European Peptide Society

The first award will be given in September 2009. The winner will receive a cheque of €2000 and will be announced and listed in Journal of Peptide Science online and in print.

The 2008 Josef Rudinger Memorial Award lectures were presented by Horst Kessler (Munich Technical University, Germany) and by Manfred Mutter (EPF Lausanne, Switzerland). The 2008 Leonidas Zervas Award lecture was given by Anna Maria Papini, from the University of Florence, Italy. Sit back and enjoy these three lectures online!

EPS Symposia bring peptide scientists together, not only in science but also in football and tennis! The photo was taken at the EPS tennis event, hosted at the recent EPS Symposium.

The 6th Hellenic Forum on Bioactive Peptideswas was held again at the Conference and Cultural Center of the University of Patras, Greece on May 18-20, 2008 under the auspices of the European Peptide Society, the newly founded Hellenic Peptide Society, the "Leonidas Zervas" Foundation and the University of Patras..

The Journal of Peptide Science recently published a special issue with reviews, full papers and communications on membrane-active peptides. The manuscripts were submitted from participants at the 2nd Workshop on Biophysics of Membrane-Active Peptides. The chairmen of the symposium, Miguel A.R.B. Castanho and Margitta Dathe, write in their Editorial...

A review entitled "The role of peptides in blood-brain barrier nanotechnology" by Meritxell Teixidó and Ernest Giralt from The Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Barcelona, Spain and the Department of Organic Chemistry, University of Barcelona, Spain, gives a flavour of this special issue...

The Journal of Peptide Science will soon publish a selection of papers presented at the 2nd International Congress on Natural Peptides to Drugs, which took place in Zermatt, Switzerland from in April 2006. Philippe Bulet acted as a Guest Editor for this issue. Some of the articles were published as EarlyViews at the end of July 2007. We are pleased to provide free access to two articles in this issue.

On May 30, 2007 Professor Miroslaw T. Leplawy, one of the founders of polish peptide science, passed away. More importantly, he was a mentor, scientific father and friend to many of us.

Peptide Science chemists may be interested to read the article recently published by Aline Moulin, Jean Martinez and Jean-Alain Fehrentz and biologists may be interested to read the review by Mariola Kuczer, Grzegorz Rosinski and Danuta Konopinska...

The new cover of the Journal of Peptide Science features a conus species from Hainan, China, highlighting the extensive research made on conotoxins...