This is being posted to multiple lists, with apologies for duplication. CHEMICAL STRUCTURE ASSOCIATION TRUST 1997 AWARD The Chemical Structure Association Trust is an internationally recognised Trust established to promote education, research or development in the area of systems and methods for the storage, processing and retrieval of information about chemical structures, reactions and compounds. Applications are invited for the 1997 Chemical Structure Association Trust Award. The Trust is offering an Award of two thousand pounds sterling for the best applicant seeking funds for education or research in chemical information. Anyone working in the field of chemical information research can apply and application can be made for funds to attend a relevant conference, for travel (e.g. to collaborate with another research group) or for hardware or software to assist with the research project. The application should include: 1. A statement of academic qualifications. 2. Details of relevant work and a statement of research recently completed by the applicant. 3. The purpose for which the award is required. The clarity and relevance of this statement will be crucial in evaluating the applications. 4. Letters from two academic referees to support the application. The Trust has previously supported the continuation of research studies in biomedical interactions including molecular recognition processes and drug design; a novel combination of reaction indexing and synthesis planning; clustering of chemical structures for property prediction; and investigation of reaction mechanisms. The work of younger scientists in developing countries has also been made possible in conjunction with some of the awards. Recent award winners, and their areas of research, are as follows: - Weifan Zheng, University of North Carolina (QSAR and combinatorial chemistry) - Aniko Simon, University of Leeds (chemical literature data extraction) - Eugene Babaev, Moscow State University (computer-assisted synthesis) - Gareth Jones, University of Sheffield (for presentation of a paper on genetic algorithms at an ACS National Meeting) - Vladimir Kvasnicak, Slovak Technical University (neural networks for prediction of physiochemical properties) - Rainer Herges, University of Erlangen-Nuernberg (reaction databases and quantum chemistry) - Dmitry Lushnikov and Vladimir Shcherbukhin, Zelinski Insitute, Moscow (reaction mechanisms and heterocyclic ring transformations) Applications must be submitted by 31st July 1997, preferably by e-mail, to Professor Michael Lynch at: Michael F Lynch <M.Lynch@sheffield.ac.uk> Any postal applications should be sent to: Professor M.F. Lynch Chairman of CSA Trust Awards Sub-Committee Rural Route #1 Avonport Kings County Nova Scotia B0P 1B0 Canada The Award will be presented this year at the International Chemical Information Meeting in Nimes in October. chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To unsubscribe, send to majordomo@ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa@ic.ac.uk)