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CONFERENCE REPORT 17th Iberian Peptide Meeting Madrid, Spain, 5-7 February 2020. The 17th edition of the Iberian Peptide Meeting (EPI2020, Madrid, Spain, February 5-7), an EPS-sponsored reunion, was held at the auditorium of the Rocasolano Institute of Physical Chemistry, for the scientific sessions, and at the 110 Room of the Medicinal Chemistry Institute for exhibitors and lunches. The meeting was organized by researchers of both Institutes, belonging to the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). After Continue reading →

The European Peptide Society (EPS) invites nominations for EPS Awards 2020   The Josef Rudinger Memorial Lecture Award The Josef Rudinger Memorial Lecture Award is presented every two years, during the European Peptide Symposium, in commemoration of Josef Rudinger’s role in the foundation of the European Peptide Symposia and of diverse contributions he made to peptide chemistry. Preference should be given to a candidate with long standing contributions to the field. The Leonidas Zervas Award Continue reading →

Predoctoral researcher position @ Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium Topic: Peptide Hydrogels. Hydrogels are part of the modern drug delivery platforms and tissue regeneration. One important route towards slow release drug delivery and ‘soft’ media for cell proliferation involves the encapsulation of therapeutics/cells into hydrogels. At ORGC, short hydrogel‐forming α-peptides (containing unmodified natural amino acids) were developed. Currently, the study of their physicochemical (rheology, IR, CryoTEM) and pharmacological profiles (e.g. cytotoxicity, in vitro and in Continue reading →

CONFERENCE REPORT The Emil-Fischer Memorial Symposium “What would Emil Fischer do today?” Berlin, Germany, 9 December 2019. Emil Fischer, the great explorer of carbohydrates, peptides, enzymes and nucleosides, died 100 years ago. On December 9th, 2019, scientists in Berlin celebrated his pioneering work and the dawn of a new scientific discipline with a One-Day-Symposium. Eleven speakers from six countries followed the invitation from the conference chairs Oliver Seitz (HU Berlin) and Christian Hackenberger (FMP Berlin Continue reading →

CONFERENCE REPORT Annual One-Day meeting on Medicinal Chemistry of KVCV and SRC, Peptide Drug Discovery: a Niche Area? Brussels, Belgium, 22 November 2019. The Medicinal Chemistry Divisions of the two Belgian Chemical Societies, the Koninklijke Vlaamse Chemische Vereniging (KVCV) and the Société Royale de Chimie (SRC), organise every year an international one-day symposium with the aim to update participants on selected areas of pharmaceutical research by specialists in their respective field. MedChem 2019 was held Continue reading →

CONFERENCE REPORT Noncanonical amino acids (NcAAs): Tools for biological and biophysical investigations, Paris, France, 21–22 October 2019. On October 21-22, 2019, Sorbonne University hosted the first international symposium which focuses on the emergent use of “Non-Canonical Amino Acids” (ncAAs) in peptide and protein science.  The conference was held in the University of Pierre and Marie Curie campus, Paris. Nearly 100 researchers from France and ten other countries (Belgium, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Poland, Finland, United Kingdom, Continue reading →