Jeremy Baskin is the Recipient of the 2025 ACS Chemical Biology Young Investigator Award
ACS Chemical Biology and the ACS Division of Biochemistry and Chemical Biology (BIOL) are proud to announce Dr. Jeremy Baskin of Cornell University as the recipient of the 2025 ACS Chemical Biology Young Investigator Award! This award was created to honor the contributions of an individual who has had a major impact on scientific research in the area of Chemical Biology and has published at least one paper in ACS Chemical Biology. Administered jointly by the Editor-in-Chief of ACS Chemical Biology and the ACS Division of Biochemistry and Chemical Biology, the award is celebrated by a symposium of invited speakers hosted by the Division of Biochemistry and Chemical Biology in the awardee’s honor at the Spring ACS National Meeting. Dr. Baskin will present the ACS Chemical Biology Young Investigator Lecture during ACS Spring 2025 on Wednesday, March 26 from 2:00 PM - 4:50 PM in the San Diego Convention Center.
Jeremy M. Baskin is Associate Professor, Nancy and Peter Meinig Family Investigator in the Life Sciences, and Director of the Chemistry–Biology Interface Program at Cornell University, with appointments in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and the Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology. He was born and raised in Montreal, Canada and received his undergraduate education at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with a major in Chemistry and minors in Biology and Music. Jeremy carried out Ph.D. studies supported by NDSEG and NSF graduate fellowships in Carolyn Bertozzi’s group at the University of California, Berkeley, focusing on development of bioorthogonal chemistries. Jeremy received postdoctoral training in cell biology as a Jane Coffin Childs fellow at Yale University with Pietro De Camilli.
Research in the Baskin lab centers on the chemical biology and cell biology of lipid signaling, with a focus both on development of tools for imaging and editing cellular lipids and elucidation of mechanisms underlying physiological and pathological lipid metabolism and signaling events. Jeremy has been the recipient of numerous awards, including Beckman Young Investigator, Sloan Research Fellowship, NSF CAREER, ACS Young Academic Investigator, ASBMB Walter A. Shaw Young Investigator in Lipid Research, and ICBS Young Chemical Biologist Award.
For more information about this year’s winner, be sure to visit Dr. Baskin’s ACS Axial award profile by clicking here.