2023 Robert Dirks Molecular Programming Prize – 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 [...]
Dirks Prize: Past Recipients
2022 Robert Dirks Molecular Programming Prize – Dr. Kasturi Chakraborty
The 2022 Robert Dirks Molecular Programming Prize was awarded to Dr. Kasturi Chakraborty for her work on multimodal DNA-based ion reporters and tissue-specific targeting of [...]
2021 Robert Dirks Molecular Programming Prize – Dr. Samuel Schaffter
The 2021 Robert Dirks Molecular Programming Prize was awarded to Dr. Samuel Schaffter for his work on modular in vitro regulatory networks and feedback control of [...]
2020 Robert Dirks Molecular Programming Prize – Dr. Zibo Chen
The 2020 Robert Dirks Molecular Programming Prize was awarded to Dr. Zibo Chen for his work in rational protein design, inspired by the modularity and programmability of DNA [...]
2019 Robert Dirks Molecular Programming Prize – Dr. Grigory Tikhomirov
The 2019 Robert Dirks Molecular Programming Prize was awarded to Dr. Grigory Tikhomirov of the California Institute of Technology for his work engineering hierarchical, [...]
2018 Robert Dirks Molecular Programming Prize – Dr. Fei Zhang
The 2018 Robert Dirks Molecular Programming Prize was awarded to Dr. Fei Zhang of Arizona State University for her work engineering molecular wireframes with defined [...]
2017 Robert Dirks Molecular Programming Prize – Dr. Ashwin Gopinath
The 2017 Robert Dirks Molecular Programming Prize was awarded to Dr. Ashwin Gopinath of the California Institute of Technology, for his work developing scalable [...]
2016 Robert Dirks Molecular Programming Prize – Dr. Thomas Ouldridge
The inaugural Robert Dirks Molecular Programming Prize was awarded to Dr. Thomas Ouldridge of Imperial College London, for his work developing a coarse-grained model and [...]