Danny Geerdink awarded the Backer Prize for the best PhD thesis in Organic Chemistry in The Netherlands 2013

At the Wageningen symposium of the KNCV, it was announced that Dr. Danny Geerdink, (Prof. Dr. Adri Minnaard and Dr. Anna Hirsch, Bio-organic Chemistry) has been awarded the Backer Prize for the best PhD thesis in Organic Chemistry in The Netherlands 2013. His thesis is entitled: Total synthesis of enantiopure lipids : on mycobacterial glycolipids and a putative sex pheromone of Trichogramma turkestanica

Danny Geerdink will give a lecture at the NWO CHAINS meeting in November.