Estudiantes de ESO y Bachillerato se reúnen con Premio Nobel de Química 2022 Morten Meldal en Logroño
The students of ESO and high school from various educational centers in La Rioja participated this morning in a meeting with the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022, Morten Meldal, visiting Logroño as part of the Science and Technology Program in Rioja, organized by the Caja Foundation and the ministry. Morten Meldal spoke with the students from Labor, Ies Sagasta, Salesianos School, the company of the School of María, and the Sagrado Corazón de Arno, as well as chemistry degree students, about his scientific breakthrough of «Chemistry and chemical of bancidity,» called «, which served to be the Nobel Chimie».
The event, held at the Caja Rioja Gran Vina Foundation Center, was attended by several authorities, including the President of Rioja, Gonzalo Capellán; President of the Caja Rioja Foundation, Pablo Arieta; Vice Chancellor for Scientific Policy at the University of La Rioja, Eduardo Fonseca; Minister of Culture, Tourism, Sports, and Youth, José Luis Péz Pastor; and the manager of the Caja Rioja Foundation, Carlos Fuentes.
The meeting also featured the commissioner of scientific dissemination and diffusion, Eduardo Sáenz de Cabesón, a professor at the University of La Rioja, who managed to translate this meeting with Professor Isabel Calaza.
There were surprises in store, as Morten Meldal dared to play an electric guitar in front of an audience already devoted to science and then music. The Nobel laureate explained that he produces his own electric guitars (although for the dissemination «gig» he was loaned one by the chemistry professor at the University of La Rioja, Fayna María García Martín). Nobel encouraged students to study with enthusiasm. They also displayed the medal given to all winners.
The Caja Rioja Foundation, the University of La Rioja, and the Royal Spanish Society of Chemistry collaborate in activities.
Morten Meldal (Copenhagen, 1954) is a chemist and professor at the Department of Chemistry at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022, along with Barry Sharpless and Carolyn Bartzzi, for the innovative development of «Click Chemistry and Bioregional Chemistry».
Click chemistry involves joining effective, fast, specific, and selective molecules to give rise to the most complex. The term «clicks» refers to the sound we hear when connecting two parts of a belt around a suitcase or joining two LEGO blocks. There are two pieces that fit perfectly. It doesn’t matter what we have on both sides of the belt, as long as they have the right end, they can join perfectly.
One of the major achievements of click chemistry was its application beyond organic synthesis laboratories. Its development has allowed chemical reactions to be carried out in living organisms through an approach known as bioregional chemistry, without interfering with natural cell processes.
As a result, it became possible to design reactions in cells that facilitate everything from marker coupling to monitoring metabolic processes to administering medications for disease treatment. With click chemistry, Precision Medicine has taken a leap forward.
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