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We are pleased to announce that the winner of the 2019 Young Investigator Award, sponsored by MDPI and Molecules, is Dr Carles Galdeano.
Dr Carles Galdeano is currently a Serra Hunter Professor at the University of Barcelona. His current main project is aimed at the identification and characterization of chemical probes to validate specific and medically relevant E3 ligases that can be also employed for PROTAC construction. He is also involved in several drug discovery programs to find new molecules for the treatment of cancer and Alzheimer’s Disease. Dr Galdeano has led several competitive projects (e.g., CaixaImpulse) and has been awarded with competitive fellowships at national and international levels (e.g., EMBO, Marie Curie, and Beatriu de Pinós). The scientific merits achieved by Dr Galdeano during his research career so far have also been recognized with numerous awards (e.g., Extraordinary Doctorate Award of the University of Barcelona and the Young Medicinal Chemist 2015 Prize in Spain). Besides an excellent number of publications (23 articles with more than 1000 citations, most of them in Q1 journals, and 4 patents among other outputs), Dr Galdeano boasts an impressive experience in technology transfer.
As the awardee, Dr Galdeano will receive an honorarium of 2000 CHF.
We would like to thank all the applicants from various fields of study for their participation, and all the Award Committee members for their evaluation of the abundant excellent applications.
Dr. Derek J. McPhee Editor-in-Chief, Molecules
Molecules 2019 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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