DFMT I.C. student Henrique Jose Correia Zanoli received an Honorable Mention Award in the 20º International Scientific Initiation Symposium of USP. The awarded study “Structural and electronic analysis of amino acids by semi-empirical quantum computational methods” was supervised by Profa. Helena M. Petrilli in the NANOMOL group and supported by FAPESP I.C. scholarship.
The research developed a careful and systematic application of a theoretical approach to the investigation of biomolecules, in collaboration with Profa. Vera Constantino from IQ-USP within a FAPESP thematic project 2011/50318-1. Also, FAPESP scholar Ph.D. candidate Filipe C. D. A. Lima contributed to this study in the NANOMOL group.
The award ceremony will be on Dezember 12 at 14:00 h in the Faculdade de Economia, Administração e Contabilidade - FEA USP, room FEA 5, Av. Prof. Luciano Gualberto, 908, Butantã - São Paulo, 05508-010.
