2014 IUPAC-Richter Prize – call for nomination

IUPAC and Gedeon Richter, Plc. are pleased to announce the 2014 IUPAC-Richter Prize in Medicinal Chemistry. The Prize has been established by a generous gift from the Chemical Works of Gedeon Richter, Plc. (Budapest, Hungary) to acknowledge the key role that medicinal chemistry plays toward improving human health. The prize –USD 10000- is to be awarded to an internationally recognized scientist, preferably a medicinal chemist, whose activities or published accounts have made an outstanding contribution to the practice of medicinal chemistry or to an outstanding example of new drug discovery. Previous IUPAC-Richter Prizes were awarded to Malcolm F.G. Stevens in 2006, Jan Heeres in 2008, Arun K. Ghosh in 2010, and Stephen Hanessian in 2012.

The 2014 IUPAC-Richter Prize will be presented in September 2014 during the EFMC International Symposium on Medicinal Chemistry in Lisbon Portugal, where the recipient will also give a plenary lecture on the subject of his/her research. The travel expenses of the prize winner will be arranged by the Richter Plc. The winner will also be invited to give a lecture in the awards symposium at the 2014 ACS National Medicinal Chemistry Symposium in Charleston, South Carolina, 18-21 May 2014.

Applicants should be received by NOMINATION only, with just one person needing to serve in that capacity, although a total of five (5) individuals should be listed as referees overall. The package must be submitted electronically and should contain a complete

resume,
a professional autobiography of not more than two pages,
and a one-page summary of what the individual considers to be his/her activities, accomplishments and/or publications that have had the most significant impact upon the field of Medicinal Chemistry.

The material will be forwarded confidentially to an independent selection committee appointed by the IUPAC Subcommittee on Drug Discovery and Development.

Nomination materials should be submitted by 31 December 2013 to IUPAC Secretariat by email at: secretariat@iupac.org.

For further information, please contact Professor C. Robin Ganellin at c.r.ganellin@ucl.ac.uk

Previous IUPAC-Richter Prizes:

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