Dr Andreas Bender wins Prize for Innovation in Medicinal Chemistry

Andreas Bender, Lecturer for Molecular Informatics at the Department of
Chemistry, receives the shared Innovation Prize of the German Pharmaceutical and Chemical Societies (DPhG and GDCh) 2011.

The prize acknowledges outstanding scientific achievements in the areas of medicinal and pharmaceutical chemistry. In those fields Andreas particularly contributed to the chemogenomics analysis of compound bioactivity data and the prediction and understanding of adverse drug reactions. The prize will be awarded at the Frontiers in Medicinal Chemistry conference in Saarbruecken, Germany, in
March 2011.

More information about current research in Dr Bender's group can be found at www-ucc.ch.cam.ac.uk/members/ab454 and more information about the prize can be found (in German) at www.gdch.de/strukturen/fg/med/innovation.htm.