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Amy Fraley dives deep into nature to grasp its complexity – literally as a passionate scuba diver, but also as a chemist in the laboratory. Together with her team, the new Assistant Professor of Medicinal Chemistry roams through all the kingdoms of life in search of new biosynthetic strategies to produce therapeutics. She finds them everywhere: from microbes associated with bat guano and marine sponges to inconspicuous plants.

Julia Reisenbauer  has been honored with the Prix Schläfli Chemistry for her dissertation on "skeletal editing," which she completed at the D-CHAB  of ETH Zurich (Morandi Group). Her work involves the targeted rebuilding of molecules so they can perform specific functions. 

A new computer process developed by researchers led by Gisbert Schneider and Kenneth Atz makes it possible to generate active pharmaceutical ingredients quickly and easily based on a protein’s three-​dimensional surface. The new process could revolutionise drug research.

A new molecular test method developed in the group of Prof. Robert Grass (ICB) helps to prove the authenticity of works of art. The new method could also help to make passwords secure against quantum computers.