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Young Investigator Award

Dear colleagues, 

We are pleased to announce that the winner of the Molecules 2022 Young Investigator Award is Prof. Dr. Cesar de la Fuente-Nunez. 

Dr. Cesar de la Fuente-Nunez serves as a Presidential Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. His research interests are in antibiotic discovery, synthetic biology, computational biology, microbiology, antimicrobial peptides, and microbiome engineering. Prof. Dr. Cesar de la Fuente received his PhD degree at the University of British Columbia in 2014 and continued postdoctoral research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a leader of his generation of molecular engineers, chemists, and bioengineers, pushing the frontiers of antibiotic discovery, a field of upmost importance to human health and to our society. He has given over 200 invited lectures and has an outstanding publication record, comprising over 110 publications in peer-reviewed international journals and multiple international patents. Prof. Dr. Cesar de la Fuente was also named a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate. He is an NIH MIRA investigator and has received recognition (over 50 major awards) and research funding from numerous other groups. He is clearly a rising star in the field of chemical biology. Please join us in congratulating Prof. Dr. Cesar de la Fuente for his outstanding achievements. 

As the awardee, Prof. Dr. Cesar de la Fuente will receive an honorarium of CHF 2000, an offer to publish a paper free of charge before 30 June 2023 in Molecules after peer review, and an engraved plaque. 

We would like to thank all of the nominators from various fields of study for their participation and all of the Award Committee Members for their evaluation of the many excellent nominations. 

Kind regards,
Molecules Award Team

 
Molecules 2022 Young Investigator Award
 
 
Past Winners
 
Year: 

Winner

Nikolay Kornienko
Universite de Montreal

Award Committee

Prof. Mark von Itzstein Chairman
Griffith University
Prof. Ying-Wei Yang
Jilin University
Dr. Maurizio Peruzzini
ICCOM CNR
Prof. Dr. Igor V. Alabugin
Prof. Hiroyuki Kataoka
Shujitsu University

Winner

Cesar de la Fuente
University of Pennsylvania

Award Committee

Prof. Farid Chemat Chairman
université d'Avignon
Prof. Ying-Wei Yang
Jilin University
Prof. Dr. Igor V. Alabugin
Prof. Dr. Michal Szostak
Dr. Daniel Cozzolino
University of Queensland
Dr. Maurizio Peruzzini
ICCOM CNR
Prof. Dr. Huan Pang
Yangzhou University
Dr. Myung Hwan Whangbo
North Carolina State University
Prof. Francesco Cacciola
University of Messina
Prof. Dr. Xueguang Shao
Nankai University
Prof. Qian Chen
Soochow University
Dr. Ildiko Badea
University of Saskatchewan
Prof. Dr. Josef Jampilek
Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University
Prof. Maria Camilla Bergonzi
University of Florence
Prof. Hiroyuki Kataoka
Shujitsu University

Winner

Biplab Maji
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Sciences Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata Mohanpur-741246, West Bengal, India

Award Committee

Prof. Farid Chemat Chairman
université d'Avignon
Dr. PAULA BERTON
Dr. Munkhbayar Batmunkh
Griffith University
Dr. Jon Sperry
Prof. Ramesh L. Gardas
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Dr. Łukasz Chrzanowski
Poznan University of Technology
Prof. Lakshmi Kotra
University of Toronto
Dr. Alice L. Perez
University of Costa Rica
Prof. Ashok Kakkar
McGill University
Dr. Kok Hwa Lim

Winner

Carles Galdeano
Department of Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Technology and Physical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy and Food Sciences, University of Barcelona

Award Committee

Dr. Derek McPhee Chairman
MDPI
Prof. Roman Dembinski
Oakland University
Dr. Myung Hwan Whangbo
North Carolina State University
Prof. Mark von Itzstein
Griffith University
Prof. Farid Chemat
université d'Avignon

Winner

Paul McGonigal
Durham University
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