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Jiarong Wu presenting her poster

Jiarong Wu received a poster prize at the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry (MASC) Meeting 2023 in Birmingham, UK.

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Röntgen Prize winner Merle Röhr (center) with her laudator Frank Würthner and University Vice President Caroline Kisker. (Picture: Heiko Becker / Universitätsbund Würzburg)

Dr. Merle Röhr has been awarded the Röntgen Prize of the University of Würzburg and the Universitätsbund for her outstanding achievements. She conducts research in the field of solar technologies.

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Prof. Dr. Joanna Wencel-Delord (Photo: private)

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.

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Group picture of the XI. Nucleic Acid Chemistry Meeting (Photo: A. Heckel)

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.

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Leonard Fink and Franziska Schneider presenting their certificates, and laudatory speaker Christoph Lambert (photo: C. Stadler)

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.

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Prof. Donald Hilvert with host Prof. Claudia Höbartner (photo: C. Stadler)

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

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Specific interactions cause spherical nanoparticles of polymers to rearrange themselves into worm-like structures during cooling. The resulting hydrogel dissolves again when heated. (Image: Theresa Zorn/ Universität Würzburg)

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

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