On Tuesday April 26, 2024, our student Alan Kerstjens succesfully defended his PhD thesis to become Doctor in the Pharmaceutical Sciences. His work was entitled “Computational design of synthesizable molecules by imitating reference chemistry”. This work was build around several of the software packages that Alan wrote, including LEADD, MolPert and MoleculeAutoCorrect. External jurymembers were Greg Landrum (ETH Zurich) and Mazen Ahmad (J&J). Many thanks and congrats to Alan!