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Honorary Guest Professorship for Gerhard Bringmann

05/29/2008

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.

Dean J. Liu, G. Bringmann
Dean Junyi Liu and Gerhard Bringmann, the new Honorary Guest Professor

In a solemn ceremony, Prof. Wehan Lin, professor of pharmacy at the 'State Key Laboratory of Natural and Biomimetic Drugs' presented the CV of G. Bringmann and appreciated his achievements and activities (i.a., as a dean, as a coordinator and/or principal investigator in many research networks). The Dean of the Faculty, Prof. Junyi Liu, then solemnly awarded the Honorary Guest Professorship certificate and donated a silver bowl of Peking University as a gift from the university and the faculty. Prof. Bringmann thanked the Dean, the Faculty, and the Peking University for the outstanding honor of being the first scientist to obtain this award from the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences. He then presented his own work in an excellent lecture, including recent work by Dr. Minjuan Xu from Prof. Lin's group, who has recently spent a very successful postdoctoral stay in Wuerzburg. The lecture was followed by a vivid scientific discussion.

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