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Aseem Ansari
Aseem Z. Ansari is an American chemical biologist known for artificial transcription factors that control gene expression; he has chaired Chemical Biology and Therapeutics at St. Jude since 2019.
Ashraf Brik
Ashraf Brik (أشرف بريك), born 1973, is a professor of chemistry at the Technion in Israel, known for the chemical synthesis of ubiquitinated proteins and macrocyclic peptides that modulate ubiquitin chains.
Christian Hackenberger
Christian P. R. Hackenberger (born 1976 in Osnabrück) is a German chemical biologist who, since 2012, has been Leibniz-Humboldt Professor at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and heads chemical biology at the FMP in Berlin.
Claudia Höbartner
Claudia Höbartner is an Austrian chemical biologist who holds the Chair of Organic Chemistry at the University of Würzburg, working on ribozymes, deoxyribozymes, and fluorescent RNA aptamers.
Hiroshi Handa
Hiroshi Handa (半田 宏) is a Japanese molecular biologist and biochemist at Tokyo Medical University known for discovering DSIF and NELF and identifying cereblon as thalidomide's target.
Jörn Piel
Jörn Piel, born 1967, is a German chemist and microbiologist, professor of Microbial Interactions at ETH Zurich since 2013, studying bacterial natural products from sponge symbionts for drug discovery.
Joseph P. Noel
Joseph P. Noel is a structural and chemical biologist, a Salk Institute professor from 1994 to 2026 and HHMI investigator who studies how plants make specialized compounds.
Klaus Mosbach
Klaus Mosbach (1932–2024) was a Swedish biochemist and professor at Lund University, known for developing molecular imprinting and antibody mimics, including his 1993 Nature drug assay paper.
Lia Addadi
Lia Addadi, born 1950, is an Israeli structural chemist at the Weizmann Institute of Science known for her research on biomineralization, how organisms form and control minerals.
Luc Brunsveld
Luc Brunsveld is a full professor of chemical biology at TU Eindhoven, a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy, and scientific co-founder of Ambagon Therapeutics, known for supramolecular chemistry applied to proteins.
Michael Boyce (biochemist)
Michael Scott Boyce is an American biochemist and Associate Professor at Duke University School of Medicine who studies O-GlcNAcylation, a sugar-based signaling mechanism, and received a 2017 PECASE award.
Scott J. Miller
Scott J. Miller, born 1966 in Buffalo, New York, is an American organic chemist and Sterling Professor at Yale known for peptide catalysts for asymmetric, site-selective synthesis.
Stefan Knapp
Stefan Knapp is a structural and chemical biologist, professor of pharmaceutical chemistry at Goethe University Frankfurt since 2015, known for studies of protein kinases and bromodomains.
Stuart L. Schreiber
Stuart L. Schreiber is an American chemical biologist, emeritus professor at Harvard and Broad Institute co-founder, known for coining "molecular glues" and leading Arena BioWorks since 2023.
Virginia W. Cornish
Virginia W. Cornish is the Helena Rubinstein Professor of Chemistry at Columbia University, known for the TMP-tag for labeling proteins, synthetic RNA switches, and yeast biosensors for pathogen detection.
William S. Fiske
William S. Fiske, also recorded as Paul S. Fiske, was an ETH Zürich doctoral researcher who co-authored the 1912 first report of chiral organic molecule catalysis.
Yingming Zhao
Yingming Zhao (赵英明) is a Chinese-American chemical biologist and Louis Block Professor at the University of Chicago, known for discovering histone lysine crotonylation, succinylation, and lactylation.