Róża Okoń from the College of Interdepartmental Individual Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the University of Warsaw (UW) was awarded the Gold Medal of Chemistry 2023, in a competition organised by the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw and the DuPont company.

In her paper ‘Comparative assessment of the photochemistry of N7- and N9-adenosine’, Róża Okoń investigated the photostability of adenosine, which is one of the building blocks of DNA, and its non-biological isomer. 

The Silver Medal of Chemistry was won by Karolina Wrochna from the Faculty of Chemistry at the Warsaw University of Technology. The Bronze Medal of Chemistry was awarded to Łukasz Jakubski from the Faculty of Chemistry at the Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice.

The competition for the Gold Medal of Chemistry is aimed at authors of innovative undergraduate or engineering theses of cognitive or applied interest, covering chemistry or its interface with biology and physics.