Pharmaceuticals and the Organizing Committee of ECMC-5 gladly announce the winners of the ECMC-5 Best Presentation Award, Keynote Speaker Award, and Best Poster Award in 2019.

Best Presentation Award - " Novel radiolabeled silicon rhodamine dyes for bimodal scintigraphic and optical imaging " (Authors: Thines Kanagasundaram *, Carsten Sven Kramer, Eszter Boros, Klaus Kopka)

"Thines Kanagasundaram studied chemistry at the Ruprecht-Karls University in Heidelberg, Germany and received his Master’s degree in 2017. Currently he is a second year Ph.D. student in the German Cancer Research Center (Research Field: Radiopharmaceutical Chemistry, supervisor: Prof. Klaus Kopka) in Heidelberg. His doctoral thesis is focused on the synthesis of novel radiolabeled organic fluorophores for bimodal scintigraphic- and optical imaging which are of clinical interest for precise fluorescence-guided resection of tumors and their lymph node metastases."

Keynote Speaker Award - " Design, synthesis and in vitro biological evaluation of acrylamide derivatives against Chikungunya virus " (Authors: Edeildo Ferreira da Silva-Júnior *, Gabriel Felipe Silva Passos, Matheus Gabriel Moura Gomes, Thiago Mendonça de Aquino, Stephannie Janaina Maia de Souza, João Pedro Monteiro Cavalcante, Elane Conceição dos Santos, Ênio José Bassi, João Xavier de Araújo-Júnior)

" Edeildo Ferreira da Silva-Júnior studied Pharmacy at the Federal University of Alagoas, Maceió – Brazil. Subsequently, he received his Master’s degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences by the Federal University of Alagoas, Brazil, as well. Since his Master degree, he is working in the medicinal chemistry of Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD’s), collecting valuable experiences on the researches addressed to the development of novel synthetic compounds with activity against Leishmania spp. and Trypanosoma cruzi, in association with collaborators from the University of Strasbourg – France. He has Ph.D. degree in Chemistry and Biotechnology, with focus on the Medicinal and Biological Chemistry, obtained at the Federal University of Alagoas. During his Ph.D., he developed part of his project and thesis at the Institute of Pharmacy and Biochemistry from the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany. Current, he is Professor at the Chemistry and Biotechnology Institute from the Federal University of Alagoas, where he acts as Project-Leader and Laboratory-Head. Furthermore, he develops projects involving collaborators from the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz and Würtzburg University (Germany). He has several patents and high-qualified publications in organic and medicinal chemistry fields, such as Bioorganic Chemistry, Molecules, Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry, Biosensors & Bioelectronics, Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry, Current Drug Metabolism, Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy, and others. "

Best Poster Award - " Biological evaluation of Cetrarioid clade as cholinesterase inhibitors" (Authors: Noelia Fraga Matías, Isabel Maria Ureña Vacas, Elena González-Burgos *, M. Pilar Gómez-Serranillos)

" Noelia Fraga Matías is a collaboration scholarship student, Isabel Ureña Vacas is a second-year PhD student, Dr. Elena González Burgos is Assistant Professor and Dr. M. Pilar Gómez-Serranillos is Professor and Director of the research group. They belong to the Research Group Pharmacology of Natural Products of the Department of Pharmacology, Pharmacognosy and Botany of the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University Complutense of Madrid (Spain). Our consolidated research group has a long history studying phytochemical constituents and pharmacological activities of natural products. Particularly, one of our research lines, is to evaluate the neuroprotective activity of natural products from medicinal plants and lichens, deepening our understanding of its mechanisms of action. In parallel, we evaluate the ability of these natural compounds to cross the blood-brain barrier."