DED UN 18 O 98 F N Y O T R E I T H C E N O A E S S S L T A E A C R C I N S M S E E H C C TI N O CA October 2008 Vol. LXXXVII, No. 2 N • AMERI Monthly Meeting Henry Hill Award to Dr. Michael Singer Dr. Peter Meltzer to speak at Henderson House 2008 Buyer's Guide NESACS-GDCh German Exchange Program National Chemistry Week Puzzle Contests 2 The Nucleus October 2008 The Northeastern Section of the American Chemical Society, Inc. Contents Office: Marilou Cashman, 23 Cottage St., Natick, MA 01360. 1-800-872-2054 Call for Applications 4 (Voice or FAX) or 508-653-6329. ____________________________________ e-mail: mcash0953(at)aol.com YCC/NESACS-JCF/GDCh Exchange to Germany Any Section business may be conducted via the business office above. Monthly Meeting 5 NESACS Homepage: _______________________________________ http://www.NESACS.org Presentation of the Henry Hill Award, 50-Year Members Honored, Dr. Peter David Cunningham, Webmaster ACS Hotline, Washington, D.C.: Meltzer, Organix, Inc. to speak at Henderson House on "The Establishment and 1-800-227-5558 Evolution of a Small Chemical Business in Massachusetts" Officers 2008 Connections to Chemistry 2008 6 Chair: __________________________ Marietta Schwartz NESACS-GDCh German Exchange Program 7 Chemistry Department, UMASS-Boston __________________ Boston, MA 02125 By Leland Johnson 617-287-6146; marietta.schwartz(at)umb.edu Chair-Elect: Report from NERM 2008 9 Dr. E. Joseph Billo ________________________________ 13 Shattuck Street By Morton Z. 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Simon Annual Nucleus Buyers Guide 16 20 Somerset Rd. ____________________________ Newton, MA 02465; 617-332-5273 Cover: Romysimon(at)mindspring.com October speaker, Dr. Peter Meltzer, President and Co-Founder of Trustees: Organix Inc., Woburn, MA. (Photo courtesy of Dr. Meltzer) Joseph A. Lima, Esther A. H. Hopkins, Deadlines: Michael E. Strem December 2008 Issue: October 13, 2008 Councilors Alternate Councilors January 2009 Issue: November 10, 2008 Term Ends 12/31/2008 Doris I. Lewis Patrick M. Gordon Morton Z. Hoffman Michael P. Filosa Christine Jaworek-Lopes Lawrence Scott Mary Burgess Liming Shao Donald O. Rickter S.B. Rajur Term Ends 12/31/2009 The Nucleus is published monthly, except June and August by the Northeastern Section of the American Catherine Costello Julia H.Miwa Chemical Society, Inc. Forms close for advertising on the 1st of the month of the preceding issue. Text Patricia Mabrouk Alfred Viola Michaeline F. Chen Jerry P. 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The Nucleus October 2008 3 cultural institutions in the Essen-Mül- Call for heim-Düsseldorf area, and will include Corporate Patrons ($2000+) the JCF student chemistry research Abbott Bioresearch Applications conference (Frühjahrssymposium) in Genzyme Essen on Thursday-Saturday, March Lyophilization Service of New England 12-14, which will provide the opportu- Merck YCC/NESACS–JCF/GDCh nity for the participants to engage in National ACS Exchange to Germany extensive networking with German and Novartis March 8–15, 2009 other European students and to take Pfizer part in discussions focused on careers, Schering Corporation The Younger Chemists Committee education, and international opportuni- Sepracor (YCC) of the Northeastern Section and ties. Each student representative from Serono Reproductive Institute the NESACS Education Committee NESACS will be expected to make a Vertex Pharmaceuticals invite applications from undergraduate poster or oral presentation on his/her Wyeth Pharmaceuticals and graduate students of chemistry, research at the Frühjahrssymposium biochemistry, and chemical engineering Patrons ($1000-$1999) and upon return at the Northeast Stu- at colleges and universities within the Astra-Zeneca R&D Boston dent Chemistry Research Conference Section to spend a week in Germany as Broad Institute (NSCRC) on Saturday, April 25. Air the guests of the Jungchemikerforum Creagen Biosciences tickets will be provided by NESACS; (Young Chemists Committee; JCF) of Estate of Wallace Gleekman accommodations in Germany will be the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker Irix Pharmaceuticals covered by GDCh. A working knowl- (German Chemical Society; GDCh). Millennium Pharmaceuticals edge of German, while useful, will not The exchange group will consist of up PCI Synthesis be specifically required; the language to 12 students and a number of faculty of the Frühjahrssymposium and the Shasun USA and industrial representatives. other events will be English. Sirtris Pharmaceuticals The trip to Germany will begin Application forms are available on Strem Chemicals with an overnight flight from Boston the YCC <http://www.nsycc.org> and ZINK Imaging on Saturday, March 7; return to Boston NESACS <http://www.nesacs.org> Ziopharm Oncology, Inc. will be on Sunday, March 15. The websites. The following material must visit will begin with excursions to Donors ($300-$999) be submitted electronically with the industrial, academic, scientific, and Cambridge-Major Laboratories Medicilon Inc Occidental Organix Peptech Corp Royal Society of Chemistry SAPA-NE application form: 1) the abstract of the presentation to be made at the Früh- jahrssymposium and the NSCRC; 2) an essay on the relevance of the exchange to the student’s professional goals; 3) a letter of recommendation from the stu- dent’s research supervisor; 4) approval from the supervisor and the chair of the department of the student’s absence from classes, the research laboratory, and other responsibilities. In addition, finalists will be interviewed by mem- bers of the Organizing Committee. For more information, contact Dr. Michael Strem, Chair of the Organizing Committee, at <[email protected]>. Deadline for electronic receipt of applications: November 5, 2008, at N 5:00 p.m. 4 The Nucleus October 2008 Monthly Meeting Biography Dr. Peter Meltzer is the President and The 890th Meeting of the Northeastern Section of the American Co-founder of Organix Inc. of Woburn, Massachusetts. He is a native of South Chemical Society Africa and received his Bachelor of Henry Hill Award, Presentation and Recognition of 50-year members Science and Ph.D. degrees from the Wednesday, October 15, 2008 University of Witwatersrand in Johan- nesburg, South Africa. Upon comple- Northeastern University – Henderson House tion of his doctoral studies he came to 99 Westcliff Road, Weston, MA 02493 (781-235-8517) the Massachusetts Institute of Technol- 4:30 pm Board Meeting ogy as a Post-Doctoral Fellow. After a year at MIT he spent five years as a 5:30 pm Social Hour group leader and senior chemist at the 6:15 pm Dinner Sheehan Insitute (SISA). In 1983 he 7:15 pm Presentation of 50-Year Members became a Vice-President at H. G. Pars Pharmaceutical Laboratories until he 7:30 pm Award Meeting, Dr Marietta Schwartz, NESACS Chair, Presiding left H.G. Pars to found Organix in Henry A. Hill Award for Outstanding Service to the Northeastern 1986. From 1981-1983 Dr. Meltzer Section to Michael Singer was an Associate Editor of the Nucleus Evening Lecture: Dr Peter Meltzer, President, Organix, Inc., and from 1984-1985 he was Chair of Woburn, MA the Medicinal Chemistry Group of The Establishment and Evolution of a Small Chemical Business in NESACS. He has over 100 publica- Massachusetts tions in the area of organic and medici- nal chemistry and more than twenty N Dinner reservations should be made no later than noon, Wednesday October 8, US patents. 2008. Please call or fax Marilou Cashman at (800) 872-2054 or e-mail at Correction: MCash0953(at)aol.com. 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