RSC Advances sponsors young chemists at the Asian Chemical Congress

21 Sep 2011

The Royal Society of Chemistry was proud to sponsor the workshop on frontiers in drug discovery research as well as two Young Chemists Awards at the 14th Asian Chemical Congress which was held in Thailand on the 5-8th September 2011. It was one of the largest chemical symposium in Asia with approximately 2000 delegates from over 30 countries (Japan, Taiwan, China, Korea, Malaysia, India, Brunei etc…).

Delegates gathered at the Queen Sikirit Convention Centre, in Bangkok, for four days of chemistry extravaganza. They were exposed to 13 parallel sessions covering a number of subject areas from materials and polymer chemistry to analytical and environmental chemistry, including physical, organic, inorganic and drug discovery sessions. The plenary talks included two Nobel Prize Winners: Ada E Yonath (Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2009) and Yuan Tseh Lee (Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1986).

RSC Advances was pleased to present two Young Chemists Awards to MISS SUJITTRA POORAHONG and MISS SALUMA SAMANMAN who presented work on the following:

Cauliflower polyaniline sensor arrays and its applications to detect hydrogen peroxide, S. Poorahong et al.

Highly sensitive label-free capacitive immunosensor based on layer-by-layer self-assembled gold nanoparticles, S. Samanman et al.

Sujittra Poorahong and Kathleen Too

Saluma Samanman and Kathleen Too

Both winners were from the Prince of Songkla University, Trace Analysis and Biosensor Research Center, Faculty of Science, Thailand. The analytical young chemists sessions were chaired by Professors Orawan Chailapakul (Chulalongkorn University), Chongdee Thammakhet (Prince of Songkla University), Gunter Grampp (Graz University of Technology , Austria) and Chutintorn Punwong (Prince of Songkla University). Many congratulations to the winners!