CINF Scholarship for Scientific Excellence

PurposeThe scholarship program of the Division of Chemical Information (CINF) of the American Chemical Society (ACS) is designed to reward graduate and postdoctoral students in chemical information and related sciences for scientific excellence and to foster their involvement in CINF.
bulletAwards presented during the Fall ACS Nat'l Meeting are funded by FIZ CHEMIE Berlin.
bulletAwards presented during the Spring ACS Nat'l Meeting are funded by Elsevier MDL.
ScopeScholarships valued at $1,000 each will be given out at the ACS National Meetings.
Eligibility & ApplicationApplicants must:
bulletbe enrolled at a certified college or university. 
bulletpresent a poster during the Sci-Mix session at the National Meeting.  Abstracts for the poster must be submitted electronically through OASYS (http://oasys.acs.org/oasys.htm) according to ACS rules approximately 3 months in advance of the meeting in question.
bulletsend in electronic form a 2,000-word long abstract describing the work to be presented:
bulletsubmitted to :

Guenter Grethe, CINF Awards Committee Chair

  
bulletdue by mid-June for presentation at the Fall Conference of that year.
bulletdue by mid-January for presentation at the Spring Conference of the upcoming year.
 

Any questions related to applying for one of the scholarships should also be directed to Guenter Grethe.

  
SelectionWinners will be chosen based on contents, presentation, and relevance of the poster and they will be announced at the meeting. The contents shall reflect upon the student’s work and describe research in the field of cheminformatics and related sciences. Winning posters will be marked:
bulletFall: “Winner of the CINF-FIZ Chemie Berlin Academic Scientific Excellence” at the poster session.
bulletSpring: “Winner of Elsevier MDL-CINF Scholarship for Scientific Excellence”

Recipients

ACS Nat'l Recipient Affiliation Poster 

235
Spring, 2008

 Jenny Wan-Chen Chen University of Sheffield
 
 "Bias Data Fusion with Turbo Search to Improve Chemical Similarity Searching" 

235
Spring, 2008

 Zunnan Huang University of Missouri
 
 "Conformational Selection of Protein Kinase A Revealed by Flexible-Ligand Flexible-Protein Docking" 

235
Spring, 2008

 Hina Patel University of Sheffield
 
 "Structure Generation using Reaction Vectors" 

234
Fall, 2007

 Thuan Thi Hoang Huynh Buu University of Applied Science
4232 Hagenberg
 "A scoring function to rank pharmacophoric alignments and its application to H-1 antagonists" 

234
Fall, 2007

 Dazhi Jiao Indiana University at Bloomington
School of Informatics
 "Using a chatbot to access chemical information" 

234
Fall, 2007

 Raghava Chaitanya Kasara Clarkson University
Chemistry Department
 "Pharmacodynamic modeling of C2 symmetric HIV-1 protease inhibitors" 

233
Spring, 2007

 Barun Bhhatarai Clarkson University
Department of Chemistry
 "A novel cheminformatics study of non-peptidic HIV proteaseinhibitors using machine learning and statistical tools" 

233
Spring, 2007

 Xiao Dong Indiana University
School of Informatics
 "Developing Semantic Web Service for Chemical Informatics" 

233
Spring, 2007

 Raghava Chaitanya Kasara Clarkson University
Department of Chemistry
 "Pharmacokinetic Modeling of Anti-HIV Protease Ritonavir Analogues”" 

233
Spring, 2007

 Sebastian Rohrer Technical University of Braunschweig
Institute of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
 "Understanding the effect of benchmark dataset composition on the validation and optimization of ligand based virtual screening using self-organizing maps" 

233
Spring, 2007

 Huijun Wang Indiana University
School of Informatics
 "Data Mining of NIH DTP Human Tumor Cell Line Screen Data for Anticancer Drug Discovery" 

232
Fall, 2006

 Maciej Hanrańczyk University of Gdańsk
Department of Chemistry
 "Quantum Mechanical Energy-Based Screening of Combinatorially Generated Library of Tautomers" 

232
Fall, 2006

 Sally Mardikian University of Sheffield
Department of Information Studies
 "Studying the Effects of Individual Interaction Energies in a Variety of Protein-Ligand Complexes" 

232
Fall, 2006

 Robert S. Paton Unilever Centre for Molecular Science Informatics
Department of Chemistry
 "Understanding Stereochemistry: Molecular Modeling to Inform Organic Synthesis"