Awards

As part of the ETH Day 2024 celebrations, Dr. Miguel Steiner received the IBM Research Award 2024 for his dissertation on navigating the catalytic reaction space with automated and controlled mechanism exploration approaches. The prize, sponsored by IBM Research Zurich Laboratory, is awarded alternately to outstanding master's and doctoral theses in the fields of computational chemistry, physics, biology and materials science.

The Dandelion Award, initiated in 2021 by ETH AI Center and ETH Entrepreneur Club, recognizes professors for their outstanding efforts to promote entrepreneurship at ETH Zurich and beyond. This year, Prof. Roger Schibli (IPW) has been honored with the award.

The Hansch Award is named after Prof. Corwin Hansch, a pioneer of the quantitative structure-activity relationship and physical chemistry applied to drug discovery. This year the Hansch Award has been awarded to Sereina Riniker, Associate Professor at the Institute of Molecular Physical Science, who has made significant contributions to the field.

The Ralph Shangraw Memorial Award is awarded by the IPEC Americas Foundation for outstanding research in the study of excipients or excipient-related technology. It recognizes contributions, e.g., to an understanding of the basic science underlying excipient functionality, excipient safety, or the development of new excipients and rational regulatory standards. This year the award endowed with $10,000 goes to Jean-Christophe Leroux, Professor for Drug Formulation and Delivery at D-CHAB.