2025 Arbuzov Prize for Young Scientists goes to KFU employee

The ceremony took place at Kazan Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

The participants were greeted by Director of the Institute of Chemistry of KFU Marat Ziganshin, Head of the Institute of Organic and Physical Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences Andrey Karasik, Chairman of the Tatarstan Branch of the Russian Chemical Society Vladimir Mironov, and Associate Professor of the Department of Organic and Medical Chemistry of KFU, Arbuzov Prize’s Secretary of the Expert Commission Lyudmila Yakimova.

This time, the first place went to Associate Professor of the Department of Organic and Medical Chemistry Dmitry Shurpik.

“I am pleasantly surprised, because the intrigue was alive until the end of the year. When they called out my name, I was a bit flabbergasted. There were many worthy contenders, including doctors of sciences. I have mixed emotions, with pleasure and unexpectedness. I am thankful to our management, the organizers of the Arbuzov Prize, those who deemed my work worthy of this honorary title,” commented the winner.

He then presented his report Pillar[n]arenes as universal supramolecular blocks for obtaining materials for biomedical applications.

“We create materials from organic molecules called macrocycles. They are innovative and have very few analogues in the world. For instance, we know that salamanders and lizards can grow back their tails after losing them. This is called regeneration. We try to study such systems in laboratory conditions, meaning that we try to create regenerating materials or materials susceptible to external conditions, such as temperature, pressure, humidity,, or pH conditions. And then something happens under such conditions, for instance, regeneration, dissolution, or release of a medication that is inside, or, vice versa, capture of a compound from the outside environment as a result of external changes,” explained Dr Shurpik.