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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: …
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 …