Gerard van Westen (Division of Medicinal Chemsitry leiden) was awarded the first prize for the best presentation in the Pharmacochemistry session at the FIGON Dutch Medicines Days, October 3rd-5th this year.

The prize was awarded by the Medicinal Chemistry Section of the Royal Netherlands Chemical Society.  The program consisted of a total of 13 scientists presenting their work. Gerard's oral presentation was entitled: Proteochemometric modeling predicts clinical response to anti-retroviral therapy based on the dominant patient HIV genotype. The prize was awarded by an independent jury of experts.