News Archive
The BPC-157 Question
A fifteen-amino-acid peptide named BPC-157 has spent fifty years on the margins of medicine and is now headed for an FDA advisory review. In a …
Call for Papers
This Special Issue of OPR&D; will highlight advances in design, synthesis, purification, and manufacturing strategies that translate molecular complexity into process reliability. Submit your manuscript …
Helma Wennemers Receives the Wilhelm Ostwald Medal
Prof. Helma Wennemers is one of two recipients this year of the Wilhelm Ostwald Medal, the Saxon Academy of Sciences' most important prize, awarded in …
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: …