Vincent du Vigneaud Award

The Vincent du Vigneaud Award recognizes outstanding achievements in peptide research by 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

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

2010s

Anette Bedck-Sickinger
Leipzig University
Hiroaki Suga
The University of Tokyo
Wilfred van der Donk
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ronald T. Raines
University of Wisconsin at Madison
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University of Queensland
Jean Chmielewski
Purdue University
Michael Chorev
Harvard Medical Scool
Kit Lam
University of California, Davis School of Medicine
Morten Meldal
Carlsberg Laboratories, Copenhagen
Fernando Albericio
University of Barcelona
Reza Ghadiri
Scripps Research
Philip Dawson
Scripps Research

2000s

Jefferey Kelly
Scripps Research
Thomas Muir
Rockefeller University
Barbara Imperiali
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Samuel Gellman
University of Wisconsin
Stephen Kent
University of Chicago
Dieter Seebach
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Zurich
Horst Kessler
Technical University of München
Robert S. Hodges
University of Colorado, School of Medicine
Charles M. Deber
University of Toronto
Richard Houghten
Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular Studies

1990s

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

1980s

Tomi K. Sawyer
The Upjohn Company
Degrado William
DuPont Central Research
Michael Rosenblatt
Massachusetts General Hospital
Roger Freidinger
Merck, Sharp & Dohme
Tam James
The Rockefeller University
Lila Gierash
University of Delaware
Betty Sue Eipper
The Johns Hopkins University
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.