Novartis hosts awards
A Celebration of Organic
Chemistry, Horsham UK, 18-19 September 2006
 A Celebration of Organic
Chemistry , a conference organised by SCI’s Fine Chemicals
Group in association with pharmaceuticals
and healthcare specialist
Novartis, will be held at
the Novartis Institutes for Bio-Medical Research (NIBR) in Horsham,
West Sussex, UK, on
18–19 September 2006.
This is the second
in a series of UK chemistry
meetings jointly organised by
SCI and the pharmaceutical
industry.
The programme will include
talks by past winners of the
annual Novartis young investigator
in chemistry award. The
2005 awards will be presented
during the conference, featuring
lectures by the 2005 recipients
Benjamin List from the Max
Planck Institute in Mülheim,
Germany, and Dirk Trauner
from the University of California
in Berkeley, California.
The award carries an unrestricted
research grant for each
of the recipients and is presented
annually to outstanding
scientists under the age of 40
who are active in the areas of
organic or bioorganic chemistry
in the broadest sense.
List receives the award for
his contribution to the development
and application of new
synthetic methodology in the
area of organocatalysis.
Trauner is awarded for his contribution
to the development
of new synthetic methodology
in natural product synthesis
and bioorganic chemistry.
The award was created to
mark Novartis’ commitment to
scientific excellence
.
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