Elena Herrero Gómez, PhD student under the supervision of Profs. Echavarren and Maseras, has been awarded by the pharmaceutical company Lilly with one of the three Research Lilly Awards for PhD students in Organic, Pharmaceutical, and Analytical Chemistry.In its sixth consecutive edition, the Research Lilly Awards – gifted with €1.500 each one – value the PhD students innovative research and give the collaboration between the pharmaceutical industry and the universities a boost. The scientific committee in charge to award the Research Lilly Awards has selected the three best PhD students among forty works received from students all over Spain.

The awards ceremony has taken place at the R&D Lilly Centre headquarters, located in Alcobendas (Madrid, Spain). Elena, together with the other two awarded students (Teresa Martínez del Campo and Gustavo Fernández Huertas, both from Universidad Complutense de Madrid), has performed an oral communication about her thesis entitled Cyclopropanation reactions catalyzed by gold complexes. Later on, the awarded students, and the rest of the invited audience, have attended a lecture by Prof. William R. Roush, from Scripps Research Institute (Florida, USA).

From left to right: José Miguel Mínguez (senior researcher R&D Lilly Centre), Elena Herrero (ICIQ), Ana Mateo (senior researcher R&D Lilly Centre), Gustavo Fernández (UCM), Teresa Martínez (UCM), Prof. William R. Roush (Scripps Research Institute, Florida, USA), Karin Briner (executive director of the Lilly Research Laboratory, LRL) and Jesús Ezquerra (basic research director Lilly).