Robert Dirks Molecular Programming Prize

The 2025 Robert Dirks Molecular Programming Prize was awarded to Dr. Constantine Evans for his work on pattern recognition via nucleation kinetics of multifarious [...]

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 [...]

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 for his work engineering hierarchical, disordered, and reconfigurable programmable [...]

The 2018 Robert Dirks Molecular Programming Prize was awarded to Dr. Fei Zhang for her work engineering molecular wireframes with defined vertex angles and edge curvatures [...]

The 2017 Robert Dirks Molecular Programming Prize was awarded to Dr. Ashwin Gopinath for his work developing scalable and programmable nanophotonic devices. Combining the [...]

The inaugural Robert Dirks Molecular Programming Prize was awarded to Dr. Thomas Ouldridge for his work developing a coarse-grained model and simulation framework for DNA. By [...]