Joanna Wencel-Delord has been appointed to a W2 professorship for Organic Chemistry. Remarkably, she left the highly prestigious Université de Strasbourg, where she already had been a CNRS research director, to join the Institute of Organic Chemistry at JMU.

On the occasion of the XI. Nucleic Acid Chemistry Meeting of the DNG (German Nucleic Acid Society) about 120 researchers gathered at the University of Würzburg from 14th to 15th of September 2023, exchanging and discussing their most recent scientific results.

Lisa Reber from the Lehmann Group was awarded the Daniela Pucci Prize at the 16th European Liquid Crystal Conference held at the University of Calabria in Rende (Italy).

Great honor for Claudia Höbartner. She was awarded the Bavarian Medal of Merit in Munich by Minister President Markus Söder.

For the first time, the Dr. Reich Prize, established in honor of its founder, was awarded to Franziska Schneider and Leonard Fink. It was presented as part of the Siegfried Hünig Lecture 2023 by Prof. Christoph Lambert, member of the Board of Trustees of Tauber-Dr. Reich Foundation.

Donald Hilvert gave a plausible answer to this question in the Siegfried Hünig Lecture 2023 with fascinating experiments on directed evolution in the laboratory.

A previously unknown form of hydrogel formation has been elucidated: chemists found unusual interactions between polymers.

The "Solar Technologies go Hybrid" research program continues to receive funding of 1.7 million euros from the State of Bavaria. Now the aim is to produce synthetic fuels from carbon dioxide.

Katja Noll receives German Liquid Crystal Society(GLCS/ DFKG)'s Young Scientist Award for poster contribution.

Dr. Jake L. Greenfield has been awarded a prestigious Liebig Fellowship to start his independent research group in Würzburg. He will be joining the Institute of Organic Chemistry as a Habilitand.

Ravat, junior group leader at the Institute of Organic Chemistry, was awarded the prize, endowed with 5,000 euros, for his outstanding scientific achievements.

Louise Kersting was awarded a poster prize at a renowned international seminar in Klosters (Switzerland).

Chemistry professor Claudia Höbartner is being honoured for her outstanding research on the nucleic acids DNA and RNA: She receives the prestigious Leibniz prize endowed with 2.5 million euros.

Ann-Christin Pöppler receives the Lecturer Award of the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie. Her scientific work and her excellent teaching efforts have already been awarded several times.

Their work is most frequently cited in publications of other scientists. Researchers from the University - among them Frank Würthner - are therefore included in the Highly Cited Researchers 2022 List.