel Foley, University of Leeds

Photo provided by the University of Leeds.

Also read the news item featured on the University of Leeds, School of Chemistry homepage.

Congratulations again to Richard and Daniel on their award! The MedChemComm team wishes them all the very best with their future research work.

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MedChemComm prizes at 6th Biological and Medicinal Chemistry Symposium

18 Dec 2012

Congratulations to Mark Rackham and Kerya Long, winners of the MedChemComm prizes at the 6^th Biological and Medicinal Chemistry Symposium.

Mark, who is part of Professor Robin Leatherbarrow’s group at Imperial College, London, received the prize for Best Oral Contribution for his presentation entitled ‘Design and Synthesis of Highly Potent Inhibitors of Plasmodium falciparum N-Myristoyltranferase as a promising treatment for malaria’.

Oral contribution prize winner Mark Rackham with BMCS Committee member Dave Alker

Kerya, from Dr Andrew Wilson’s group at University of Leeds, was awarded Best Poster Contribution for ‘Development of synthetic α-helix mimetics as potent anticancer agents’. Both winners receive a year’s subscription to MedChemComm.

Poster contribution winner Kerya Long with Dave Alker

The symposium, organised by the RSC’s Biological & Medicinal Chemistry interest group, was held at the University of Cambridge on 14^th December 2012.

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Poster prize winner at the 16th SCI/RSC Medicinal Chemistry Symposium

12 Oct 2011

I am delighted to report that Dr Martine Keenan from Epichem Pty Ltd (Murdoch, Australia) was the winner of the MedChemComm poster prize at the recent 16th SCI/RSC Medicinal Chemistry Symposium that took place at Churchill College in Cambridge, UK, from 11 to 14 September.

The symposium was jointly organised by the Society of Chemical Industry and the Royal Society of Chemistry, and gave a splendid overview of some of the new strategies in Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Research.

Martine’s winning poster entitled ‘Collaborative drug discovery for neglected diseases: novel compounds for the treatment of Chagas Disease’ presents the identification and development of two novel compound series active against the intracellular protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, the causative agent of the Chagas disease. Endemic in 21 countries across Latin America, the Chagas disease is responsible for more deaths in this region than Malaria, or any other parasite-born disease, and is currently spreading to developed countries including Australia, USA, Japan or Spain. This award winning work is the result of a collaborative drug discovery consortium established by not-for-profit, drug research and development organisation Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi).

Congratulations again to Martine on her award-winning work and to the collaborative drug delivery consortium for their active research on neglected diseases.

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Archive for the ‘Poster Prizes’ Category

Poster prize winner at the 8th BrazMedChem Symposium

MedChemComm winners at the 7th BMCS Symposium

Poster Session at the 2013 Medicinal Chemistry Residential School

‘Realising Lead-Oriented Synthesis’ wins the latest MedChemComm poster prize

MedChemComm prizes at 6th Biological and Medicinal Chemistry Symposium

Poster prize winner at the 16th SCI/RSC Medicinal Chemistry Symposium

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