The nominating process for the 2020 Protein Society Awards is now closed. Winners will be announced in March 2020, and awards will be presented at our 34th Annual Symposium, 2020 World Conference on Protein Science, held in Sapporo, Japan.
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The Protein Society announces its 2019 Award Recipients. To view the official press release, click here. |
Protein Society AwardsTPS awards recognize excellence across the diverse disciplines that collectively advance our understanding of proteins; their structure, function, design, and application. The Awards honor researchers who have distinguished themselves with significant achievements in protein research and those who have made outstanding contributions in leadership, teaching, and service. TPS members submit nominations, which are awarded by Executive Council, and recipients are honored at the Annual Symposium. |
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Carl Brändén Award
In the tradition of Carl Brändén, pioneer in structural biology, co-author of the seminal text Introduction to Protein Structure, and leader of the world-class synchrotron facility at Grenoble, the Carl Brändén Award, sponsored by Rigaku Corporation, honors an outstanding protein scientist who has also made exceptional contributions in the areas of education and/or service. Specific Requirement: Sustained, high-impact research contributions to the field. Previous Award Winners2018 - Jane and Dave Richardson |
Minoru Kanehisa,
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Christian B. Anfinsen Award |
Anthony Kossiakoff,
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Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Award
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin was a founder of protein crystallography as well as a Nobel laureate. The Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Award, sponsored by Genentech, is granted in recognition of exceptional contributions in protein science which profoundly influence our understanding of biology. Specific Requirement: Profound influence on our understanding of biology. Previous Award Winners
2018 - Susan Marqusee |
Hao Wu, 2019 Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Award Winner(Harvard University)The 2019 recipient is Professor Hao Wu (Harvard University). The selection of Professor Wu was driven by two interconnecting threads: the remarkable achievements she has made in changing how we view the molecular mechanism of signal transduction and recent work from her laboratory that has illuminated inflammasome assembly and the resulting pyroptotic cell death. The signalosome concept that Professor Wu pioneered established the importance of oligomeric, cooperatively assembled protein complexes for immune receptor signaling and by extension, for intracellular signaling more generally. |
Emil Thomas Kaiser Award |
Shahriar Mobashery,
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Hans Neurath Award |
Dave Thirumalai, 2019 Hans Neurath Award Winner(University of Texas at Austin)
In 2019, the Hans Neurath Awardee is Professor Dave Thirumalai (University of Texas at Austin). Professor Thirumalai has been a pioneer in advancing our understanding of biomolecular actions, particularly protein and RNA folding, and the basis for how molecular motors convert energy to motion. Professor Thirumalai, one of the top theorists in delineating the principles of protein and RNA folding, is unique in driving and interpreting experiments, and collaborating with experimentalist colleagues. He was the first to quantify the heterogeneity and bumpiness of protein folding landscapes, through the definition of a glass temperature and its ratio with the folding temperature. |
Stein & Moore Award |
Dame Carol Robinson, 2019 Stein & Moore Award Winner(University of Oxford)The 2019 recipient is Professor Dame Carol Robinson (University of Oxford). Professor Robinson’s research focuses on applications of mass spectrometry to the study of proteins and their interactions. Early in her career she modified instrumentation to transmit folded proteins, molecular chaperones and other dynamic macromolecular assemblies. Subsequently, she has concentrated on membrane protein complexes, their modulation through lipid and drug binding, and their study from native membrane environments. Overall, Professor Robinson’s sustained and focused effort has resulted not only in new insights into protein structure and function but has also established a new field ‐ that of structural biology in the gas phase. |
Protein Science Young Investigator Award |
Gabriel Lander, 2019 Protein Science Young Investigator Award winner(Scripps Research Institute)
The 2019 recipient is Professor Gabriel Lander (Scripps Research Institute). Professor Lander is recognized as one of the most prolific scientists of his generation in developing and applying methods of cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM). to provide groundbreaking structural and mechanistic insights into a variety of complex macromolecular machines. His outstanding body of work as an independent faculty, combined with his unparalleled expertise and enthusiasm for tackling difficult biological questions have propelled him to the forefront of structural biology. |
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