CCL: Congratulations to the winners of the OpenEye Outstanding Junior Faculty Award



OpenEye Scientific Software is pleased to announce and congratulate the winners of the OpenEye Outstanding Junior Faculty Award. Recipients will be presented with their award certificate and $1,000 cash prize during the Fall 2012 ACS COMP division poster session on August 21, 2012 in Philadelphia.

The Outstanding Junior Faculty are:

  • Gregory Beran University of California, Riverside
    Practical prediction of molecular crystal structures and properties from first principles

  • Jerome Delhommelle University of North Dakota
    Unraveling the mechanisms of crystal nucleation and growth at the nanoscale

  • Michael Shirts University of Virginia
    New methods for thermodynamic analysis and sampling of molecular simulations

  • Yaroslava Yingling North Carolina State University
    Tuning DNA structural bending with charged nanoparticles

About the OpenEye Outstanding Junior Faculty Award

The OpenEye Outstanding Junior Faculty Award is designed to recognize the work of and assist rising new faculty members in gaining visibility within the COMP community. The Award is granted semi-annually at the ACS National Meetings.

About OpenEye Scientific Software

OpenEye Scientific Software Inc. is a privately held company headquartered in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with offices in Boston, Massachusetts, Strasbourg, France and Tokyo, Japan. It was founded in 1997 to develop large-scale molecular modeling applications and toolkits. Primarily aimed towards drug discovery and design, areas of application include:

The software is designed for scientific rigor, as well as speed, scalability and platform independence. OpenEye makes most of its technology available as toolkits - programming libraries suitable for custom development. OpenEye software typically is distributable across multiple processors, supports 64-bit processing, and runs on Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. For further information on the company and its products, see www.eyesopen.com

For additional information
Joseph Corkery, M.D.
Vice President, Business Development
+1-505-473-7385 x76
Email: business:_:eyesopen.com