News Archive
A Tribute to Christopher Welsh
Christopher T. Walsh, 1944–2023, would probably not have called himself a peptide scientist. Open almost any recent paper on nonribosomal peptide synthetases, on ribosomally...
2026 APS Early Career Lectureship Awardee
Andy Nguyen, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois Chicago, UIC, is the 2026 APS Early Career Lectureship Awardee.
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 – …
Registration Open for APS 2027 Symposium
Registration for the 30th American Peptide Symposium, Boston, June 2027, is now open
Svetlana Mojsov and the GLP-1 Record
A new episode of the Lost Women of Science podcast tells how Svetlana Mojsov identified the active form of GLP-1 in 1983, and how her …
Biopolymers Is Our New Official Journal
The American Peptide Society and Wiley are delighted to announce Biopolymers as the official journal of the Society as of 2026. Founded in 1963 by …
Brik Awarded the Max Bergmann Medal
Professor Ashraf Brik of the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology is the 2026 recipient of the Max Bergmann Medal, awarded by Germany's Max Bergmann Kreis. The …
Sponsor or Exhibit at APS 2027
Put your organization in front of the peptide community in Boston, June 20–24, 2027. Sponsorship and exhibit space are now open for booking.
Wilfred van der Donk Recognized
Wilfred A. van der Donk, Richard E. Heckert Endowed Chair in Chemistry at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, …
Call for Nominations
The 2027 Rao Makineni Lecture Award will be presented at the 30th American Peptide Symposium in Boston, Massachusetts, June 20-24, 2027. The awardee must be …
Nina Hartrampf Awared ERC Grant
Nina Hartrampf has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant for LASSOVERSE, a five-year program to turn lasso peptides into a general scaffold for peptide engineering. …
Arora Earns SEED Award
APS Immediate Past President Paramjit Arora of New York University is among ten scientists receiving 2026 Cottrell Singular Exceptional Endeavors of Discovery (SEED) Awards from …