R. Bruce Merrifield Award
From 1977 to 1995, this was The Alan E. Pierce Award, sponsored by the Pierce Chemical Company. The Merrifield Award was established in 1997 by an endowment from Rao Makineni. The Merrifield Award, presented at the biennial symposia, recognizes the lifetime achievement of a peptide scientist, whose work exemplifies the highest level of scientific creativity.
Recipients
2020s
2025
Philip E. Dawson
Department of Chemistry at Scripps Research, La Jolla, CA
2023
Sam Gellman
University of Wisconsin - Madison
2021
Padmanabhan Balaram
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
2010s
2019
Lila Gierasch
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
2017
Charles Deber
University of Toronto, Hospital for Sick Children
2017
Robert Hodges
University of Colorado at Denver
2015
Horst Kessler
TU München Institute for Advanced Study
2013
James P. Tam
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
2011
Richard DiMarchi
Indiana University
2000s
2009
Stephen B.H. Kent
University of Chicago
2007
Isabella Karle
Naval Research Laboratory
2005
Richard A. Houghten
Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular Studies
2001
Garland R. Marshall
Washington University Medical School, St. Louis
1990s
1999
Daniel H. Rich
University of Wisconsin, Madison
1997
Shumpei Sakakibara
Peptide Institute, Inc.
1995
John M. Stewart
University of Colorado at Denver
1993
Victor J. Hruby
University of Arizona
1991
Daniel F. Veber
Merck, Sharp & Dohme
1980s
1989
Murray Goodman
University of California at San Diego
1988
William F. DeGrado
DuPont Central Research
1987
Cho Hao Li
University of California at San Francisco
1985
Robert Schwyzer
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
1983
Ralph F. Hirschmann
Merck, Sharp & Dohme
1981
Klaus Hofmann
University of Pittsburgh - School of Medicine
1970s
1979
Bruce Merrifield
The Rockefeller University
1977
Miklos Bodanszky
Case Western Reserve University
Robert Bruce Merrifield, July 15, 1921 — May 14, 2006, was an American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1984 for the invention of solid phase peptide synthesis. His wife Elizabeth, Libby, a biologist by training, joined the Merrifield laboratory at Rockefeller University where she worked for over 23 years.