The first Award will be given in September 2009. The winner will receive a cheque of €2000 and will be announced and listed in Journal of Peptide Science online and in print.

Like its predecessors, the 6th Hellenic Forum on Bioactive Peptides was an unrivalled opportunity for researchers to discuss both new and established collaborative work concerning bioactive peptides...

A review entitled "The role of peptides in blood-brain barrier nanotechnology" by Meritxell Teixidó and Ernest Giralt provides a taster of this issue.