Saarbrücken, May 07, 2024 - The Biological and Medicinal Chemistry Sector of the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Capps Green Zomaya Memorial Trust awarded the 11th Capps Green Zomaya Award to Professor Anna K. H. Hirsch. Hirsch received a Royal Society of Chemistry medal and certificate, along with £1500 of prize money. She has also been invited to give the ‘Capps Green Zomaya Memorial Lecture’ at the 35th Symposium on Medicinal Chemistry in Eastern England.
Prof. Anna K. H. Hirsch, Head of the Department Drug Design and Optimization at the Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS) and Professor at Saarland University, has been honored with the Capps Green Zomaya Award. This award, given by the Biological and Medicinal Chemistry Sector (BMCS) of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) and the Capps Green Zomaya Memorial Trust, honors researchers in medicinal or computational medicinal chemistry. The HIPS is a site of the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) in collaboration with Saarland University.
The award ceremony took place on April 25th, during the annual Eastern England Medicinal Chemistry Symposium in Stevenage, UK, recognizing Hirsch's work on novel approaches targeting multi-drug-resistant pathogens. Her work focuses on target-based anti-infective drug discovery and optimization by adopting rational approaches in combination with the protein-templated strategies of dynamic combinatorial chemistry and kinetic target-guided synthesis.
The Capps Green Zomaya Memorial Award recognizes work in medicinal or computational medicinal chemistry. The award was established by Celltech, GlaxoSmithKline, NicOx and Vernalis, and is now independently administered by the BMCS of the RSC in conjunction with the Capps Green Zomaya Trust.
