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Announcing the Winners of the 2024 DBC Young Investigator Award
The ACS Division of Biological Chemistry would like to congratulate the 2024 winners of the DBC Young Investigator Award!
Congratulations to the 2024 Winners of the ACS Infectious Diseases Young Investigator Award!
The ACS Division of Biological Chemistry would like to congratulate the 2024 winners of the ACS Infectious Diseases Young Investigator Award! The three winners are: Prof. Pamela Chang, Cornell University; Prof. Shobhna Kapoor, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay; and Prof. Jun Wang, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.
Ben Cravatt is Recipient of the 2024 BMS Award in Enzyme Chemistry
Professor Ben Cravatt of The Scripps Research Institute is the recipient of the 2024 Bristol Myers Squibb Award in Enzyme Chemistry! This award was established in 2023 and is designed to recognize “individuals whose discoveries are, or will be, translational in nature, impacting the biotechnology industry and over the longer term, human health.”
DBC Social Media Organizer, Eric Kohn, Selected as a 2024 CAS Future Leader
The Division of Biological Chemistry would like to congratulate all of the Ph.D. students and postdoctoral scholars selected to participate in the 2024 CAS Future Leaders Program! And an extra special shout-out to the division’s own social media organizer, Eric Kohn! CAS Future Leaders is a unique program that provides young scientists with leadership training and connections to peers from around the world. Each year, only 35 young scientists are selected to participate in the program.
It’s Official: DBC Will Become the Division of Biochemistry and Chemical Biology!
The Division of Biological Chemistry is excited to announce that we will officially become the Division of Biochemistry and Chemical Biology, effective January 1, 2025. A previous proposal within the division found that 90% of our members supported this name change. As a result of this overwhelming support, the name change was brought before council members at the Spring ACS 2024 last week and was approved with a 70% vote.
Congratulations DBC Student Travel Awardees!
Congratulations to our DBC Student Travel Awardees for ACS Spring 2024! Read more about these outstanding scientists below and be sure to check our their presentations in New Orleans next week.
Division Member, Christine McInnis, Featured in ACS Industry Matters Newsletter
ACS Industry Matters is a newsletter focusing solely on issues of interest to industry chemists with topics on professional development, careers, innovation, safety and more. DBC Member and Principal Investigator at DuPont Nutrition and Biosciences Christine McInnis was recently featured by ACS Industry Matters to provide insight on the topic, “Are Cover Letters Still Relevant?”
Submit Your Abstracts for ACS Fall 2024 by April 1!
Abstract submissions for ACS Fall 2024 are now open! The meeting, titled “Elevating Chemistry”, will take place on August 18-22, 2024 in Denver, Colorado. Abstracts will be accepted until April 1, 2024 and acceptance notices will be sent out the following month.
Submit a Nomination for the DBC Young Investigator Award
Our Awards Committee is happy to announce a second new early career award for 2024! The DBC Young Investigator award will recognize the high-achieving early career trainees that are performing mentored research in biochemistry or chemical biology in a DBC member’s laboratory.
Check Out The Newest DBC Newsletter!
The latest newsletter containing all things DBC has been released! Check it out in your email inbox or view it on the web here.
News From The Awards Committee
The Awards Committee is happy to receive the names of DBC members as prospective nominees for recognition as a 2024 ACS Fellow. Nominations for the 2024 Class of Fellows will be open from February 1 to April 1, 2024.
Leonardo Betancurt Receives the 2024 Founders Award
Leonardo (Leo) Betancurt is the recipient of the 2024 Founders Award. He is a Ph.D. Candidate jointly researching with Kelly Zatopek’s lab at New England Biolabs and Ludovic Sauguet’s lab at Institut Pasteur and gave his talk, “Proofreading mechanism for family D DNA polymerases” at the 2024 Enzyme Mechanisms Conference in Naples, FL.
Submit a Nomination for the DBC Undergraduate Award
Our Awards Committee is happy to announce a new early career award for 2024! The DBC Undergraduate Student Award will recognize the highest-achieving undergraduate senior majoring in biochemistry or chemical biology or a related field, nominated by your ACS-accredited Department of Chemistry or Biochemistry. All awardees will receive a certificate and one-year divisional membership in the DBC!
Make a Nomination for the ACS Infectious Diseases Young Investigator Award!
Make a nomination! The ACS Infectious Diseases Young Investigator Award is a collaboration between ACS Infectious Diseases and the ACS Division of Biological Chemistry recognizing three outstanding young investigators in the field of infectious disease research. The deadline for 2024 nominations is December 7, 2023.
Richard Silverman Receives the 2024 Abeles and Jencks Award for the Chemistry of Biological Processes
Professor Richard B. Silverman of Northwestern University is the recipient of the 2024 Abeles and Jencks Award for the Chemistry of Biological Processes. His first publication with Dr. Abeles (“Inactivation of Pyridoxal Phosphate-Dependent Enzymes by Mono- and Polyhaloalanines”) set the stage for a truly distinguished career and a body of work that showed how mechanistic enzymology could be used to develop a drug by unravelling the fine details of the inactivation process and using these findings to make efficient and specific inactivators.
Joseph Cotruvo, Jr. Receives the 2024 Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry
Prof. Joseph Cotruvo, Jr. of the Pennsylvania State University is the recipient of the 2024 Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry. Prof. Cotruvo is being recognized for his seminal discoveries in the area of the f-block, rare earth element (REE) sensing and biology. His group has described fundamental features of REE coordination chemistry by proteins, and their role in microorganisms.