DiscoverBMB 2023 award lectures

Award for Exemplary Contributions to Education

• Regina Stevens–Truss
• Kalamazoo College

Lecture: What does educating biochemists really mean?

Read about Stevens–Truss's research

ASBMB–Merck Award

• Squire J. Booker
• The Pennsylvania State University; Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Lecture: An unexpected strategy for the biosynthesis of archaeal macrocyclic lipids

Read about Booker's research

Avanti Award in Lipids

• Russell DeBose–Boyd
• University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas

Lecture: Regulation of proteostasis in the cholesterol biosynthetic pathway

Read about DeBose–Boyd's research

Bert and Natalie Vallee Award in Biomedical Science

• Erica Ollmann Saphire
• La Jolla Institute for Immunology

Lecture: Our wits vs. their genes: Resolution, engineering and global human collaborations against emerging infectious disease

Read about Saphire's research

Earl and Thressa Stadtman Young Scholar Award

• Scott Dixon
• Stanford University

Lecture: Discovering new molecular mechanisms of cell death

Read about Dixon's research

Herbert Tabor Research Award

• Ajit Varki
• University of California, San Diego School of Medicine

Lecture: Adventures in the biological chemistry, molecular biology and evolution of sialic acids

Read about Varki's research

Mildred Cohn Award in Biological Chemistry

• Anne Kenworthy
• University of Virginia

Lecture: How to build, manipulate, and destroy functional nanodomains in cell membranes

Read about Kenworthy's research

Ruth Kirschstein Diversity in Science Award

• Squire J. Booker
• The Pennsylvania State University; Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Lecture: Guess who’s coming to dinner?

Read about Booker's research

The Alice and C.C. Wang Award in Molecular Parasitology

• Keith Matthews
• University of Edinburgh

Lecture: Quorum sensing and developmental mechanisms in African Trypanosomes

Read about Matthews' research

• Dyann Wirth
• Harvard University T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Broad Institute

Lecture: Harnessing genomics to understand malaria biology

Read about Wirth's research

Walter A. Shaw Young Investigator Award in Lipid Research

• Itay Budin
• University of California, San Diego

Lecture: How lipid chemistry shapes biology: from the powerhouse of our cells to the bottom of the earth’s oceans

Read about Budin's research

William C. Rose Award

• Catherine Drennan
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Lecture: Revealing the secrets of metalloenzymes one snapshot at a time

Read about Drennan's research