At the National Institutes of Health

Drs. Dirk Reith and Karl Kirschner visited the groups of Drs. Bernhard Brooks and Richard Pastor at the National Institute of Health (NIH) in Washington, D.C. on March 20th and 21st. Over the last three months, H-BRS's graduate student Andreas Krämer has been conducting computational chemistry research at NIH, and has subsequently been offered the choice between two postdoctoral positions. This opportunity arose from a conversation between Kirschner and Dr. Frank Pickard that occurred at an American Chemical Society meeting last year in San Diego. Pickard, who is helping to supervise Krämer's research within Brooks' group, is a former student of Kirschner (Hamilton College, USA) and together have previously coauthored three publications that investigates molecular behavior using quantum mechanics calculations.