Past Events
2024 (President: Konrad Tiefenbacher)
Title: „Industrial Biotransformation: from Metabolites to Synthetic Applications“
Title: „Two ways of inhibiting not one, but two enzymes: the IDO(rsia)/TDO story“
SCS Spring Meeting 2024 (supported by the BCG)
«Frontiers in Homogenous Catalysis»
Friday 7. June 2024
Prof. Karl Anker Jørgensen, Aarhus University, Denmark
Title: „Expanding the Borders of Chemical Reactivity“
Prof. Ryan Gilmour, University of Münster, Germany
Title: „Illuminating Stereochemical Challenges via Selective Catalysis: The Swiss Connection“
Green & Sustainable Chemistry Award Winner 2024:
Prof. Rebecca Buller, ZHAW Wädenswil
Title: „Engineering protein catalysts for synthetic applications“
Prof. Syuzanna Harutyunyan, University of Groningen, Netherlands
Title: „Pulsating catalysis made possible by organocatalytic oscillator design“
Prof. Bill Morandi, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Title: „Recent Adventures in Catalysis and Beyond“
Prof. Christina White, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA
Title: „Site-Selective C—H Oxidation for Late-Stage Functionalization“
2023 (President: Sarah Sulzer)
100 Years Basel Chemical Society Symposium
Sustainability in Synthesis
Friday 2. February, 2024, University of Basel, Biozentrum
12:30h
Welcome Dr. Sarah Sulzer (Syngenta Stein)
12:40h
Prof. Andreas Pfaltz (University Basel)
„History of the Basel Chemical Society“
13:00h
Prof. Jeremy Luterbacher (EPF Lausanne)
“Build back better: preserving and building on natural structures to make new biobased chemicals and materials”
13:45h
Prof. Christopher Vanderwal (UC Irvine)
“Total Synthesis of Antimalarial Isocyanoterpene”
15:00h
Prof. Ryan Shenvi (Scripps Institute La Jolla)
“New cross-coupling methods to access natural product space and interrogate its biological properties”
15:45h
Prof. Gonzalo Guillén-Gosálbez (ETH Zürich)
“A sustainable chemical sector within planetary boundaries”
Prof. Dr. Christopher Parker (The Scripps Research Institute, USA)
Thursday, 25. January 2024
Title: „Proteome-wide ligand and target discovery in cells“
Prof. Dr. Nicolas Winssinger (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
Thursday, 07. December 2023
Title: „Using molecular assembly to program responsive systems“
Dr. Thierry Schlama (Novartis Pharma AG, Switzerland)
Thursday, 14. Septemer 2023
Title: „From early phase to full scale manufacturing, An overview of Biocatalysis at Novartis Pharma“
Dr. Ania Fryszkowska (Merck, New York, USA)
Thursday, 14. Septemer 2023
Title: „Out of Thin Air: Enzymatic Aerobic Oxidations for Sustainable Pharmaceutical Manufacturing“
Prof. Dr. Gali Prag (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Thursday, 01. June 2023
Title: „E. coli based-positive selection: a novel discovery engine for molecular glues“
Prof. Dr. Greg Challis (University of Leeds)
Thursday, 11. May 2023
Title: „Biosynthesis of hybrid polyketide-nonribosomal peptide anticancer drugs“
Prof. Dr. Adam S. Nelson (University of Leeds, Leeds, GB)
Thursday, 20. April 2023
Title: „How Best to Explore Chemical Space for Bioactive Molecular Discovery?“
2022 (President: Christof Sparr)
Prof. Dr. Emily Balskus (Harvard University, Cambridge MA, USA)
Thursday, 8. December 2022
Title: „Deciphering the human gut microbiome with chemistry“
Prof. Tobias Gulder (Department of Technical Biochemistry, Technical University of Dresden, Germany)
Thursday, 20. October 2022
Title: „Microbial Biosynthetic Pathways – A Treasure Trove of Novel Biocatalysts and Bioactive Molecules?“
Prof. Kathrin Lang (Department of Chemistry and Applied Bioscience, ETH Zürich, Switzerland)
Thursday, 22. September 2022
Title: „Expanding the genetic code – new chemistries for biology“
Prof. Dr. Stephen L. Buchwald (MIT, Cambridge MA, USA)
Thursday, 16. Juni 2022
Title: „Copper-Catalyzed Hydrofunctionalization Reactions“
Prof. Dr. John Sutherland (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK)
Thursday, 09. Juni 2022
Title: „Origins of the RNA-Protein World – Lost in Translation?“
Prof. Dr. Amir Hoveyda (Boston College, US and University of Strasbourg, France)
Thursday, 19. May 2022
Title: „New Strategies for Framework Editing of Bioactive Molecules“
Prof. Dr. Robin Teufel (Departement of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Basel, Switzerland)
Thursday, 12. May 2022
Title: „Enzymatic Redox Tailoring of Bacterial Aromatic Polyketides and Tropone Natural Products”
2021 (President: Karl Heinz Krawinkler)
Dr. Radka Snajdrova (Novartis Pharma AG, Basel)
Thursday, 25. November 2021
Title: „Developing enzymatic late-stage functionalization toolbox, a joint endeavor between academia and industry“
Prof. Todd Hyster (Cornell University, USA)
Thursday, 25. November 2021
Title: „Photoenzymatic Catalysis – Using Light to Reveal New Enzyme Functions“
Dr. Aurélien Bigot (Syngenta, Stein)
Thursday, 04. November 2021
Title: „Collaborative exploration of peptide modalities for crop protection“
Prof. Dirk Trauner (New York University, USA)
Thursday, 04. November 2021
Title: „Proximity Photopharmacology“
Dr. Benedikt Wanner (Synple Chem, Kemptthal, Switzerland)
Thursday, 07. October 2021
Title: „Synple Chem – from ETH research project to SpinOff company“
Prof. Yimon Aye (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland)
Thursday, 07. October 2021
Title:“Leveraging Precision Reactive Metabolite Signaling Towards Precision Lead Discovery“
Dr. Uwe Grether (F. Hoffmann-LaRoche, Basel)
Thursday, 30. September 2021
Title: „Cross-Fertilization of Industrial Drug Discovery and Academic Research – Examples from the Cannabinoid Receptor Type-2 Program“
Prof. Thomas Magauer (University of Innsbruck, Austria)
Thursday, 30. September 2021
Title: „Natural Product Synthesis: Challenges and Opportunities“
Dr. Claudio Battilocchio (Syngenta, Stein)
Thursday, 02. September 2021
Title: „Flow Chemistry, a chance to bridge industry and academia“
Prof. Tim Noel (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Thursday, 02. September 2021
Title: „Innovation in synthetic methodology through use of flow“
Dr. Laure Bouchez (Ichnos Science, Lausanne)
Thursday, 19. August 2021
Title: „A successful open-framework powering Industry-Academia collaboration“
Prof. Karl A. Scheidt (Northwestern University, Chicago, USA)
Thursday, 19. August 2021
Title: „Precision Synthesis for Therapeutic Discovery“
Dr. Thomas Fessard (SpiroChem)
Thursday, 03. June 2021
Title: „Harnessing the potential of dearomatization in the exploration of novel structural space“
Prof. Vy Maria Dong (University of California Irvine, USA)
Thursday, 03. June 2021
Title: „Choose your own adventures in metal-hydride catalysis“
Dr. Dominic Hoepfner (Novartis Pharma AG, Basel)
Thursday, 27. May 2021
Title: „Target fishing with natural products – Examples from partnerships with academia“
Prof. Ang Li (Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, China)
Thursday, 27. May 2021
Title: „Total synthesis of polycyclic natural products“
Dr. Antonia F. Stepan (F. Hoffmann-LaRoche, Basel)
Thursday, 08. April 2021
Prof. Jin-Quan Yu (The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, USA)
Thursday, 08. April 2021
Title: „Molecular Editing Through Enantioselective and Remote C-H Activation“
2020 (President: Dennis Gillingham)
Prof. Thomas Vilgis
Prof. Michael Hall
Prof. Brian Paegel
Prof. Petra Dittrich
2019 (President: Patrick Schnider)
Prof. Bill Morandi
Prof. Jean-Louis Reymond
Prof. Anne Ulrich
Prof. Jeffrey Bode
Prof. Frank Glorius
Prof. Henning Stahlberg
Mini-symposium: Successful Drug Discovery
Dr. Paul Coleman
Dr. Jens Pohlmann
Dr. Noriyuki Furuichi
2018 (President: Oliver Wenger)
Prof. Dario Bassani
Prof. Phil Casetllano
Prof. David Niciewicz
Prof. Eli Zysman-Cioman
Prof. Kenneth Wärnmarka
2017 (President: Guillaume Berthon)
Dr. Anna Vulpetti
Prof. Veronique Gouverneur
Prof. Bruno Linclau
Dr. Nicholas Meanwell
Dr. John G. Cumming
Prof. Jay Bradner
Prof. Vladimir Grushin
Prof. Shannon Stahl
Prof. Hideki Yorimitsu
2016 (President: Marcel Mayor)
Prof. Olivier Baudoin
Prof. Klaus Müllen
Prof. Ron Naaman
Prof. Takashi Ooi
Prof. Neil Branda
Prof. Mike Krische
Prof. Stefan Bernhard
Prof. Ilan Marek
Prof. Beat Ernst
Prof. Héctor Abruña
Prof. Robert Pascal
2015 (President: Alexander Mayweg)
Dr. Paul Leeson
Dr. John Flygare
Prof. Andy Myers
Prof. Marty Burke
Dr. Troels Koch
Symposium in honour of Prof. Andreas Pfaltz:
Dr. Olivier Loiseleur
Prof. Frank Glorius
Prof. Christoph Fahrni
Prof. Donna Blackmond
Prof. Clément Mazet
2014 (President: Tom Ward)
Pro. Qi-Lin Zhou
Prof. Ivan Huc
Prof. Ben Davis
Prof. Steve Benner
Prof. Richard Schrock
Prof. Bill Degrado
Prof. James Mayer
Symposium in celebration of 100 years of X-Ray:
Prof. Hans-Beat Bürgi
Prof. Makoto Fujita
Dr. Joerg Kallen
Prof. Gerhard Klebe
Prof. Joel Bernstein
2013 (President: Andreas Marzinzik)
Prof. Roman Manetsch
Dr. Markku Hamalainen
Prof. Greg Petsko
Prof. Valery Fokin
Prof. Steve Ley
Prof. Nicolai Cramer
Prof. Herbert Waldmann
Prof. Thomas Kodadek
Prof. Hiroaki Suga
Prof. Troels Skrydstrup
Prof. Stephen L. Buchwald
Symposium on PPI:
Prof. Christian Ottmann
Prof. John Robinson
Prof. Ruth Nussinov
Prof. Tom Grossmann
2012 (President: Markus Meuwly)
Prof. Helmut Schwarz
Prof. Rienk van Grondelle
Prof. Mark A. Johnson
Prof. William L. Jorgensen
Prof. Peter Hamm
Prof. Gregory A. Petsko
Prof. William A. Eaton
Prof. A. Josh Wand
2011 (President: Andrew Plant)
Prof. Darren Dixon
Prof. Dr. Herbert Mayr
Prof. Ryan Gilmour
Prof. Dr. Dirk Trauner
Prof. Jieping Zhu
Prof. Jérome Waser
Prof. David Leigh
Prof. Greg Challis
2010-2009 (President: Helma Wennemers)
Prof. Brian Shoichet
Prof. Dr. Michele Parrinello
Prof. Dr. Oliver Seitz
Prof. Dr. Frank Würthner
Dr. Roman Kaiser
Prof. Dr. Gisela Lück
Symposium in honour of Prof. Bernd Giese:
Prof. Victor Snieckus
Prof. Dennis Curran
Prof. Joanne Stubbe
Prof. Ken Houk
Prof. Maria Michel-Beyerle
2008 (President: Hans-Peter Wessel)
Prof. Amélia P. Rauter
Prof. Francesco Nicotra
Prof. Thisbe Lindhorst
Prof. Dr. Patrick Rollin
PD Dr. Stefanie D. Krämer
Prof. Yves Queneau
Prof. Slawomir Jarosz
Prof. Mario Pinto
Prof. M. Pericas
Prof. D. R. Bundle
2007 (President: Edwin C. Constable)
Prof. Dr. Steven Ley
Prof. Luke Lee
Prof. Arne Skerra
Prof. George Newkome
Prof. Anders Hagfeldt
Prof. Vincenzo Balzani
Prof. Tom Meyer
Prof. Kenneth Seddon
Symposium in celebration of 100 Years BCG:
Prof. Gottfried Schatz
Prof.William Klemperer
Prof. Richard Schrock
2006 (President: Peter Bühlmayer)
Prof. Fraser Stoddart
Prof. Andreas Kirschning
Prof. Virinder S. Parmar
Dres. Thomas Briellmann und Franz Dussy
Dr. Martin Karpf
Dr. Roger Snowden
Prof. Dr. Harry W. Kroto
Prof. Gerd Pluschke
Dr. Daniel Monti
Prof. Dr. Herbert Waldmann
Prof. Dr. Steven Ley
2005 (President: Wolfgang Meier)
Prof. Dr. Joachim Spatz
Prof. Dr. Lia Addadi
Prof. B.H. Lipschutz
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Knoll
Prof. Dr. Omar Yaghi
Prof. Dr. Thomas Vilgis
2004
Prof. Alfredo Ricci
Prof. Tohru Fukuyama,
Prof. Ch. Mioskowski
Prof. M. Malacria
Prof. Dr. Samuel I. Stupp
Dr. Matthew Gaunt
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Knoll
2003
Dr. Marcel Mayor
Prof. Peter Hofmann
Prof. Wolfgang Meier
Prof. Albert Eschenmoser
Prof. Gerhard Erker
Prof. Tom Lectka
Prof. E. N. Jacobsen
Prof. Manfred T. Reetz
Prof. Kim Janda
Prof. A. Ganesan
2002
Prof. Peter Willett
Dr. Matthew J. Genge
Prof. R.P. Evershed
Prof. Varinder Aggarwal
Prof. Mark Lautens
Sir John Meurig Thomas
Prof. Samir Zard,
Prof. Peter Chen
Dr. Frédéric Naud
2001
Prof. K. Wieghardt
Dr. E- Steensma
Prof. Dr. Jean-Marie Lehn
Prof. Dr. Alois Fürstner
Prof. Dr. Harry Kroto
Prof. Dr. Martin Quack
Dr. B. Vonlanthen
Prof.C. Wandrey
Prof. D. Horwell
Prof. D. Arigoni
Prof. D. Hilvert
Prof. L. O’Neill
Prof. P. Fromme
2000
Prof. J. Mulzer
Prof. A. Alexakis
Prof. A. Vasella
Prof. D. A. Evans
Prof. M. Famulok
Prof. Dr. G. Schatz
Prof. Dr. G. Folkers
1999
Prof. Hans Kuhn
Prof. Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
Prof. Fritz-Peter Schäfer
Prof. Steven Chu
Prof. J.K.C. Knowles
Prof. G. Newcome
Prof. W. Lindinger
Prof. M. Bradley
Prof. R. W. Hoffmann