Robert Dirks Molecular Programming Prize 2023 – Dr. Qi Shen
The 2023 Robert Dirks Molecular Programming Prize was awarded to Dr. Qi Shen for his work engineering synthetic nuclear pore mimics to elucidate nuclear pore transport. Qi performed this research at Yale University as a postdoctoral scholar and research scientist working under the supervision of Prof. Chenxiang Lin, Prof. Patrick Lusk, Prof. Thomas Melia, and Prof. Yong Xiong.