The Borys Paton National Prize is the most important state award of Ukraine which is awarded for outstanding research. Recently, a team of researchers has received this award for their work ‘Creation of organic compounds for modern medicine – an important component of security and defense capability of Ukraine’.

In particular, positive feedback from two Nobel laureates in chemistry – Professor Benjamin List (Germany) and Professor Jean-Marie Lehn (France) – is indicative of the high level of this research. The editor of the ‘Science’ journal Dr. Derek Lowe mentioned that the introduction of the Ukrainian product ‘REAL Database’ and the collection of ‘building blocks’ of the Ukrainian company ‘Enamine LTD’ has significantly changed the approaches to the search for new drugs in the global pharmaceutical industry.

One of the researchers on the team is Serhii Kolotilov – Doctor of Chemical Sciences, Acting Deputy Director of L.V. Pisarzhevsky Institute of Physical Chemistry of the NASU, member of the Scientific Council of the NRFU, Chairman of the Scientific Council of the Section of Natural, Technical Sciences and Mathematics of the NRFU. Read about the work its importance for medicine, security and defense capability of the country in the new NRFU Herald.

Herald #6 March 2023