Professional Positions

Firmenich Professor of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017–present
Associate Member, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, 2017–present
Visiting Associate in Chemistry, California Institute of Technology, 2009
Professor of Chemistry, various ranks, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 1997–2017
Professor of Biochemistry, various ranks, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 1989–2017

Education

Helen Hay Whitney Postdoctoral Fellow, UCSF, W. J. Rutter, 1986–1989
Ph.D., Chemistry, Harvard University, J. R. Knowles, 1986
A.M., Chemistry, Harvard University, J. R. Knowles, 1982
Sc.B., Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, C. T. Walsh, 1980
Sc.B., Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, C. T. Walsh, 1980

APS Service

Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Peptide Science, 2004–present
Chair, ad hoc, APS Award Committee, 2019
APS Councilor, 2019 - present

Awards & Honors

2025 – AstraZeneca Protein and Peptide Science Award, Royal Society of Chemistry, London
2022 – Biopolymers Murray Goodman Memorial Prize, American Chemical Society
2022 – Khorana Prize, Royal Society of Chemistry, London
2022 – Member, American Academy of Arts & Sciences
2019 – Max Bergmann Medal, Max Bergmann Society, Germany/Austria/Switzerland
2017 – Vincent du Vigneaud Award, American Peptide Society
2016 – Ralph F. Hirschmann Award, American Chemical Society
2015 – Humboldt Research Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Bonn
2013 – Jeremy Knowles Award, Royal Society of Chemistry, London
2010 – Repligen Award, American Chemical Society
2007 – Rao Makineni Lectureship Award, American Peptide Society
2006 – Fellow, Royal Society of Chemistry, London
2005 – Emil Thomas Kaiser Award, Protein Society
2004 – Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award, American Chemical Society
1998 – Pfizer Award, American Chemical Society

Ronald T. Raines
Councilor
Firmenich Professor of Chemistry
Massachusetts Institute of Technology