In June 2022, The Finnish Society for Synthetic Chemistry and Finnish NMR Society organized collaboratively the first joint meeting under the title Chemical Scienes in Biological Challenges. The meeting combined different fields of science e.g. syntehtic chemistry, NM, medicinal chemistry, pharmacology, medical imaging, environmetnal sciences, microplastics and so on.

A three-day conference gatheredover 120 chemistry enthusiastics across the Europe and the USA. The conference was held in Kuopio, Middle Eastern Finland from 15th to 17th of June. During the days, there were 54 multidisciplinary oral presentations from topics which ranged from drug discovery and protein structure determination to micro plastics, organic synthesis and applications of nuclear magneto-optics. Keynote lectures showcased topics such as amino phosphonates in drug design (Prof. Paweł Kafarski), RNA dynamics studies by NMR (Assoc Prof Katja Petzold) and plastics that move, make decisions and ”learn” (Prof. Arri Priimägi). In poster presentations, researchers presented their recent studies from which the conference participants selected three best to be awarded with the best poster award: MSc Carita Sallomy for her poster on attenuation of TRPA1  ion channel, MSc Iris Sokka for her poster on molecular docking of GLUT1 targeting boron carriers for BNCT, and  PhD Harri Heikkinen for his poster on ligand based NMR study of butyrylcholinesterase inhibitors. Even though the stormy weather prevented a cruise at Lake Kallavesi, the participants certainly enjoyed evenings with social program at the spectacular lake scenery: get-together with traditional Finnish food and smoke sauna as well as the conference dinner in an old wooden Casino Peräniemi.  

Web page of the conference will soon be found here.