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CINF Scholarship for Scientific Excellence

Purpose

The 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.

	Awards presented during the Fall ACS Nat'l Meeting are funded by FIZ CHEMIE Berlin.
	Awards presented during the Spring ACS Nat'l Meeting are funded by Symyx Technologies, Inc.

Scope

Scholarships valued at $1,000 each will be given out at the ACS National Meetings.

Eligibility & Application

Applicants must:

be enrolled at a certified college or university.

present a poster during the CINF Welcoming Reception and 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.

send in electronic form a 2,000-word long abstract describing the work to be presented:

submitted to :

Phil J. McHale, CINF Awards Committee Chair

due by mid-June for presentation at the Fall Conference of that year.

due 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 Phil J. McHale.

Selection

Winners 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. t the Sci-Mix session, winning posters will be marked:

	Fall: “Winner of the CINF-FIZ Chemie Berlin Scholarship Award for Scientific Excellence” at the poster session.
	Spring: “Winner of CINF-Symyx Scholarship Award for Scientific Excellence”

Recipients

ACS Nat'l	Recipient	Affiliation	Poster
236 Fall, 2008	Jonathan H Chen	University of California Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics School of Information and Computer Sciences	"Reaction mechanism prediction by transformation rules and general principles"
236 Fall, 2008	Gene M Ko	San Diego State University Computational Science Research Center	"Cheminformatics analysis of HIV-1 protease mutations"
236 Fall, 2008	Sara E Nichols	Yale University Interdepartmental Program in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics	"Hierarchical screening with multiple receptor structures to target the nonnucleoside binding site of HIV-1 reverse transcriptase"
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"