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Moritz Dechant

For the third time in only 13 months, the PhD candidate from the Lehmann group has been awarded a poster prize at an international conference. This time in Kyoto, Japan.

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Gerhard Bringmann drawing complicated mixed formulas

The University of Pretoria has awarded the professor from Würzburg and President of the Scholarship Program BEBUC an Extraordinary Professorship. It is intended to intensify the already most fruitful collaboration between the South‐African University, the German NGO Förderverein Uni Kinshasa e.V. (fUNIKIN), and the University of Würzburg.

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Siegfried Hünig, Cynthia Burrows, Claudia Höbartner

The Siegfried Hünig Lecture, this year presented by Professor Cynthia Burrows, once again demonstrated the importance of interdisciplinary research and an open scientific mind.

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The surface of the enzyme levansucrase has been redesigned to produce sugar polymers. (Picture: AK Seibel)

The Seibel group has modified the enzyme levansucrase using a new method. The enzyme can now produce sugar polymers that are exciting for applications in the food industry and medicine.

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Prof. Dr. Cynthia J. Burrows

“Physical Organic Chemistry of the Genome” is the title of this year’s Siegfried Hünig Lecture on June 7. Prof. Cynthia J. Burrows, internationally renowned chemist at the University of Utah, will give the audience an overview of her highly successful DNA research.

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Professor Frank Würthner

Frank Würthner has been awarded an Advanced Grant of the European Research Council worth EUR 2.5 million. He wants to use the money to push the conversion of solar energy to fuel.

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[Translate to Englisch:] Prof. Dr. Frank Würthner

The Institute of Chemistry of the Academia Sinica in Taiwan honors Frank Würthner, nominating him as the recipient of the “Ta-shue Chou Lectureship Award” and inviting him to Taipeh.

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Prof. Dr. Claudia Höbartner

Claudia Höbartner, since July 2017 Chair of Organic Chemistry I at the University of Würzburg, explores the blueprint of life – the nucleic acids DNA and RNA.

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Prof. Dr. Frank Würthner

This prestigious distinction has been awarded to Frank Würthner and four other scientists from the University of Würzburg this year. The five faculty members and one researcher honored as “Citation Laureate” are among the most frequently cited and hence most influential authors in their fields of research.

 

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Blaise Kimbadi Lombe and Jean-Pierre Mufusama

The German foundation Else‐Kröner‐Fresenius‐Stiftung has again granted the support of the Excellence

Scholarship Program BEBUC for the next three years. The aim of the project is to recognize brilliant talents in the Congo and to promote them on their way to a professorship.

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sugar molecule lands on tumor protein

Scientists from Würzburg have synthesized a complex sugar molecule which specifically binds to the tumor protein Galectin-1. This could help to recognize tumors at an early stage and to combat them in a targeted manner.

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