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Svetlana Mojsov Awarded 2026 King Faisal Prize
APS member Svetlana Mojsov, a biochemist at The Rockefeller University, has received the 2026 King Faisal Prize in Medicine for the foundational chemistry that made …
GLP-1 Medicines Expand Into New Disease Territory
APS member Richard DiMarchi, Distinguished Professor at Indiana University and pioneer of GLP-1 multiagonist chemistry, is prominently featured in a major New York Times opinion …
Peptide Materials Gordon Research Conference
The Gordon Research Conferences has announced the third Peptide Materials Gordon Research Conference, GRC, to be held January 17–22, 2027, at Staybridge Suites Oxnard – …
Victor Hruby Symposium
The American Peptide Society invites all members and colleagues to attend the Victor J. Hruby Symposium, May 21–22, 2026, in Tucson, Arizona. This landmark event …
Kira Podolsky Inaugural Stratingh Awardee
Congratulations to Kira Podolsky, Schmidt Science Fellow at MIT and APS 2025 oral presentation award winner, named a co-recipient of the inaugural Stratingh Award by …
Call for Nominations
The 2027 R. Bruce Merrifield Award recognizing the lifetime achievement of a peptide scientist, whose work exemplifies the highest level of scientific creativity will be …
Cooperativity Unlocked - The Team
Each name appearing in the authors' line of a research article carries a story. The Biochemistry paper from the Waters laboratory at the University of …
Partners in Discovery
When Michael Bertucci and Yftah Tal-Gan set up their posters side by side at the 2015 American Peptide Symposium in Orlando, they discovered something remarkable: …
Call for Nominations
The American Peptide Society is accepting nominations for the 2026 Early Career Lectureship which will be presented at the 30th American Peptide Symposium to be …
San Diego Symposium 2025 Images
The 2025 Dr. Elizabeth Schram Award for Young Investigator Oral Presentation winners with presenters. From left to right: Professors Jean Chmielewski and Eileen Kennedy, Doctors …