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Petra Ménová, a Ph.D. student of the Institute of Chemical Technology Prague working in the group of M. Hocek at the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry ASCR, has won the ACS International Activities Award for the best poster presentation of women presenters <40 years of age at the 44th World Chemistry Congress IUPAC in Istanbul (August 11-16, 2013). The award consists of a certificate and a 2,500 USD travel award to participate at one of the next ACS meetings in the U.S.A. The award was given for her poster entitled Preparation of Modified Oligonucleotides by Nicking Enzyme Amplification Reaction, which reports on a new enzymatic methodology for production of short base-modified oligonucleotides suitable as labeled primers for PCR. The award was presented by Dr. Marinda Li Wu, the president of the American Chemical Society.