MCS Awards and Prizes:
The Barry Cohen Award:
This year's recipient of the Barry Cohen Award:
This year's recipient of the Barry Cohen Award is Prof. Daniel Rauh from the Technical University of Dortmund (Germany)
About the Barry Cohen Award:
This international prize, which is awarded annually by the MCS-ICS, became possible thanks to an endowment fund donated by Teva Pharmaceutical Industries in memory of Mr. Abraham (Barry) Cohen, a longstanding member of Teva's Board of Directors, who greatly contributed to the development of the company over more than 20 years, and passed away in 2012.
Former award recipients:
-Prof. Barry Trost (Stanford U.)
-Prof. Paul A. Wender (Stanford U.)
-Prof. Richard B. Silverman (Northwestern U.)
-Prof. Brian K. Schoichet (UCSF)
-Prof. Matthew D. Disney (Scripps)
-Prof. Peter Seberger (Max Planck)
The NCK Prize:
This year's recipient of the NCK Award:
This year's recipient of the NCK prize is Prof. Timor Baasov from the Technion.
About the NCK Award:
NCK (www.nck.dk) is a Danish research and drug-development company (founded in 1956) that is focused on organic chemistry syntheses at various synthetic scales.
Together with the ICS, the NCK prize will be given in alternating years to a young and to a well-established medicinal chemist, respectively.
Former award recipients:
-Prof. David Margulies (WIS)