Recent Peptide Publications

Congratulations to Kira Podolsky, Schmidt Science Fellow at MIT and APS 2025 oral presentation award winner, named a co-recipient of the inaugural Stratingh Award by the Stratingh Institute for Chemistry at the University of Groningen. The award recognizes outstanding early-career researchers in molecular chemistry within four years of completing their PhD. Podolsky will deliver a plenary lecture at the GroMoChem International Symposium in Groningen this May.

The Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Innovations in Peptide and Protein Science, CIPPS, has announced the inaugural Summer School in Peptide Science, SSIPS. The Summer School will run in conjunction with the 5th International Conference on Cyclic Peptides, ICCP, at Heron Island Resort on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia, from 12–19 July 2026.

The program is designed for the training of graduate students and early-career postdoctoral researchers. The faculty comprises leading international experts who will deliver lectures and workshops spanning peptide discovery, green chemistry, computational design, and peptide translation.

The 2027 R. Bruce Merrifield Award recognizing the lifetime achievement of a peptide scientist, whose work exemplifies the highest level of scientific creativity will be presented at the 30th American Peptide Symposium in Boston, MA, June 20-24, 2027.

Nominating documents should be submitted by April 15th, 2026.

Each name appearing in the authors' line of a research article carries a story. The Biochemistry paper from the Waters laboratory at the University of North Carolina, which revealed how cooperative binding interactions govern selectivity in histone reader proteins, is no exception. Behind the science stands a team whose trajectories from Chapel Hill now span academia and industry, from North Carolina to South San Francisco.