Description

This year, as a sponsor, Pharmaceuticals would like to award the best presentation as elected by the members of the scientific committee. The Award will consist of 500 Swiss Francs. We look forward to posting your contributions.

Number of awards available

1

1. Full PPT presentation must be submitted to ECMC-4.
2. The quality of the presentation.
3. The scientific content of the presentation

Evaluation

1. Each Evaluation Committee member will give an assessment for each applicant in terms of the criteria outlined above.
2. Total score for each presentation will be ranked, from highest to lowest.
3. If two or more students get the same score, further evaluation will be carried out.
4. All decisions made by the Evaluation Committee are final.

Best Presentation at ECMC-4

Pharmaceuticals and the Organizing Committee of ECMC-4 congratulate Valentina Barcherini, Margarida Espadinha, Joana Soares, Sara Gomes, Alexandra Antunes, Lucília Saraiva, Maria Santos who received an award for the best presentation at ECMC-4:

Topic: Enantiopure oxazoloisoindolinones: Promising small molecules for p53-based therapy with potential anticancer properties
authored by Valentina Barcherini, Margarida Espadinha, Joana Soares, Sara Gomes, Alexandra Antunes, Lucília Saraiva, Maria Santos

"Valentina Barcherini is a second-year PhD student at M.M.M. Santos’ team (Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Lisbon) and member of the Medicinal Chemistry group of the Research Institute for Medicines, iMed.ULisboa. Valentina’s doctoral research is centred on the development of novel small molecules that act as dual p53-MDM2/X protein-protein interactions inhibitors. Valentina holds a master’s degree in Bioorganic Chemistry from the New University of Lisbon, Portugal. Previously, she graduated in Applied Chemistry in University of Padova (Italy)."