Pharmaceuticals Best Paper Award 2015

It is always a difficult task for a jury to classify articles from a selection of outstanding manuscripts. This was the case again this year when we had to award a prize to three contributions only, whereas we read so many interesting and exciting results published in 2012 and 2013. Anyway, the members of the jury did their job and have the pleasure to announce that the three following publications won the Pharmaceuticals Best Paper Award for 2015.

• 1st Prize
  Ivana Cacciatore, Erika Fornasari, Leonardo Baldassarre, Catia Cornacchia, Stefania Fulle, Ester Sara Di Filippo, Tiziana Pietrangelo and Francesco Pinnen
  A Potent (R)-alpha-bis-lipoyl Derivative Containing 8-Hydroxyquinoline Scaffold: Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of Its Neuroprotective Capabilities in SH-SY5Y Human Neuroblastoma Cells
  Pharmaceuticals 2013, 6(1), 54-69; doi:10.3390/ph6010054
  Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8247/6/1/54
• 2nd Prize
  Albert J. Chang, Ravindra DeSilva, Sandeep Jain, Kimberley Lears, Buck Rogers and Suzanne Lapi
  89Zr-Radiolabeled Trastuzumab Imaging in Orthotopic and Metastatic Breast Tumors
  Pharmaceuticals 2012, 5(1), 79-93; doi:10.3390/ph5010079
  Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8247/5/1/79
• 3rd Prize
  Luiza I. Hernandez, Katie S. Flenker, Frank J. Hernandez, Aloysius J. Klingelhutz, James O. McNamara and Paloma H. Giangrande
  Methods for Evaluating Cell-Specific, Cell-Internalizing RNA Aptamers
  Pharmaceuticals 2013, 6(3), 295-319; doi:10.3390/ph6030295
  Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8247/6/3/295

The Prize Awarding Committee describes the article “A Potent (R)-alpha-bis-lipoyl Derivative Containing 8-Hydroxyquinoline Scaffold: Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of Its Neuroprotective Capabilities in SH-SY5Y Human Neuroblastoma Cells” as “An interesting preclinical approach, newly combining antioxidant/metal-chealting (in neuroprotective) molecules for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, such as PD or AD”.

We believe these three papers represent valuable contributions to Pharmaceuticals and the scientific literature. On behalf of the Prize Awarding Committee and the Editorial Board of Pharmaceuticals, we warmly congratulate these three groups. In recognition of their accomplishment, Dr. Ivana Cacciatore, Dr. Suzanne Lapi, and Dr. Paloma H. Giangrande will have the opportunity of publishing an additional Open Access format review or research paper, free of charge, in our Journal, Pharmaceuticals.

Prize Awarding Committee

• Editor-in-Chief
  Dr. Jean Jacques Vanden Eynde
  Laboratory of Organic Chemistry (FS), University of Mons-UMONS, Place du parc, 23, 7000 Mons, Belgium
  E-Mail: [email protected]
• Associate Editor
  Dr. Annie Mayence
  Formerly Professor at the Haute Ecole Provinciale de Hainaut-Condorcet, 7330 Saint-Ghislain, Belgium
  E-Mail: [email protected]
• Editorial Board Member
  Prof. Dr. Klaus Kopka Division of Radiopharmaceutical Chemistry, Research Program Imaging and Radiooncology, German Cancer Research Center (dkfz), Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany
  E-Mail: [email protected]
• Editorial Board Member
  Prof. Dr. Thomas Rades Reseach Chair in Pharmaceutical Design and Drug Delivery Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, Department of Pharmacy, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 2, 2100 København Ø, Denmark
  E-Mail: [email protected]