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 [...]
Past Recipients
Robert Dirks Molecular Programming Prize 2022 – 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 [...]
Robert Dirks Molecular Programming Prize 2021 – 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 [...]
Robert Dirks Molecular Programming Prize 2020 – 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 [...]
Robert Dirks Molecular Programming Prize 2019 – 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, [...]
Robert Dirks Molecular Programming Prize 2018 – 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 [...]
Robert Dirks Molecular Programming Prize 2017 – 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 [...]
Robert Dirks Molecular Programming Prize 2016 – 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 [...]
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