Professor Mahesh Hariharan from India came to Würzburg for the Dr. Reich Lecture, financed by the Tauber-Dr. Reich Foundation. This lecture series was opened last year with a talk delivered by Ron Naaman.

Professor Wesley Chalifoux from Canada is conducting research at the Center for Nanosystems Chemistry for three months, funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

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

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.

Ron Naaman, Professor at the Weizmann Institute, came to Würzburg on 13.11.2023 for a short visit to give the Dr. Reich Lecture 2023.

Prof Claudia Höbartner from the Institute of Organic Chemistry at the University of Würzburg receives this year's Hansen Family Award for her research on the biomolecular chemistry of functional nucleic acids.

The presentation of the Dr. Reich Prize 2023 took place on 11 October, this year's "Day of Organic Chemistry", an event for introducing the research groups to advanced undergraduate students.

The 12th SolTech conference took place in the Hotel Melchior Park in Würzburg from October 3 to October 5 2023

On September 27, the 2023 company outing of the Institute of Organic Chemistry took place in bright sunshine.

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.

Important progress for RNA research: A team led by Würzburg chemistry professor Claudia Höbartner has discovered a new ribozyme that can label RNA molecules in living cells.

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.