On 17 March, Dr. Marcel Scheepstra, who obtained his PhD in the group of FMS professor Luc Brunsveld at the Eindhoven University of Technology, was awarded with the Nederlandse Farmacochemieprijs 2015-2016. The ceremony took place during the KNCV Sectie Farmacochemie in Utrecht
Marcel got the prize for his thesis: “Molecular modulation of nuclear receptor conformational states” , which he defended in September 2016, and was awarded with €1000, a certificate and a small sculpture.