Together with our sponsor VOELKER & Partner mbB, we had the pleasure of visiting all three of our outstanding award winners. It was a fantastic opportunity to exchange ideas with these talented teams and gain valuable insights into their innovative ideas.

The awardees from the interfaculty Institute of Microbiology and Infection Medicine at the University of Tübingen are tackling the topic of "Biotechnological production of the metal chelator ethylenediamine disuccinate ([S,S]EDDS)".

With "Cerebri - EEG for everyone, everywhere", the team of PD Dr. med. Justus Marquetand and Dr. med. Johannes Lang have developed a location-independent, telemedically available as well as cloud-based EEG evaluation, which can also be successfully used by untrained persons within a few minutes.

"Click chemistry" and "bioorthogonal chemistry" became known beyond a specialist audience when the developers of these technologies received the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. One disadvantage of these technologies, however, is that the necessary "ingredients" are not readily available. Dr. Vasileios Filippou's Varimol team now wants to change that and has developed synthesis protocols for this purpose that enable greater synthetic scalability of click reagents.