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The 2016 RSC Prizes and Awards are now open for nomination!

Nominations will close on 15 January 2016.

For more than 140 years, our Prizes and Awards programme has been acknowledging and celebrating exceptional talent in the chemical sciences, and with your support we are hoping that 2016 will even more successful!

Last year’s winners include Chemists such as Prof. Wilfred van der Donk (University of Illinois), Prof. Tim Donohoe (University of Oxford), Prof. Shuli You (Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry), Prof. Philip Gale (University of Southampton), Prof. Herman Overkleeft (Leiden University), Prof. Alison Ashcroft and Prof. Sheena Radford (University of Leeds).

This year we have 63 prizes and awards open for nominations of individuals, teams and organisations covering the breadth of the chemical sciences across academia, education and industry.

This year’s prizes in the field of Organic Chemistry & Chemical Biology include:

CBID (Chemistry Biology Interface Division) awards –

• George & Christine Sosnovsky Award in Cancer Therapy
• Jeremy Knowles Award
• Khorana Prize
• Norman Heatley Award
• Rita & John Cornforth Award

Organic Awards –

• Bader Award
• Bioorganic Chemistry Award
• Catalysis in Organic Chemistry Award
• Charles Rees Award
• Hickinbottom Award
• Merck Award
• Natural Product Chemistry Award
• Pedler Award
• Robert Robinson Award
• Sir Derek Barton Gold Medal
• Supramolecular Chemistry Award (Organic & Inorganic)

For 2016 our Longstaff Prize is also open – since 1881 we have awarded this prize once every three years to one of our members who has achieved the most to advance the science of chemistry.

Submit your suggestions now!

Every year since 1958, the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) awards the Shanti Swarup Bahtnagar Prize for Chemical Sciences to up to two Indian scientists up to the age of 45 for exceptional and outstanding research.

One of this year’s winners, Srinivasa Reddy, received the prize for his notable work in the fields of organic synthesis and medicinal chemistry. The research group of Dr Reddy is situated at the CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory in Pune, India, and not only works on the design and synthesis of new agrochemicals for advanced crop protection,¹ but also develops new concepts and drugs for the treatment of diseases such as diabetes and Alzheimer’s.^2–4

The prize includes a citation, a plaque and a cash prize and will be distributed by the Prime Minister of India. As part of the award the awardee will also be giving a lecture later on the topic of the award.

In line with this, at the end of this month one of the biggest and most important Indian meetings will be held in Jaipur – the 17^th NOST-Organic Chemistry Conference, at which our India representative Deeksha Gupta will be present and one of OBC’s Editorial Board members, Christian Hackenberger will be giving a talk on the ‘Synthesis and Cellular Delivery of Functional Proteins’.

References

1 Srinivasa et al., “Silicon Incorporated Morpholine Antifungals: Design, Synthesis, and Biological Evaluation”, ACS Med. Chem. Lett., 2015, DOI: 10.1021/acsmedchemlett.5b00245.

2 Srinivasa et al., “Identification of noreremophilane-based inhibitors of angiogenesis using zebrafish assays”, Org. Biomol. Chem., 2015, DOI: 10.1039/C5OB01594D.

3 Srinivasa et al., “Synthesis of palmyrolide A and its cis-isomer and mechanistic insight into trans–cis isomerisation of the enamide macrocycle”, Chem. Commun., 2013, DOI: 10.1039/C3CC40541A

4 Srinivasa et al., “Zinc mediated allylations of chlorosilanes promoted by ultrasound: Synthesis of novel constrained sila amino acids”, Org. Biomol. Chem., 2014, DOI: 10.1039/C4OB00294F

RSC Organic Division Poster Symposium 2015, headline sponsored by F. Hoffmann-La Roche, Ltd.

Abstract submission is now open.

This poster symposium for final year organic chemistry PhD students will take place at The Royal Society of Chemistry at Burlington House, in London, Monday 30 November 2015.

The closing date for submissions is Wednesday 30 September 2015.
Get more information or submit an abstract now.


This symposium offers final year PhD students a chance to showcase their research to their peers, leading academics and industrial chemists. It is open to all branches of organic chemistry – in its broadest interpretation – and has a tradition of being the most competitive and highly-regarded organic chemistry symposium for PhD students in the UK and Ireland.

There will be a first prize of £500, two runner-up prizes of £250, and a ‘selected by Industry’ prize – also of £500. Industrial delegates will select this winner based on the potential for application in an industrial context.

We would like to thank F. Hoffmann-La Roche, Ltd. and our industry sponsors for their generous support of this event.

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