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4 unusual facts about Bengt Nordén


Bengt Nordén

He was Chairman of the selection committee for the European Science Foundation’s Young Research Investigator Awards 2003-2006; chemistry editor of the Swedish National Encyclopedia, Chairman of the Chemistry Section of the Swedish Research Council 1996-2000.

He has developed novel DNA-binding ligands, such as bis-intercalating compounds and peptide nucleic acids (PNA), and demonstrated DNA-ligand reorganisations between groove-binding and intercalation binding geometries involving extreme activation energies and recognition due to kinetic (in contrast to thermodynamic) selection.

He is currently Chair of the Nanyang Technological University Research Council (Singapore) and Editor in Chief of The Quarterly reviews of biophysics.

Molecular Frontiers Foundation

The Molecular Frontiers Foundation (MFF) was founded under the auspices of the Nobel Foundation in 2007 by Bengt Nordén, a professor of physical chemistry at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden and the former chair of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry.



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