The Protein Society recognizes six scientists with its 2026 awards, honoring their groundbreaking research and impact on protein science. The winners include Professor Paula Booth, Neil Osheroff, Andreas Martin, Stephen Fesik, Peng Chen, and G. Marius Clore.
The Protein Society recognizes five award winners in 2025 for their groundbreaking research in protein science and technology. Professor Jan Steyaert receives the Christian B. Anfinsen Award for pioneering nanobody technology, while Dr. Brian Kuhlman wins the Emil Thomas Kaiser Award for novel protein design and structural modeling.
Jessica Lusty Beech wins award for understanding plastic-degrading Rieske iron oxidoreductase system, while Matteo Cagiada predicts absolute protein folding stability using generative models. The Protein Society recognizes their contributions to protein science.
This year's winners include Professor Neil Kelleher, Dr. Tamir Gonen, Professor Margaret Sunde, and more, recognized for their pioneering research in top-down proteomics, membrane proteins, amyloid studies, and human health applications.
Chelsea Vickers' paper analyzed the 'enzymatic dark matter' in enzymology, revealing a limited number of biochemically characterized enzymes from certain species and phyla. Ryan Woloschuk's paper designed a photoswitchable binding protein using the Z domain, showcasing its potential applications.
The Protein Society has announced its 2022 award winners, who have made significant contributions to protein science. Professor David Goodsell and Professor Jin Zhang received the Carl Brändén Award and Christian B. Anfinsen Award respectively for their groundbreaking work in education and technological achievement.
This year's award recipients demonstrate substantial and lasting impact on protein science, with notable achievements in education, technological advancement, and structural biology. Professor Sheila Jaswal and Petra Fromme are recognized for their exceptional contributions to protein research and education.
Yu-Ting Huang's unexpected finding that ATP can alter human protein folding through destabilization may be relevant in studying cancer cells. Samuel Junod and Joseph Kelich were recognized for their studies of intrinsically disordered proteins' transport routes through nuclear pore complexes.
The Protein Society appoints John Kuriyan as Editor-in-Chief of Protein Science, building on his extensive contributions to understanding protein regulation and mechanisms. With expertise in structural analysis, computer simulations, and biochemical analyses, Kuriyan aims to unify protein-centered science and advance the field.
The Protein Society announced its 2020 award recipients, recognizing leaders and innovators in protein science. Professor Karen Fleming received the Carl Brändén Award for her pioneering work on membrane protein folding, while Professor Stephen Sligar was honored with the Christian B. Anfinsen Award for his development of nanodiscs.
The Protein Society has launched DiversifyProteinScience, a web portal aiming to improve exposure for traditionally underrepresented groups in protein science. Users can upload demographic and professional data to find diverse protein scientists.
Yu-ming Huang and Abhay Thakur have been awarded the Protein Science Best Paper Award for their pioneering work on biomolecular diffusion and protein folding. Their research has shed new light on the importance of diffusional channeling in metabolism, signaling, and other cellular processes.
This year's awards recognize Professor Minoru Kanehisa for his work on the KEGG database, Professor Anthony Kossiakoff for his technological achievements in protein structure and function, Professor Hao Wu for her groundbreaking signal transduction research, Professor Shahriar Mobashery for his discovery of new antibiotics, and Profess...
The Protein Society has awarded three researchers with prestigious prizes: Jane and Dave Richardson, Yifan Cheng, and Susan Marqusee. The winners have made groundbreaking contributions in protein structure determination, cryo-EM, and protein folding. Their work has significantly advanced our understanding of biology.
The Protein Society has awarded Minfei Su and Chang-Ting Lin the 'Best Paper' award for their research on autophagy, a critical process in eukaryotic cells. The winners' work investigates the structural and thermodynamic details of protein interactions, shedding light on cellular homeostasis and evolution.
Charlotte Miton and Zach Schaefer have won the Protein Society's Year 2016 Best Paper award for their research on mutational epistasis and protein structure. Their study reveals that epistasis plays a major role in constraining evolutionary trajectories, with half of fixed mutations becoming positive at later rounds of evolution.
The 2017 winners of the Protein Society Awards include Dr. Billy Hudson, Dr. Lewis Kay, Dr. Juli Feigon, and others who were recognized for their groundbreaking research in protein science.
Tracy Clinton and Michael Thompson received the Protein Society's Year 2015 'Best Paper' awards for their work on Ebola drug target mimics. The researchers, who came from diverse backgrounds, were chosen for their innovative approaches to solving complex protein problems.
The 2016 Protein Society Awards recognized Dr. Gary Pielak, Dr. Rachel Klevit, Dr. H. Eric Xu, and Dr. Andreas Plückthun for their groundbreaking contributions to protein science. The winners received prestigious awards sponsored by Rigaku Corporation, Genentech, The Neurath Foundation, and The Protein Society.
Eight young protein scientists have been selected for the inaugural Hans Neurath Outstanding Promise Travel Awards, sponsored by the Hans Neurath Foundation. The winners will present their research at the 29th Annual Symposium of the Protein Society in Barcelona, Spain, and receive $1,500 in travel award funds and other recognition.
This year's winners are Dr. C. Robert Matthews, Dr. Eva Nogales, Dr. Marina Rodnina, Dr. Sachdev Sidhu, and Dr. Anna Mapp. They were honored for their groundbreaking research in protein folding mechanisms, structural biology, protein synthesis, engineering, and chemical biology.
The Protein Society recognizes Chih-Chia Su and Minttu Virkki as the 2015 Best Paper Award winners for their research on Campylobacter jejuni CmeC outer membrane channel and aquaporin 1 folding, respectively. The award honors exemplary work of first authors and supports the next generation of protein scientists.
This year's awards recognize Dr. Stephen H. White for membrane protein folding research, Dr. Judith Frydman for eukaryotic cell protein folding mechanisms, and others for their groundbreaking contributions to the field.