Welcome to the American Peptide Society
The American Peptide Society is a nonprofit scientific and educational organization dedicated to advancing the chemistry and biology of peptides. Our community traces its roots to the first American Peptide Symposium, held at Yale in 1968, and across more than half a century since, we have grown into an international society that brings together academic, industrial, and clinical researchers at every career stage.
Peptide News
The latest from the peptide science community.
Sponsor or Exhibit at APS 2027
Put your organization in front of the peptide community in Boston, June 20–24, …
Oct 1, 2026
Wilfred van der Donk Recognized
Wilfred A. van der Donk, Richard E. Heckert Endowed Chair in Chemistry at …
Sep 28, 2026
Call for Nominations
The 2027 Rao Makineni Lecture Award will be presented at the 30th American …
Sep 18, 2026
Nina Hartrampf Awared ERC Grant
Nina Hartrampf has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant for LASSOVERSE, a five-year …
Sep 9, 2026
Arora Earns SEED Award
APS Immediate Past President Paramjit Arora of New York University is among ten …
Aug 25, 2026
Ashraf Brik Named Advanced Partner
Professor Ashraf Brik, holder of the Jordan and Irene Tark Academic Chair in …
Aug 8, 2026
Interview with Joshua Kritzer
We are republishing the following MedShadow interview because the questions it raises are, …
Jul 31, 2026
From Moth to Medicine
Omnix Medical has advanced OMN6, a cyclized, protease-resistant antimicrobial peptide engineered from the …
Jul 13, 2026
Recent Peptide Publications
Recent publications of interest
Unmasking Thioaldehydes
Myers Lab
Oct 3, 2026
Unlocking the Power of Biosynthetic Tailoring Enzymes
Barry Lab
Oct 3, 2026
Unlocking Cyclic Dipeptides
Hecht Lab
Oct 3, 2026
Expanding Cyclic Space
Duan Lab
Oct 1, 2026
Blocking MS Autoantibodies
Kumar Lab
Sep 30, 2026
Fibers Trap Persisters
Zhan Lab
Sep 29, 2026
Loop Surprise
Faure & Taillefumier Lab
Sep 29, 2026
Homocitrulline Reimagined
Rosenzweig Lab
Sep 28, 2026
Mapping Macrocycle Motion
Sun & Yudin Labs
Sep 28, 2026
Conducting Peptoid Sheets
Tran Lab
Sep 27, 2026
Degraders Beat Hypoxia
Tavassoli Lab
Sep 24, 2026
Chirality Targets Lysosomes
Li and Chen Labs
Sep 24, 2026
Peptide People & Processes
People, labs, and resources from across the field.
The Ashraf Brik Lab
Ashraf Brik · Technion–Israel Institute of Technology
Biology builds ubiquitin chains in mixtures. Ashraf Brik's group builds them one at a time, by hand, and then delivers them into living cells. …
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Adeline Schmitt
Postdoctoral Fellow
Adeline Schmitt has worked out something about herself that most people never bother to name: she does not like staying in one place. Ask …
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Tiancheng Cheng
Tiancheng Chen, 4th-year Ph.D. Candidate
In the Kennedy Lab at UNC Chapel Hill, fourth-year Ph.D. candidate Tiancheng Chen designs constrained peptides to disarm two kinases that drive disease: LRRK1, …
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Leah T. Roe
QBI Faculty Fellow
Leah T. Roe began an independent research program at the University of California, San Francisco in February 2026 as a QBI Faculty Fellow, a …
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Peptide Synthesis for Beginners
An illustrated primer
A practical guide to manual Fmoc solid-phase peptide synthesis for researchers new to the technique. Covers equipment setup, the coupling and cleavage cycle, purification by preparative HPLC, and …
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