The Division is very excited to announce that Professor Chaitan Khosla is the recipient of the 2026 Abeles and Jencks Award for the Chemistry of Biological Processes. Administered by the Division of Biochemistry and Chemical Biology (BIOL) of the American Chemical Society (ACS), this award was established to acknowledge and encourage outstanding contributions to the understanding of the chemistry of biological processes, with particular emphasis on structure, function, and mechanism.

Division Chair, John Schneekloth Jr., shares BIOL news and updates in an email sent out to members on August 14, 2025. It includes information about our name change, our future vision, and several updates about future meetings.

The Division is very excited to announce that Professor Alexis Komor has been selected as the recipient of the 2026 Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry! Administered by the Division of Biochemistry and Chemical Biology (BIOL) of the American Chemical Society (ACS) and sponsored by Eli Lilly, this award was established to stimulate fundamental research in biological chemistry by scientists within 10 years of their last postdoctoral training. Komor was selected because of her substantial and significant contributions to the genome editing and nucleic acid chemistry fields. Her lab has expanded the scope, efficiency, precision, and therapeutic relevance of genome editing for point mutations, which are the largest class of disease-associated genetic variants.

The Editors of ACS Infectious Diseases and the ACS Division of Biochemistry and Chemical Biology (BIOL) are pleased to announce the winners of the 2025 ACS Infectious Diseases Young Investigator Joint Lectureship Awards are Clarissa Melo Czekster, Dmitry Lyumkis, and Aran Singanayagam.

The Division is very excited to announce that Professor Tom Muir is the recipient of the 2025 Bristol Myers Squibb Award in Enzyme Chemistry and Chemical Biology. Administered by the Division of Biochemistry and Chemical Biology (BIOL) of the American Chemical Society (ACS) and sponsored by Bristol Myers Squibb, this award was established to recognize a prominent scientist whose research accomplishments in biochemistry or chemical biology are unusually significant and far-reaching.

The ACS Division of Biochemistry and Chemical Biology, alongside Biochemistry, would like to congratulate the 2025 winners of the Gordon Hammes Awards! The recipients are: Prof. Karen Allen (Boston University), 2025 Gordon Hammes Lecturer; Dr. Jianjun Cao (Monash University), 2025 Gordon Hammes Scholar