Rao Makineni Lectureship

The Lectureship honors Rao Makineni, a long time supporter of peptide science, peptide scientists, and the American Peptide Society. The Makineni Lecture is presented at the biennial American Peptide Symposia. The Makineni Lectureship recognizes an individual who has made a recent contribution of unusual merit to research in the field of peptide science. The award is intended to recognize original and singular discoveries rather than cumulative or lifetime contributions. The Lectureship is endowed by PolyPeptide Laboratories and Murray and Zelda Goodman (2003).

Rao Makineni Lecturers:

2003	Dr. James P. Tam	Vanderbilt University

The American Peptide Society is proud to sponsor the following awards:

The R. Bruce Merrifield Award

Endowed by Dr. Rao Makineni (1997)
Previously called the Alan E. Pierce Award, Sponsored by Pierce Chemical Company (1977-1995)

2003	William F. DeGrado	University of Pennsylvania
2001	Garland R. Marshall	Washington University Medical School, St. Louis
1999	Daniel H. Rich	University of Wisconsin, Madison
1997	Shumpei Sakakibara	Peptide Institute, Inc.
1995	John M. Stewart	University of Colorado, Denver
1993	Victor J. Hruby	University of Arizona
1991	Daniel F. Veber	Merck Sharp & Dohme
1989	Murray Goodman	University of California, San Diego
1987	Choh Hao Li	University of California, San Francisco
1985	Robert Schwyzer	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
1983	Ralph F. Hirschmann	Merck Sharp & Dohme
1981	Klaus Hofmann	University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine
1979	Bruce Merrifield	The Rockefeller University
1977	Miklos Bodanszky	Case Western Reserve University

The Vincent du Vigneaud Award

Sponsored by BACHEM Inc.

The American Peptide Society is very pleased to announce that the Awards Committee has selected Stephen B. H. Kent (University of Chicago) and Dieter Seebach (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich) to receive the 2004 Vincent du Vigneaud Awards for their outstanding contributions to peptide science. The awards will be presented during the Gordon Research Conference on the Chemistry and Biology of Peptides in Ventura, California, February 15 - 20, 2004.

2004	Stephen B. H. Kent	University of Chicago
	Dieter Seebach	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich
2002	Horst Kessler	Technical University of Munich
	Robert Hodges	School of Medicine, University of Colorado
2000	Charles M. Deber	University of Toronto
	Richard A. Houghten	Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular Studies
1998	Peter W. Schiller	Clinical Research Institute of Montreal
	James A. Wells	Genentech, Inc
1996	Arthur M. Felix	Hoffmann-La Roche, Inc.
	Richard G. Hiskey	University of North Carolina
1994	George Barany	University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
	Garland R. Marshall	Washington University Medical School, St. Louis
1992	Isabella L. Karle	Naval Research Laboratory
	Wylie W. Vale	The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
1990	Daniel H. Rich	University of Wisconsin-Madison
	Jean E. Rivier	The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
1988	William F. De Grado	DuPont Central Research
	Tomi K. Sawyer	The Upjohn Company
1986	Roger M. Freidinger	Merck Sharpe & Dohme
	Michael Rosenblatt	Massachusetts General Hospital
	James P. Tam	The Rockefeller University
1984	Betty Sue Eipper	The Johns Hopkins University
	Lila M. Gierasch	University of Delaware
	Richard E. Mains	The Johns Hopkins University

In addition, several of our members and colleagues have been honored with some of the most prestigious scientific awards in the world:

The American Chemical Society Ralph Hirschmann Award in Peptide Chemistry

Established in 1988 by Merck Research Laboratories

2004	Richard A. Houghten	Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular Studies
2003	Roger M. Freidinger	Merck Research Laboratories
2002	Victor Hruby	University of Arizona
2001	Daniel F. Veber	SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals
2000	Daniel S. Kemp	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1999	Harold A. Scheraga	Cornell University
1998	Isabella L. Karle	Naval Research Laboratory
1997	Murray Goodman	University of California, San Diego
1996	Steven G. Clarke	University of California, Los Angeles
1995	Shumpei Sakakibara	Peptide Institute, Inc.
1994	Stephen B.H. Kent	Scripps Research Institute
1993	Daniel H. Rich	University of Wisconsin, Madison
1992	Louis A. Carpino	University of Massachusetts
1991	Elkan R. Blout	Harvard Medical School
1990	Bruce Merrifield	The Rockefeller University

The National Medal of Science

The 2000 National Medal of Science was awarded to Dr. Ralph F. Hirschmann "for his seminal contributions to organic and to medicinal chemistry." The 1995 National Medal of Science was awarded to Dr. Isabella Karle in recognition of her contributions to the "development and application of a method [symbolic addition procedure] for determining essentially equal-atom crystal and molecular structures by X-ray analysis." For further information on this award, please visit the National Science and Technology Medals Foundation.

The Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to both Vincent du Vigneaud (1955) and R. Bruce Merrifield (1984) for their respective contributions to the chemistry of peptides, allowing them to take their rightful place among the greatest chemists of this century. For further information on this award, please visit the Nobel Prize website.