Dissertation award for Dr. Janosch Menke

At this year's Summa cum Laude ceremony at the University of Münster, Dr. Janosch Menke was awarded the Dissertation Award of the Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy for his outstanding dissertation.  The thesis entitled "Improving Ligand-based Virtual Screening by Utilizing Neural Networks to Generate Domain-specific Molecular Representations" was written in the working group of Prof. Dr. Koch (https://www.uni-muenster.de/Chemie.pz/forschen/ag/koch/index.html) at the Institute of Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry.

Dr. Menke worked on the application of artificial intelligence methods within computer-based drug research. To this end, he has used neural networks to develop a new molecular representation that allows faster identification of bioactive molecules.