Introduction
In 1988, the KNCV Section Farmacochemie established a biannual award to be granted to the most outstanding doctoral dissertation in medicinal chemistry by a PhD student at a Dutch university. The first five prizes, the so-called MFR Medicinal Chemistry Prizes, were sponsored by Medisch Farmaceutische Research (MFR), a Dutch foundation that was part of Nefarma. In 1998, sponsorship was taken over by Stichting Farmacochemische Congressen. The prize was sponsored by Mercachem (2010-2017) and MercachemSyncom (2018-2020), and since 2020 is sponsored by Symeres. As of 2020, the Section Farmacochemie broadened her scope by changing her name to KNCV Medicinal Chemistry & Chemical Biology (MCCB). Accordingly, the biannual award is granted to the best doctoral dissertation in medicinal chemistry or chemical biology by a PhD student at a Dutch university.
Call for nominations will be in the fall of even calendar years.
