ASBMB Mildred Cohn Young Investigator Award
Nominations for the 2026 ASBMB Annual Awards will open in March.
The ASBMB Mildred Cohn Young Investigator Award recognizes outstanding research contributions to biochemistry and molecular biology. The recipient must have no more than 15 years of experience since receiving a Ph.D. and/or M.D. Only degrees received after March 1, 2009, are eligible for this award. The award is given every other year, alternating with the Earl and Thressa Stadtman Young Scholar Award.
Both nominees and nominators must be ASBMB members.
The award consists of a plaque, $5,000 and travel expenses to present a lecture at the ASBMB annual meeting.
In 2023, the Mildred Cohn Award in Biological Chemistry and the ASBMB Young Investigator Award were combined to create the ASBMB Mildred Cohn Young Investigator Award.
Recipients

ASBMB Young Investigator Award recipients




2015
- Erica Ollmann Saphire

2014
- Samie R. Jaffrey

2013
- Shu-ou Shan

2012
- Kim Orth

2011
- Job Dekker

2010
- John J. G. Tesmer

2009
- Phillip D. Zamore

2008
- Scott A. Strobel

2007
- Christopher B. Burge

2006
- James M. Berger

2005
- Brian Strahl

2004
- Pehr A. B. Harbury

2003
- Catherine Dreenan

2002
- John D. York

2001
- Stephen P. Bell

2000
- Xiadong Wang

1999
- Kun-Liang Guan

1998
- Tania A. Baker

1997
- Carol Greider

1996
- Thomas V. O’Halloran

1995
- Richard Ebright

1994
- John Kuriyan

1993
- Stanley Fields

1992
- Carl Wu

1991
- Douglas A. Melton
Mildred Cohn Award in Biological Chemistry recipients

2023
- Anne Kenworthy







2015
- Judith P. Klinman

2014
- Lila Gierasch

2013
- Jennifer A. Doudna