With their newly created 'Dr. Margaret Faul Award for Women in Chemistry' Georg Thieme Publishers and the synthetic methodology reference work Science of Synthesis will honour young women chemists. The award, which will be issued for the first time next year, comprises 5,000 Euros prize money and is intended to support the young awardee in her career. Award co-founder and Science of Synthesis editorial board member Dr. Margaret Faul lends her name to the award. Nominations are currently being accepted. The winner will be chosen by an expert jury and will be presented with the award by Dr. Margaret Faul.
The 'Dr. Margaret Faul Award for Women in Chemistry' was designed to honour women scientists within the first 15 years of their independent career who have made a significant contribution to synthetic chemistry. In addition to organic chemistry, the scope of research considered by the award committee includes organometallic chemistry, medical and biological chemistry, molecular design, and materials chemistry. Chemists in research and industry around the world are invited to nominate worthy colleagues for the award.
Since 2003, Margaret Faul has been at Amgen, Inc., and is currently Vice President Process Development responsible for the development and the commercialization of Amgen's portfolio of synthetic and biological products. In 2017, Dr. Faul joined the Science of Synthesis editorial board.
Dr. Faul heads the award review committee together with Professor Alois Fürstner, Managing Director at the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung (Max-Planck-Institut for Coal Research), Mülheim on Ruhr, Germany, and chairman of the Science of Synthesis editorial board.
The Dr. Margaret Faul Award for Women in Chemistry will be presented for the first time at the European Symposium on Organic Chemistry (ESOC), which will take place in Vienna on July 14th through 18th, 2019. The winner of the award will present her research in a lecture at the conference.
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