Professor Shimon Weiss wins Biophysical Society’s Kazuhiko Kinosita Award in Single-Molecule Biophysics for trailblazing contributions to the field of single-molecule fluorescence detection biophysics.   Weiss will be honored at the Society’s 66th Annual Meeting in February 2022. The Kazuhiko Kinosita Award in Single-Molecule Biophysics recognizes outstanding researchers for their exceptional contributions in advancing the field of […]

Professor Richard Kaner has been selected to receive the Qian Baojun Fiber Award (Distinguished Achievement) for his “pioneering work of conducting organic fibers especially conducting polyaniline nanofibers.” Kaner received the international award, which includes a $10,000 prize, at the International Conference on Advanced Fibers and Polymer Materials (ICAFPM2021), October 17-20 at Donghua University (Songjiang Campus), […]

Professor Keriann Backus receives prestigious $1.5 million New Innovator Award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) High-Risk, High-Reward Research program.   Backus received the award for her research titled “A Systems-Level Approach to Decipher the Protein Interactome.’’ This work involves the development and application of novel chemistries to determine precisely where and when protein interactions […]

Professor Ken Houk has been named winner of the prestigious 2021 Foresight Institute Feynman Prize for Theory in nanotechnology.   Since 1993, The Foresight Institute Feynman Prize for Theory is awarded for excellence in theory to the researchers whose recent work has most advanced the achievement of Feynman’s goal for nanotechnology: molecular manufacturing, defined as the […]

Professor Abigail Doyle and alum Northeastern Assistant Professor Steven Lopez (PhD ’15, Houk) are co-PIs on the new $15M NSF Institute for Data-Driven Dynamical Design. The interdisciplinary, multi-institutional project, led by Colorado School of Mines, aims to create new theoretically grounded and experimentally validated approaches and tools to design and discover dynamical materials and structures […]

Graduate students Weixian Deng, Yi Xiao “Sean” Jiang, Maria Flores, Carter Lantz, and Logan Richards have been selected as 2021-2022 Fowler Fellows. Each Fellow presented a talk at the Audree V. Fowler Fellowships in Protein Science Special Seminar on Tuesday, October 5, 2021 from 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm in Boyer 159 and online via […]

Professor Anastassia Alexandrova has been selected to receive the prestigious Max Planck-Humboldt Medal, which honors extraordinary scientists outside Germany with outstanding future potential. The medal is awarded jointly by Germany’s Max-Planck-Gesellschaft and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. From UCLA Newsroom (by Stuart Wolpert): Chemist Anastassia Alexandrova receives Max Planck-Humboldt Medal Anastassia Alexandrova (Reed Hutchinson/UCLA) Anastassia […]

Professor Abigail Doyle wins the ACS EJ Corey award for her outstanding original and insightful contributions to organic synthesis. Since 2004, the American Chemical Society (ACS) has honored young investigators with the award, which is sponsored by the Pfizer Endowment Fund. Doyle will be honored at the Elias J. Corey Award for Outstanding Original Contribution in […]