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 [...]
Prizes
2023 Ned Seeman Nanoscience Prize – Prof. Frances Arnold
Frances Arnold is the Linus Pauling Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering and Biochemistry at the California Institute of Technology. In 2018, Arnold [...]
Rozenberg Tulip Award 2023 (DNA29): Georg Seelig, Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineer and at the Paul G. Allen School for Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington Seattle
For his work on DNA computing with strand displacement systems, which has had enormous impact on the field. And for interfacing strand displacement with biological [...]
Rozenberg Tulip Award 2022 (DNA28); Andrew Phillips, Director of Bioinformatics, Biologics Engineering, AstraZeneca
For his influential work on the Visual DSD software system, which greatly simplifies formal specification, design and analysis of DNA Strand Displacement systems. And for [...]
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 [...]
Rozenberg Tulip Award 2021 (DNA27); Chengde Mao, Professor of Chemistry, Purdue University
For pioneering contributions to DNA self-assembly, including DNA-directed self-assembly of proteins, DNA nanocages, and DNA [...]
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 [...]
Rozenberg Tulip Award 2020 (DNA26): Niles Pierce, Professor of Applied and Computational Mathematics and Bioengineering, Caltech
For pioneering advances in the field of molecular engineering, including the hybridization chain reaction (HCR), for algorithmic advances in nucleic acid structure prediction [...]
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 [...]
2020 ISNSCE Nanoscience Prize – Prof. Samuel Stupp
The 2020 awardee for the ISNSCE Nanoscience Prize is Professor Samuel I. Stupp from Northwestern University, where he is Board of Trustees Professor of Materials Science and [...]
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