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Poster Prize Awarded at AsCA

12/22

At the 13th Conference of the Asian Crystallographic Association (December 5-8, Science City, Kolkata, India), the RCSB PDB Poster Prize was awarded to Vitul Jain for Structure of prolyl-tRNA synthetase-halofuginone complex provides basis for development of novel drugs against malaria and toxoplasmosis (Vitul Jain,1 Manickam Yogavel,1 Yoshiteru Oshima,2 Haruhisa Kikuchi,2 Bastien Touquet,3 Mohamed-Ali Hakimi,3 and Amit Sharma;1 (1International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), New Delhi, India; 2Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan; 3Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CRNS) and Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France).

Many thanks to the judges: Ruchi Anand (Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India), Rajesh Ghai (University of New South Wales, Australia), Christopher Squire (University of Auckland, New Zealand), and Michi Suga (Okayama University, Japan); and to Alice Vrielink (University of Western Australia), Chair of the International Program Committee, and Pinak Chakrabarti (Bose Institute), President, AsCA, and Chair Local Organizing Committee.

All 2015 awardees are listed on the RCSB PDB website


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