GP Ragaï Ibrahim prize

The Ragaï Ibrahim prize is a benevolent gift bestowed by the late Dr. Ragaï Ibrahim, who served as an Emeritus Professor at Concordia University in Montréal, Canada, and was affiliated with our society from 1980 to 2017.
This prize is awarded every two years to an active graduate student or a postdoctoral fellow (who obtained a PhD in less than 5 years) who has co-authored during his/her doctoral studies a particularly relevant original scientific article (full paper or communication) in the broad field of polyphenol research, published in a journal with a good to high impact factor, reflecting his/her researcher qualities.

The applicant must be presented by his/her supervisor who is expected to provide a recommendation letter along with a short CV of the candidate and a copy of the article.

The sixth GP Ragaï Ibrahim prize has been awarded at the occasion of the 31st International Conference on Polyphenols, held in Nantes in July 2023.

Dr. Leonard BLASCHEK has been awarded for the following publication:                                   Leonard Blaschek, Emiko Murozuka, Henrik Serk, Delphine Ménard and Edouard Pesquet. Different combinations of laccase paralogs nonredundantly control the amount and composition of lignin in specific cell types and cell wall layers in Arabidopsis. The Plant Cell, 35, 889–909, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koac344.

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The fifth GP Ragaï Ibrahim prize has been awarded at the occasion of the 30th International Conference on Polyphenols in July 2021.
Dr. Bridget MCGIVERNphoto identité has been awarded for the following publication:
Bridget B. McGivern, Malak M. Tfaily, Mikayla A. Borton, Suzanne M. Kossan, Rebbeca A. Daly, Carrie D. Nicora, Samuel, O. Purvine, Allison R. Wong, Mary S. Lipton, David W. Hoyt, Trent R. Northen, Ann E. Hagerman and Kelly C. Wrighton.                                                                                                                Decrypting bacterial polyphenol metabolism in an anoxic wetland soil. Nature Communications, 12, 2466, 2021. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-22765-1.

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The fourth GP Ragaï Ibrahim prize has been awarded at the occasion of the 29th International Conference on Polyphenols in Madison, USA, in July 2018.
Dr. Antoine RICHIEUphoto identité has beeen awarded for the following publication:
Antoine Richieu, Philippe A. Peixoto, Laurent Pouységu, Denis Deffieux, and Stéphane Quideau.                                                                                               Bioinspired Total Synthesis of (-)-Vescalin: A Nonahydroxytriphenoylated C-Glucosidic Ellagitannin. Angewande Chemie International Edition, 56, 13833-13837, 2017. DOI: 10.1002/anie.201707613.

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The third GP Ragaï Ibrahim prize has been awarded at the occasion of the 28th International Conference on Polyphenols in Vienna, Austria, in July 2016.

Dr. Thibaut BOphoto identitéNTPART has beeen awarded for the following publication:
Thibaut Bontpart, Véronique Cheynier, Agnès Ageorges, and Nancy Terrier. BAHD or SCPL acyltransferase? What a dilemma  for acylation in the world of plant phenolic compounds. New Phytologist,  208, 695-707, 2015.

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The second GP Ragaï Ibrahim prize has been awarded at the occasion of the 27th International Conference on Polyphenols in Nagoya, Japan, in September 2014.
Dr. Tsukasa HIROKANEphoto identité has beeen awarded for the following publication:
Sukasa Hirokane, Yasuaki Hirata, Takayuki Ishimoto, Kentaro Nishii, Hidetoshi Yamada. A unified strategy for the synthesis of highly oxygenated diaryl ethers featured in ellagitannins. Nature Communications, 5, 3478, 2014.

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The first GP Ragaï Ibrahim prize has been awarded to Dr Joana DA SILVA OLIVEIRA at the occasion of the 26th International Conference on Polyphenols in July 2012 in Florence, Italy.

Dr. Joana OLIVEIRAphoto identité has been awarded for the following publication:
Joana Oliveira,Vesselin Petrov, A. Jorge Parola, Fernando Pina, Joana Azevedo, Natercia Teixeira, Natercia F. Bras, Pedro A. Fernandes, Nuno Mateus, Maria Joao Ramos, Victor de Freitas. Chemical behavior of methylpyranomalvidin-3-O-glucoside in aqueous solution studied by NMR and UV-visible spectroscopy. J. Phys. Chem. B, 115, 6, 1538-1545, 2011.

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