The DPhG Foundation (Horst Böhme Foundation) honors successful young scientists with its award. This year, the awardee is BIGS-DrugS alumnus and junior professor of pharmaceutical bioanalytics and natural product research (WittW2), Prof. Dr. (PhD) Raphael Reher of Philipps University of Marburg. Reher's research combines modern analytical chemistry, AI-supported data analysis, and classical natural product research with translational relevance. His research group is currently focusing on marine endosymbiotic fungi.
The DPhG honors outstanding dissertations with the Carl Wilhelm Scheele Prize. This year, the award was given to BIGS DrugS alumnus Dr. (PhD) Julian Breitenbach for his thesis, "Peptidomimetics in Drug Development: Substrates, Titrants, and Inhibitors to Study and Combat SARS-CoV-2 and Proteolysis-Targeting Chimeras as 18F-Tracers."
Furthermore, the DPhG annually honors eight scientists for their exceptional presentations at the meeting. The Dr. August and Dr. Anni Lesmüller Foundation awarded two poster prizes to BIGS DrugS doctoral students Helena Skalski (pharmaceutical and cellbiological chemistry) and Ann-Kathrin Dobbelstein (pharmacology).
