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Photo Competition 2023: Illuminating Reality - Winners announced!

The Communication Team is delighted to announce the winner and two runners-up of the 2023 Photo Competition.

  • Chemical Symphony: A Vivid Glimpse into the Microcosmos - Exequiel Porta (Durham University, United Kingdom) (Winner)
  • Fifty Shades of Fluorescence - Luce Mattio (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy) (Runner-up)
  • Land and Sky - Luke Damerum (University of Nottingham, United Kingdom) (Runner-up)

Congratulations to all the contestants for their participation! All the pictures will remain available on the EFMC website, and some will be displayed in the future editions of the MedChemBioWatch.

Chemical Symphony: A Vivid Glimpse into the Microcosmos

Fifty Shades of Fluorescence

Land and Sky

Photo Competition 2023: Illuminating Reality - Finalists known!

Hundreds of online voters ranked the 8 finalists of our 2023 Photo Competition "Illuminating Reality".

  • Land and Sky (2)
  • Snow Rainbow (3)
  • Colorful Destiny of Fluorescent Compounds (7)
  • Illuminated Droplets (8)
  • The Connection Between Chemistry and Nature (9)
  • Chemical Symphony: A Vivid Glimpse into the Microcosmos (12)
  • Chemical Space (13) 
  • Fifty Shades of Fluorescence (14)

The selected pictures will be printed and displayed in the EFMC Loungeat the upcoming IX EFMC International Symposium on Advances in Synthetic and Medicinal Chemistry (EFMC-ASMC 2023), scheduled to take place in Zagreb, Croatia on September 3-7, 2023. Attendees will be invited to vote for the best pictures, and the prize winner and two runners-up will be announced during the closing ceremony!

The winner will receive €50! Two runners-up will also be acknowledged and receive 25€ each. 

We want to congratulate the finalists, and thank all our contestants for their contribution! 

The Communication Team is delighted to announce the winner and two runners-up of the 2022 Photo Competition.

  • The world we live in - PharmaChemistry D3 of the Italian Institute of Technology (Italy) (Winner)
  • Chromatissimo - Manuela Jörg (Monash University, Australia) (Runner-up)
  • Smoky Reaction - Souvik Sarkar (Quretech Bio Ab, Sweden) (Runner-up)

Congratulations to all the contestants for their participation! All the pictures will remain available on the EFMC website, and some will be displayed in the future editions of the MedChemBioWatch.  

The world we live in

Chromatissimo

Smoky Reaction

The Communication Team is delighted to announce the winner and two runners-up of the 2021 Photo Competition.

  • Translational science: Medchem to drug development - Mr Souvik Sarkar (Winner)
  • Drops of life; save the green - Mr Sengupta Pallabi (Runner-up)
  • Coral reef in a flask - The PharmaChemistry Team of Italian Institute of Technology (Runner-up)

We are delighted by another successful edition of the competition, which attracted 30 applications and 1250 online votes.

Congratulations to all the contestants for their participation! All the pictures will remain available on the EFMC website, and some will be displayed in the future editions of the MedChemBioWatch.  

Translational Science: Medchem to drug development

Drops of life; save the green

Coral reef in a flask

The Communication Team is proud to announce the winner and runner of its annual Photo Competition, held this year entirely virtually through the EFMC Instagram.

The winner is Cem Yamali (Turkey) and the second place is awarded to Pallabi Sengupta (India).

Congratulations to all the contestants for their participation! All the pictures will remain available on Instagram, and some will be displayed in the future editions of the MedChemWatch.  

Not cat eye! - Cem Yamali

The trapped trajectory of light - Pallabi Sengupta

The Communication Team is delighted to announce the winner and two runners-up of the 2019 Photo Competition "Elements ofLife"

  • Inverted Nature through a Chemist's eye - Mr Souvik Sarkar (Winner)
  • Science loves arts - Mrs Ivica Dilovic (Runner-up)
  • Wherein Life Flourishes - Mr Lan Phuong Vu (Runner-up)

We are delighted by another successful edition of the competition, which attracted 64 applications, 1300 online votes for the first round and around 200 votes at the EFMC-ASMC'19 for the final selection!

Congratulations to all the contestants for their participation! All the pictures will remain available on the EFMC website, and some will be displayed in the future editions of the MedChemWatch.  

Inverted Nature through a Chemist's eye - Souvik Sarkar (Winner)

Science loves arts - Ivica Dilovic (Runner-up)

Wherein Life Flourishes - Lan Phuong Vu (Runner-up)

The Communication Team is happy to announce the winner and two runners-up of the 2018 Photo Competition "Reality of Medicinal Chemistry"!

  • Everyday struggle - Josipa Matic & Andrijana Mescic (Winner)
  • Crystal Skyline - Lisa Barbaro (Runner-up)
  • Paint my work - Susanna Zamolo (Runner-up)

We are thrilled by the success of this first edition of the competition, which gathered more than 78 applications, 1500 online votes during the first round and around 200 votes at the EFMC-ISMC 2018 for the final selection!

Congratulations to all the contestants for their participation! All the pictures will be published in the 2019 edition of the EFMC Yearbook, and will be used on various EFMC communication supports.

Everyday Struggle - Josipa Matic & Andrijana Mescic (Winner)

Crystal Skyline - Lisa Barbaro (Runner-up)

Paint my work - Susanna Zamolo (Runner-up)