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Medicinal chemistry fellowships awarded The American Chemical Society Division of Medicinal Chemistry has awarded four graduate students its 1996-97 Predoctoral Fellowships in Medicinal Chemistry. Recipients Peter Glunz, Ellen Kick, William Kobertz, and William Sanders will each receive a stipend of $18,000. Glunz is afifth-yearstudent in the department of chemistry at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is studying the synthesis of potential aspartic protease inhibitors that were created by computerized, structure-generating programs. His fellowship is sponsored by Hoechst Marion Roussel. Kick is working on a small-molecule library and structure-based design approach toward the identification of potent protease inhibitors. A fourth-year student in the department of chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, her award is sponsored by Parke-Davis Pharmaceutical Research. Kobertz will receive his fellowship from Abbott Laboratories to study the effect of DNA-damaging agents designed to selectively target cancer cells. He is a fourth-year student in the department of chemistry at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Sanders, whose fellowship is sponsored by Bristol-Myers Squibb, is research-
Hall wins Cooperative Research Award At the spring ACS national meeting in San Francisco, the ACS Division of Polymeric Materials: Science & Engineering will present its 1997 Cooperative Research Award in Polymer Science & Engineering to Henry K. Hall Jr., a University of Arizona, Tucson, chemistry professor. The award, sponsored by Eastman Kodak, consists of $2,000, a plaque, and travel expenses. The award was established in 1992 to recognize significant and sustained cooperative research in polymer science and engineering at the industrial/academic or industrial/national laboratory interfaces. Hall began his career at DuPont Experimental Station, Wilmington, Del., in 1952 as an industrial polymer chemist, and pioneered research on ring-opening polymerizations. In 1969, Hall moved to 50 SEPTEMBER 30, 1996 C&EN
ing protein-carbohydrate interactions. His work includes the synthesis of biologically active ligands for the selectins, a class of carbohydrate-binding proteins involved in leukocyte recruitment from the blood to inflammatory sites. He is a fourth-year student in the chemistry department at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. All awardees also will receive a travel allowance to attend the 1997 fall ACS national meeting in Las Vegas, where they will present the results of their research. (Clockwise from upper left) Kick, Kobertz, Glunz, and Sanders Since 1991, when the division began awarding the fellowships, 24 predoctor- Awardees must be engaged in medicial students have received the award. Re- nal chemistry research in a medicinal cipients are selected based on the type chemistry, pharmaceutical chemistry, of project, their quality of research and biochemistry, or chemistry department level of research accomplishment, and listed in the ACS Directory of Graduate their academic record and potential. Research. ^ the University of Arizona, where his research has focused on polymer synthesis. His many contributions to polymer science were cited when he received the 1996 ACS Award in Polymer Chemistry. Hall's experience as an industrial researcher, coupled with his knowledge of organic polymer synthesis, have made him a valuable consultant for the polymer industry. The list of Hall's industrial collaborations is marked by joint publications and patents with industrial researchers at 10 different companies. Hall received a B.S. degree in chemistry from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn in 1944; an M.S. degree in chemistry from Pennsylvania State University, University Park, in 1946; and a Ph.D. degree in chemistry from the University of Illinois in 1949. His industrial collaborations include work on high-temperature acidolysis at Hoechst Celanese and nonlinear polymers at Eastman Kodak.
