About the Award

The winner of the RSC Centenary Lectureship, Professor John Katzenellenbogen from the University of Illinois at Urbana, U.S.A will be delivering a lecture at a number of locations throughout the UK in December 2009.

He won the award for his creative combination of organic synthesis with biochemistry, molecular & structural biology, and spectroscopic methods to address major problems in biology and medicinal chemistry

Professor Katzenellenbogen's has offered the Universities a choice of lecture titles, each institution will choose from:

• Estrogens and Estrogen Receptors: Structure, Function, Ligand Discovery and In Vivo Imaging
• Estrogens and Estrogen Receptors: Design, Discovery and Expedited Synthesis of Ligands of Unusual Structure and Activity
• Nuclear Hormone Receptors: Positron Emission Tomographic Imaging of Estrogen and Androgen Receptors and Receptor Function in Breast and Prostate Cancer

For more details on the lectures and to see which title has been selected by each of the venues, please use the links on this page.