Abstract
These memoirs span the first fifty years of the European Federation for Medicinal Chemistry (EFMC). They are the personal observations and remembrance of Prof. Henk Timmerman, who witnessed how the EFMC developed since its inception in December 1969, and are published at the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the EFMC. They include, with permission from the EFMC, material that was previously published in EFMC newsletters. These texts are for the first time united and completed, to tell the history of an organization that has accompanied and shaped the development of medicinal chemistry in Europe. They also highlight, through facts and anecdotes, the role of the men and women who are the scientific leaders and drivers of this extended scientific community.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 2363-2387 |
| Number of pages | 25 |
| Journal | ChemMedChem |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue number | 24 |
| Early online date | 16 Oct 2020 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 15 Dec 2020 |
Funding
The Federation grants three awards: The oldest, the Nauta Award, was granted for the first time in 1992 (Figure ). The prize was an initiative of the Dutch EFMC‐NAO and supported by the Nauta Foundation, which received its means from the legacy of Professor and Mrs. Wijbe Nauta. Prof. Wijbe Nauta was one of the founders of the EFMC. The award has been introduced as “Nauta Award for Pharmacochemistry”; in 2018 it was renamed “Nauta Pharmacochemistry Award for Medicinal Chemistry and Chemical Biology” (Table ). It is presented to an individual to acknowledge contributions to ‘advance medicinal chemistry in general and the development of international organizational structures in medicinal chemistry, and is given for outstanding achievements in the field of medicinal chemistry’.
Keywords
- Europe
- History
- Medicinal Chemistry
- Societies