2024 Chemistry Biology Interface open Prize: Khorana Prize Winner
Professor Peter Seeberger, Max-Planck Institute for Colloids and Interfaces
Awarded the development of automated glycan assembly as a basis for molecular glycobiology and synthetic carbohydrate vaccines.
Peter H Seeberger was a tenured professor at MIT and ETH Zurich before becoming director at the Max-Planck Institute in Potsdam in 2009. Since 2021, has been Vice President of the German Research Foundation (DFG) and, since 2023, Founding Director of the Center for the Transformation of Chemistry (CTC), which received initial funding of €1.25 billion.
| Year | Name | Institution | Citation |
| 2023 | Professor Tom Brown | University of Oxford | Awarded for major contributions in the nucleic acid field, including the synthesis of biocompatible artificial DNA, and molecular tools for genetic analysis and diagnostics. |
| 2022 | Professor Ronald Raines FRSC | Massachussetts Institute of Technology | Awarded for translating fundamental chemical understanding of collagen into the life sciences and towards the clinic. |
| 2021 | Dr G. Marius Clore | National Institutes of Health | Awarded for the development of NMR-based methods to characterize protein assembly, aggregation and amyloidosis. |
| 2020 | Professor Bonnie Ann Wallace | Birkbeck, University of London | Awarded for the pioneering development of biophysical methods and bioinformatics tools to enable the characterisation of ion channel-drug molecule complexes. |
| 2018 |
Professor Craig Crews | Yale University | Awarded for pioneering contributions to the field of controlled proteostasis, including the development of the proteasome inhibitor carfilzomib/KyprolisTM and the PROTAC protein-degrading technology. |
| 2016 | Professor David Lilley | University of Dundee | Awarded for pioneering research on branched nucleic acids, including the elucidation of the structure and mechanism of DNA junction-resolving enzymes and catalytic RNA molecules. |
| 2014 | Professor Gideon Davies | University of York | Awarded for his seminal and lasting contributions to our understanding of carbohydrate enzymology, particularly in his pioneering work on conformational analysis of enzyme action. |
| 2012 | Professor Lewis Kay | University of Toronto | Awarded for the development of modern NMR spectroscopy for studies of biomolecular structure, dynamics and function including applications to supra-molecular machines and excited protein conformations that play critical roles in biochemical processes. |
| 2010 | Christopher Dobson | University of Cambridge | Awarded for his outstanding contributions to the study of the structure and properties of biological molecules, especially proteins, and their relationship to biological evolution and disease. |
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