Marina Safont, PhD student at the institute of organic chemistry (supervisor Prof. Würthner), was awarded the Royal Chemical Society's 2008 OBC Poster prize at an international symposium held in Geneva.
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Prof. Dr. Carsten Schmuck accepted a call for a chair of organic chemistry at the University Duisburg-Essen and will leave the University of Würzburg by the end of this summer term. He declined another call for a chair at the University of Jena.
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The School of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Peking University has awarded Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Gerhard Bringmann the status of an Honorary Guest Professor. The School thus honors Prof. Bringmann as a leading, worldwide renowned scientist in the field of natural products chemistry, working, in particular, on the discovery of novel natural products from plants and sponges, with activity against infectious diseases and cancer.
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The Chamber of Industry and Commerce (IHK) Würzburg-Schweinfurt grants 30.000 EUR to the Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen-Center for Complex Material Systems (RCCM).
moreThe Wissenschaftsrat rated 77 German universities and research institutions, assigning a 'very good' to the Institute of Organic Chemistry in Würzburg.
more"Where have I seen that before?" is the titel of an online news article in Nature. It tells the story of an embarrassing scientific mistake made by two foreign research groups and its discovery by Manfred Christl, a chemist at the University of Würzburg.
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For about 3 weeks from end of November the Congolese Professors Dibungi Kalenda and Virima Mudogo (University of Kinshasa) visit the Institute of Organic Chemistry.
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This year the Klaus-Grohe-Award for Medicinal Chemistry / Drug Research goes to Tanja Gulder, Ph.D. student at the group of Prof. Bringmann.
moreFrom 15th to 29th of October Prof. Dr. Torsten Fiebig (Boston College, USA) visits the Institute of Organic Chemistry.
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