Phurpa Wangchuk, an Endeavour Award PhD student in the Centre for Medicinal Chemistry has won the 2012-Young Scientist?s Best Communication Award at the international congress on Bio-Communications: Semiochemicals involving plants (BIOCOM12). The congress was organized by the Phytochemical Society of Europe (PSE) in Cadiz, Spain and presented an intensive program that dedicated two and a half days for plenary presentations, including invited and oral communications with morning and afternoons poster sessions.
This PSE meeting was attended by all the leading senior and young scientists (PhD students) wide across the world who works in the areas of natural products, weed science and the medicinal chemistry. It was a cross-disciplinary program encompassing five key areas on bio-communications that included: Isolation, identification, characterization and chemistry; Genomics, proteomics and metabolomics; Biotechnological implications; Synthesis and preparation of bio-communicators; Biological properties, QSAR studies and applications; and Ecological and evolutionary relevance.
Along with Wangchuk, other two PhD students from United Kingdom and Spain were also awarded the prizes. His seminar entitled, ?Evaluation of Bhutanese medicinal plants for their alkaloids and biological activities? provided insights into some of his PhD works involving the scientific validations and new drug discoveries from the mountain medicinal plants of Bhutan. The biological activity studies of his works focuses on the target diseases including malaria, cancer and microbial infections.
His superior oral presentation, awarded by PSE, has been prepared based on the four scientific papers he and his two supervisors have published in the international Journal of Ethnopharmacology and Natural Product Communications in 2010-2012. He said that the conference provided an opportunity for him to learn, share and develop networks with the best and brightest international groups of natural product research from worldwide nations.
Wangchuk was also the winner of four awards and prizes at various UOW?s Higher Degree Research Student School of Chemistry Conferences and state level, New South Wales?s Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI)-Natural Products Group one-day symposiums in 2010 and 2011. These awards includes:
* Best and meritorious PhD poster award? at the RACI-Natural Product Group one day symposium hosted at Macquarie University, New South Wales in 2010.
*Runner up best oral presentation award? at the RACI-Natural Product Group one day symposium hosted at UOW in 2011.
*Best oral presentation award? at UOW?s School of Chemistry Conference hosted at Fitroy fall in 2010.
* Highly commended PhD talk award UOW?s School of Chemistry Conference hosted at Fitroy fall in 2011.
He is in the third year PhD student at the University of Wollongong, Australia.
Contributed by Choden T
Source: http://www.bhutanobserver.bt/uow-phd-student-wins-phytochemical-society-of-europe-award/
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