ICBS Young Chemical Biology Award 

 

The ICBS Young Chemical Biology Award recognizes young investigators who have demonstrated accomplishments and made ground-breaking contributions to chemical biology. Their work was presented in a special scientific session at the annual meeting.

 

The following young investigators presented their work during the 2013 Global Rising Stars of Chemical Biology session:  

Bradley L. Pentelute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Novel Chemical Entities Introduced Into Cells via a Bacterial Transporter  

 

Christian Ottmann, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands

Small-Molecule Stabilization of 14-3-3 Protein-Protein Interactions  

 

Xiaoguang Lei, National Institute of Biological Sciences, China

Probing Programmed Cell Death with Bioactive Small Molecules  

 

CSBJ-ICBS Best Poster Awards

Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal recognized poster presentation excellence with the following awards:

$500 for the 1st place poster -- Mayumi Yoshida,
Kyoto University, Japan,
Modulators for Splicing of IKBKAP, a Responsible Gene for Familial Dysautonomia

$300 for the 2nd place poster -- Yosuke Ota,
Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Japan,
Identification of HDAC3-Selective Inhibitors Using Click Chemistry-Based Combinatorial Fragment Assembly

$200 for the 3rd place poster -- Firman Jiang,
The University of Tokyo, Japan,
Development of Nitrosamines, Releasing Nitric Oxide in Cells
Upon Visible Light Irradiation

 

A special Poster Briefing Session allowed poster presenters to make a very brief oral introduction of their poster on stage to all conference delegates.