With a dynamic lesson on switchable agents and molecular rotors Ben L. Feringa inspired an attentive audience during the Siegfried-Hünig-Lecture 2015.

Finding new agents against infectious deseases is the main interest of two congolese PhD students from the Institute of Organic Chemistry. Recently, they have been awarded for the presentation of their results.

World renowned chemist Ben L. Feringa was happy to accept the invitation to give this year's Siegfried Hünig Lecture on May, 21st in Würzburg.

Habilitand Dr. Florian Beuerle from the Institute of Organic Chemistry has been awarded with the Thieme Chemistry Journal Award 2015.

“Technical infrastructure is a prerequisite for progress"! (University President Alfred Forchel)

Frank Würthner and his group have been successful in their search for new, better materials to produce organic semiconductors. Their latest development has even broken a world record: It is a better electricity conductor than all other comparable materials.

The Institute of Organic Chemistry is becoming more and more attractive to outstanding young scientists from other countries. Consequently, in 2014 the university's press department already portrayed two of them.

The Gusi Foundation has awarded the Gusi Peace Prize to the professors Gerhard Bringmann (Würzburg) and Virima Mudogo (Kinshasa) and has thus honored them for their scientific achievements in the search for bioactive compounds and for their humanitarian merits for young academics in the Congo.

The Scholarship Program BEBUC, which supports excellent students and pupils in the Congo on their way to a professorship, has again evaluated scholars and new candidates in the East of the Congo. This time, students from Kisangani, a city in the North of the country, took also part in the examinations.

Jürgen Seibel, biobiophysicist Markus Sauer and their coworkers have managed to take a unique look at the membranes of human cells using a new technique. This technique that they have devised makes individual saccharified proteins and lipids visible at the molecular level.

A large container with more than 10 tons of reference literature and glass equipment has started

a long journey from Würzburg. Its destination is Goma in the East of the Democratic Republic of

the Congo. The delivery is designed for a partner university of the University of Würzburg, the

Free University of the Countries of the Great Lakes.

The renowned “Academic Ranking of World Universities” (“Shanghai Ranking”) puts Würzburg's Chemistry Department on 30th place. Only one German university is placed better.