Past Recipients

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The 2019 Robert Dirks Molecular Programming Prize was awarded to Dr. Grigory Tikhomirov of the California Institute of Technology for his work engineering hierarchical, [...]

  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 [...]

The 2017 Robert Dirks Molecular Programming Prize was awarded to Dr. Ashwin Gopinath of the California Institute of Technology, for his work developing scalable [...]

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 [...]