Last week, Gilles received the GRAMMATICAKIS-NEUMAN prize from the French Academy of Sciences. This prize, awarded every two years in organic chemistry, rewards Gilles Guichard for "his exceptional contribution to the chemistry and physico-chemistry of foldamers and more particularly for the discovery of water-soluble oligoureas...

Prof. James Nowick, Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Irvine and currently Chair of the Department of Chemistry, will stay in Bordeaux from September 5 to 23 as a Visiting Professor at the University of Bordeaux in the context of  the cluster of excellence on Advanced MAterials...