Jin Kyung Kim, a 4th year graduate student in the Sieburth lab, presented a poster titled

"Aziridine Metalation, Silylation and Ring Opening: a General Synthetic Approach to alpha-Aminosilanes and Silanediol-based Protease Inhibitors" at the POCC Day held Thursday, April 19, 2007.

One of 33 posters presented at this event, organized by the Philadelphia Organic Chemists' Club (POCC), her poster won third place.  Five poster presentations representing Temple University were accompanied by posters from the University of Pennsylvania, University of Delaware, Villanova University, Saint Joseph's University, Bryn Mawr College, and the pharmaceutical companies Locus Pharmaceuticals and Johnson & Johnson.

Following the poster session, Dr. Ahmed F. Abdel-Magid (Temple University Ph.D. 1980) of Johnson & Johnson received the POCC Award and presented a lecture "Advances in Chemical Process Research."