Frank Würthner, a professor of chemistry at the University of Würzburg, receives the Izatt-Christensen Award, the highest international honour in the field of supramolecular chemistry.

It was a pleasure to welcome Prof. Dr. J. N. Moorthy (Department of Chemistry, IIT Kanpur, and Director of IISER Thiruvananthapuram) for a one-week visit at JMU Würzburg.

For her pioneering work on catalytic nucleic acids, the Würzburg chemistry professor Claudia Höbartner has been awarded the Albrecht Kossel Prize by the German Chemical Society.