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During the celebration of their 30th anniversary, the Université Libre des Pays des Grands Lacs (ULPGL) in Goma in the East of the Democratic Republic of the Congo has awarded the honorary doctorate to the natural-products chemist Gerhard Bringmann from Würzburg, Germany.

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To give to the Congo a new generation of young professors: That is the aim of the Excellence Scholarship Program BEBUC. Now, again, scholars and new candidates were examined by the international selection committee in the capital Kinshasa. As a result, BEBUC presently supports 165 scholars.

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Dieudonné Tshitenge Tshitenge and Blaise Kimbadi Lombe

Finding new agents against infectious deseases is the main interest of two congolese PhD students from the Institute of Organic Chemistry. Recently, they have been awarded for the presentation of their results.

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Florian Beuerle

Habilitand Dr. Florian Beuerle from the Institute of Organic Chemistry has been awarded with the Thieme Chemistry Journal Award 2015.

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Frank Würthner and his group have been successful in their search for new, better materials to produce organic semiconductors. Their latest development has even broken a world record: It is a better electricity conductor than all other comparable materials.

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The Institute of Organic Chemistry is becoming more and more attractive to outstanding young scientists from other countries. Consequently, in 2014 the university's press department already portrayed two of them.

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The Gusi Foundation has awarded the Gusi Peace Prize to the professors Gerhard Bringmann (Würzburg) and Virima Mudogo (Kinshasa) and has thus honored them for their scientific achievements in the search for bioactive compounds and for their humanitarian merits for young academics in the Congo.

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The Scholarship Program BEBUC, which supports excellent students and pupils in the Congo on their way to a professorship, has again evaluated scholars and new candidates in the East of the Congo. This time, students from Kisangani, a city in the North of the country, took also part in the examinations.

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Jürgen Seibel, biobiophysicist Markus Sauer and their coworkers have managed to take a unique look at the membranes of human cells using a new technique. This technique that they have devised makes individual saccharified proteins and lipids visible at the molecular level.

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