World renowned chemist Alois Fürstner was happy to accept the invitation to give this year's Siegfried Hünig Lecture on May, 26th in Würzburg.

Congratulations to Sofja-Kovalevskaja Awardee Dr. Gustavo Fernández Huertas. Due to his excellent research results, which were published in top chemistry journals and also received attention at international conferences, he was chosen as the very first awardee of the newly established “Keck-Köppe-Förderstiftung” with 5000 €.

Good news for the scientists at the Center of Nanosystems Chemistry (CNC). Two young colleagues from Asia have been granted fellowships for their stay here in Würzburg.

Several Bavarian universities do research activities in Africa and cooperate with African partners there. In a new network, they now want to bundle their activities and to develop, link and communicate them in public.

Viruses, bacteria, and other pathogens trigger changes to cell membranes in humans in the event of an infection. What exactly happens there will be investigated by a new research group at the universities of Würzburg and Duisburg-Essen. The faculty of chemistry and pharmacy is represented with the group of Prof. Dr. Jürgen Seibel, Institute of Organic Chemistry. The research cluster will receive around two million euros for their work.

8,75 million euros are available now for the construction of a news research building for the scientists at the Center for Nanosystems Chemistry (CNC).

About 3 million Euros have been granted to the research network UMWELTnanoTECH by the state ministry of environment and consumer safety (StMUV). The research group of Prof. Anke Krüger forms part of the network.

Recently, the new Senate of the University of Würzburg met for its constitutional meeting, in the course of which also a new chairman was elected.

The scholarship program BEBUC initiated by Gerhard Bringmann and his Congolese colleagues is developing most successfully and catches more and more the attention of a large public. Although the program now supports young scientist from all subjects, not only from chemistry, the journal Nachrichten aus der Chemie has now reported on it.

...to a recently renovated and modern building.

In 2013 the “Academic Ranking of World Universities” (“Shanghai Ranking”), a highly regarded research ranking of the 500 best universities worldwide, again puts Würzburg’s chemistry department in second place among all German universities and in 31st place worldwide.

In the fight against multi-resistant bacteria, University of Würzburg chemists may have achieved a major breakthrough. With a trick, they induced the bacteria to change their cell surface. This reduced the risk of infection dramatically.

At this year’s Nobel Laureate Meeting in Lindau the Institute of Organic Chemistry was particularly well represented by three young researchers.

Ulrich Mayerhöffer, former PhD student at the Institute of Organic Chemistry, will receive the VAA award for „an excellent dissertation in the field of chemical-pharmaceutical research and chemical engineering“.