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Vincent du Vigneaud Award

The Vincent du Vigneaud Award recognizes outstanding achievements in peptide research by mid-career scientists who have demonstrated exceptional creativity and productivity in the field. Named after Vincent du Vigneaud, who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1955 for his work on biochemically important sulfur compounds and the first synthesis of a polypeptide hormone, oxytocin.

This award honors researchers who have made significant contributions to our understanding of peptide chemistry, biology, and their applications.

Recipients

2020s

2025 Ashraf Brik
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Schulich Faculty of Chemistry
2025 Dek Woolfson
University of Bristol
2023 Helma Wennemers
ETH Zurich
2023 Marcey Waters
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2021 Alanna Schepartz
University of California, Berkeley
2021 Joel Schneider
Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute

2010s

2019 Hiroaki Suga
The University of Tokyo
2019 Annette Beck-Sickinger
Leipzig University
2017 Ronald Raines
University of Wisconsin at Madison
2017 Wilfred van der Donk
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2015 David Craik
University of Queensland
2015 Jean Chmielewski
Purdue University
2013 Kit Sang Lam
University of California, Davis School of Medicine
2013 Michael Chorev
Harvard Medical Scool
2011 Morten Meldal
Carlsberg Laboratories, Copenhagen
2011 Fernando Albericio
University of Barcelona
2010 Reza Ghadiri
Scripps Research
2010 Philip Dawson
Scripps Research

2000s

2008 Thomas W. Muir
Rockefeller University
2008 Jeffery W. Kelly
Scripps Research
2006 Samuel H. Gellman
University of Wisconsin
2006 Barbara Imperiali
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2004 Stephen B. H. Kent
University of Chicago
2004 Dieter Seebach
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Zurich
2002 Horst Kessler
Technical University of München
2002 Robert Hodges
University of Colorado, School of Medicine
2000 Charles M. Deber
University of Toronto
2000 Richard A. Houghten
Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular Studies

1990s

1998 Peter W. Schiller
Clinical Research Institute of Montreal
1998 James A. Wells
Genentech, Inc.
1996 Richard G. Hiskey
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
1996 Arthur M. Felix
Hoffmann-La Roche, Inc.
1994 George Barany
University of Minnesota at Minneapolis
1994 Garland R. Marshall
Washington University Medical School at St. Louis
1992 Isabella Lugoski Karle
Naval Research Laboratory
1992 Wylie W. Vale
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
1990 Daniel H. Rich
University of Wisconsin at Madison
1990 Jean E. Rivier
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies

1980s

1988 William F. DeGrado
DuPont Central Research
1988 Tomi K. Sawyer
The Upjohn Company
1986 Michael Rosenblatt
Massachusetts General Hospital
1986 James P. Tam
The Rockefeller University
1986 Roger M. Freidinger
Merck, Sharp & Dohme
1984 Betty Sue Eipper
The Johns Hopkins University
1984 Lila M. Gierash
University of Delaware
1984 Richard E. Mains
The Johns Hopkins University
Vincent du Vigneaud
Vincent du Vigneaud, May 18, 1901 – December 11, 1978, was an American biochemist. He won the 1955 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his work on biochemically important sulphur compounds, especially for the first synthesis of a polypeptide hormone," a reference to his work on the cyclic peptide oxytocin.