The Dream Chemistry Award is a competition like no other – it recognizes young chemists who dream of solving fundamental problems with bold ideas. The competition is organized by the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Physical Chemistry Polish Academy of Sciences.
This year's final will take place on 4–5 December at IOCB Prague and will see five finalists who will present their dream projects.
Program
Monday, 4 December 2023
- 9:00 – 9:10 Opening
- 9:10 – 10:00 Finalist 1 – Aisha Bismillah (University of York): Noncovalent Control of ‘Shapeshifting’ Molecules
- 10:00 – 10:50 Finalist 2 – Moran Frenkel-Pinter (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem): Emergence of Primordial Peptide Replicators
- 11:10 – 12:00 Finalist 3 – Francesca Grisoni (Eindhoven University of Technology): Revolutionizing AI for Molecule Discovery with Artificial Chemical Intuition
- 13:30 – 14:20 Finalist 4 – Barak Hirshberg (Tel Aviv University): A Computational Molecular Sculptor
- 14:20 – 15:10 Finalist 5 – Mark Levin (University of Chicago): Skeletal Editing: Enabling Synthesis that Matches Design
Tuesday, 5 December 2023
- 9:00 – 9:10 Award ceremony
- 9:10 – 10:00 Winner’s talk on their research
- 10:00 – 10:40 Guest Talk 1 – Carl Brozek (University of Oregon; DCA Laureate 2022): Nanocrystals with Internal and External Surfaces
- 11:00 – 11:40 Guest Talk 2 (via Zoom) – Jessica Kramer (University of Utah; DCA Laureate 2017): Synthetic Mucins: From Chemical Routes to Engineered Cells
- 11:40 – 12:20 Guest Talk 3 – Yujia Qing (University of Oxford; DCA Laureate 2019): Nanopore Chemistry and Proteomics