Poster Award Winners

The attendees of ICP2017 had the opportunity to view 50 posters in total presented by authors from the Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania), Bulgaria, India, Kyrgyzstan, Norway, Poland, Russia and Switzerland. From those posters, 32 were submitted for the Young Investigator Poster Awards. Winners were selected by the International Poster Award Committee during the conference based on the scientific quality and the presentation of the posters. Following are the winners of the Poster Awards.

1^st Prize

SELECTIVE SIGMA-1 RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST NE-100 POSSESSES PRO-CONVULSIVE ACTIVITY AND INDUCES SEIZURES Edijs VAVERS^*, Liga ZVEJNIECE, Baiba SVALBE, Lasma LAUBERTE, Grigory VEINBERG, Maija DAMBROVA ^*Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Pharmacology, Latvian Institute of Organic Synthesis, Latvia

2^nd Prize

APARECIUM – AN EASY-TO-USE DATA PIPELINE SOFTWARE FOR EXPERIMENTAL DATA TRANSOFRMATIONS, STANDARTIZATION AND EXPORTING Tõnis LAASFELD*, Sergei KOPANCHUK, Ago RINKEN ^*Institute of Chemistry, University of Tartu, Estonia

3^rd Prize

STRUCTURAL STUDIES OF BACTERIA BORRELIA BURGDORFERI PROTEIN BBP28 Jēkabs FRIDMANIS*, Kalvis BRANGULIS, Mārtiņš OTIKOVS, Kristaps JAUDZEMS, Edvards Liepiņš *Department of Physical chemistry, Latvian Institute of Organic Synthesis, Latvia

Promotional Prizes

PHYSICO-CHEMICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF POLYPRENOL-LOADED LIPOSOMES Ilona VANAGA*, Jerzy GUBERNATOR, Uģis Klētnieks, Laila PLAKANE, Līga PLAKANE, Ruta MUCENIECE, Baiba JANSONE SCREENING FOR MITOCHONDRIAL DNA MUTATIONS ASSOCIATED WITH BOTH ANTIBIOTIC-INDUCED AND NON-SYNDROMIC DEAFNESS IN THE ETHNIC LATVIAN POPULATION ^*Faculty of Medicine, University of Latvia; SIA "Silv EXPO", Latvia Viktorija IGUMNOVA*, Lauma VEIDEMANE, Egija ZOLE, Ilva POLE, Anda VĪKSNA, Dace BANDERE, Renāte RANKA ^*Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Riga Stradiņš University, Latvia; Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Latvian Biomedical Research and Study Centre, Latvia

Left to right: Inga Kadish (USA), Dāvids Vardanjans (Latvia, SIA “Armgate” representative), Viktorija Igumnova (Latvia), Ilona Vanaga (Latvia), Jēkabs Fridmanis (Latvia), Tõnis Laasfeld (Estonia), Edijs Vāvers (Latvia).