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Apply for DBC Student Travel Awards by May 15!
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Apply for DBC Student Travel Awards by May 15!

Student Travel Awards for Fall ACS 2024 are due by May 15, 2024! The ACS Division of Biological Chemistry offers travel awards on a competitive basis for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows to attend each national meeting and present a poster or oral presentation on their research. Selected awardees will be reimbursed up to $600 for travel and registration expenses.

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Ben Cravatt is Recipient of the 2024 BMS Award in Enzyme Chemistry
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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.”

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DBC Social Media Organizer, Eric Kohn, Selected as a 2024 CAS Future Leader
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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.

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Leonardo Betancurt Receives the 2024 Founders Award
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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.

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Submit a Nomination for the DBC Undergraduate Award
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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!

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Richard Silverman Receives the 2024 Abeles and Jencks Award for the Chemistry of Biological Processes
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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.

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Joseph Cotruvo, Jr. Receives the 2024 Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry
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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.

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