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Chemical biology of post-translational modifications

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Chunaram Choudhary

Chunaram Choudhary is a Danish chemical biologist and professor at the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research in Copenhagen, known for mapping protein modifications by mass spectrometry.

Cynthia J. Burrows

Cynthia J. Burrows is an American nucleic acid chemist and Distinguished Professor at the University of Utah, known for her work on guanine oxidation in DNA and nanopore sequencing.

Ehud Keinan

Ehud Keinan is an Israeli organic chemist, professor at the Technion, known for catalytic-antibody chemistry including a 1995 Nature paper, and IUPAC's president since 2024.

Gerald R. Crabtree

Gerald R. Crabtree is a Stanford professor of pathology and developmental biology, a National Academy of Sciences member known for the calcineurin–NFAT pathway, BAF chromatin remodeling complexes in cancer, and chemically induced proximity.

Hening Lin

Hening Lin is a chemical biologist and Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator who joined the University of Chicago in 2024, known for establishing lysine succinylation and malonylation as regulated protein modifications.

John T. Groves

John T. Groves is a bioorganic and bioinorganic chemist who has held the Hugh Stott Taylor Chair at Princeton since 1985, known for the oxygen rebound mechanism and C-H fluorination.

Laura L. Kiessling

Laura L. Kiessling is an American chemical biologist who studies how cells use carbohydrate coats, called glycans, to signal; she has been the Novartis Professor of Chemistry at MIT since 2017.

Marcey L. Waters

Marcey L. Waters is a bioorganic chemist at UNC Chapel Hill who studies molecular recognition of histone modifications and won the 2023 Vincent du Vigneaud Award.

Michael D. Burkart

Michael D. Burkart is an American chemical biologist at UC San Diego who studies fatty acid, polyketide, and non-ribosomal peptide synthases and co-founded four biotech companies.

Mohammad R. Seyedsayamdost

Mohammad R. Seyedsayamdost, known as Mo, is an Iranian-born biological chemist at Princeton University known for discovering the roseobacticide algaecides and for developing methods that activate silent biosynthetic gene clusters.

Nicholas V. Hud

Nicholas V. Hud is a biophysicist and origins-of-life chemist at Georgia Tech, where he joined the faculty in 1999 and directed the NSF/NASA Center for Chemical Evolution.

Stefan Kubicek

Stefan Kubicek (born 1978 in Vienna) is an Austrian chemical biologist who leads a chemical epigenetics group at CeMM in Vienna, studying small molecules that control cellular identity.

Timothy A. Mitchison

Timothy A. Mitchison, known as Tim Mitchison, is a British-born cell biologist who co-discovered microtubule dynamic instability in 1984 and is a systems biology professor at Harvard Medical School.