POCC Awards
POCC Symposium
On alternate years (even), an all-day symposium is organized in the fall which consists of four seminars given by invited speakers and a dinner. The final speaker of the evening is the receipient of that years' Philadelphia Organic Chemists' Club Award in recognition of outstanding contributions to organic chemistry and service to the scientific community which is given to a member of the academic community.Allan R. Day Award
An award in memory of Allan R. Day is given once a year in recognition of outstanding contributions to organic chemistry and the awardee presents a seminar on one of the POCC lecture nights.
The Allan R. Day Awardees
1983 Barry M. Trost (Stanford University)
1984 David A. Evans (Harvard University)
1985 Barry Sharpless (Scripps Research Institute)
1986 Edward M. Arnett (Duke University)
1987 Albert I. Meyers (Colorado State University)
1988 Carl R. Johnson (Wayne State University)
1989 Clayton H. Heathcock (University of California, Berkeley)
1990 Ronald C. D. Breslow (Columbia University)
1991 Yoshito Kishi (Harvard University)
1992 William R. Roush (Indiana University)
1993 K. C. Nicolaou (Scripps Research Institute)
1994 Gilbert Stork (Columbia University)
1995 Dieter D. Seebach (ETH-Zentrum)
1996 Ei-Ichi Negishi (Purdue University)
1997 Samuel J. Danishefsky (Columbia University)
1998 Jean-Marie Lehn (Université Louis Pasteur de Strasbourg)
POCC Award
On alternate years (odd), an event is organized in the spring which includes an afternoon poster session with presenters from local universities and chemical companies. The day is capped off with a dinner followed by a seminar by the receipient of that years' Philadelphia Organic Chemists' Club Award in recognition of outstanding contributions to organic chemistry and service to the scientific community which is given to a member of the industrial community.
The Philadelphia Organic Chemists' Club Awardees
1990 Amos B. Smith, III (University of Pennsylvania)
1993 Conrad J. Kowalski (SmithKline Beecham)
1994 Madeleine M. Joullié (University of Pennsylvania)
1995 Bruce Maryanoff (RW Johnson Pharmaceuticals)
1996 Ralph F. Hirschmann (University of Pennsylvania)
1997 William Nugent (DuPont)
1998 Gilbert Stork (Columbia University)
2000 Frank Mallory (Bryn Mawr College)
2002 Franklin A. Davis (Temple University)
2006 Jeffery Winkler(University of Pennsylvania)
2007 Ahmed Abdel-Magid (Johnson & Johnson PRD)
2008 Scott McN. Sieburth (Temple University)
2009 Christopher Dinsmore (Merck Research Laboratories)
July 2008