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German Chemical Biology Lectureship for Jeannine Hess

Jeannine Hess, Senior Lecturer at the Chemistry Department of King’s College, London, and Group Leader at the Biological Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory of Francis Crick Institute, receives the German Chemical Biology Lectureship 2026. She is honoured for developing transformative approaches at the intersection of (inorganic) chemical biology and drug discovery.

Her work applies structure-guided design to develop metal complexes as precise chemical probes, while exploiting their intrinsic chemical properties to create functional tools for interrogating pathogens.

The award lecture will be given during the Advances in Chemical Biology conference in Frankfurt (26 -27 January 2027). Afterwards, the award winner will give a scientific lecture on her research work at other locations in Germany.

The German Chemical Biology Lectureship is awarded every two years to young scientists who work in other EU countries or associated countries, who have not yet reached the age of 40 and who stimulate chemical biology through particularly creative or interesting research approaches. The Gesellschaft für Chemische Technik und Biotechnologie e.V. (DECHEMA), the Deutsche Pharmazeutische Gesellschaft e.V. (DPhG), the Gesellschaft für Biochemie und Molekularbiologie e.V. (GBM) and the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker e.V. (GDCh) are co-financing the award money of EUR 2000. The selection is made by the board of the joint Chemical Biology Division of the four societies

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