CIC Award for Computational Chemistry

On the occasion of the annual meeting of the "Computers in Chemistry" subdivision (www.gdch.de/cic) of the German Chemical Society (GDCh), Dr. Janosch Menke received the CIC Award for Computational Chemistry for his outstanding dissertation. The thesis entitled "Improving Ligand-based Virtual Screening by Utilizing Neural Networks to Generate Domain-specific Molecular Representations" was written in the research group of Prof. Dr. Koch (www.agkoch.de) at the Institute of Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry. Dr. Menke has been working on the application of artificial intelligence methods within computational drug discovery. For this purpose, he has used neuronal networks to develop a new molecular representation that allows faster identification of bioactive molecules.