The Chemical Structure Association Trust is calling for nominations for the 2025 Mike Lynch Award. The deadline is August 31, 2024.
The CSA Trust is an internationally recognized, registered charity that promotes education, research, and development in fields related to chemical structures and cheminformatics.
The Mike Lynch Award recognizes and encourages outstanding accomplishments in education, research, and development activities that are related to the systems and methods used to store, process, and retrieve information about chemical structures, reactions, and properties. The awardee will receive an honorarium and memento and will be invited to make a presentation at the 13th International Conference on Chemical Structures (ICCS) that is scheduled to take place June 1-5, 2025 in Noordwijkerhout, Netherlands.
To nominate an individual, please submit (a) a summary of the nominee’s accomplishments and the specific relevant work that is to be recognized (maximum one page); (b) a brief biographical sketch, including a statement of academic qualifications and contact information; and (c) at least one seconding letter that supports the nomination and provides additional factual information with regard to the scientific achievements of the nominee. If appropriate, a list of the nominee’s publications and/or patents may also be submitted. The Award will not be given in any year in which the nominees do not meet the award criteria. Work that has not previously been recognized by other awards will usually be given particular consideration.
Please email these documents to the Secretary of the CSA Trust at chescot@aol.com by August 31, 2024.
Nominations will be reviewed by the CSA Trustees, and the awardee will be announced prior to the 13th International Conference on Chemical Structures (ICCS).
Mike Lynch is the Professor Emeritus in the Information School of the University of Sheffield, England, and is an acknowledged cheminformatics pioneer. The Mike Lynch Award was instituted in 2002, and the previous winners listed below received their awards and made presentations at the triennial International Conference on Chemical Structures in Noordwijkerhout:
2022: Greg Landrum: in recognition of his work on the development of RDKit and his fostering of the community around it, a transformative software resource for cheminformatics and machine learning.
2018: Rudy Potenzone: 40+ year career as a provider of in-house informatics services and a creator and implementer of innovative informatics software solutions including SciFinder.
2014: “InChI Team,” Steve Heller, Alan McNaught, Igor Pletnev, Steve Stein, Dmitrii Tchekhovskoi: conception and development of the IUPAC International Chemical Identifier InChI.
2011: Engelbert Zass: lifetime career devoted to education in chemical information with an emphasis on database searching and the role of the intermediary.
2008: Alexander (Sandy) Lawson: major contributions to chemical information handling and structure representation, particularly in the development of the Beilstein database and software.
2005: Johann Gasteiger: outstanding accomplishments in the fields of computational chemistry and structure elucidation.
2002: Peter Willett: pioneering work in maintaining and nurturing an academic centre of excellence in cheminformatics teaching and research with an emphasis on computational techniques for the processing of chemical and biological information.
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