Merrifield du Vigneaud Goodman Makineni Early Career Hirschmann

R. Bruce Merrifield Award

From 1977 to 1995, this was The Alan E. Pierce Award, sponsored by the Pierce Chemical Company. The Merrifield Award was established in 1997 by an endowment from Rao Makineni. The Merrifield Award, presented at the biennial symposia, recognizes the lifetime achievement of a peptide scientist, whose work exemplifies the highest level of scientific creativity.

Learn more: Read about Bruce Merrifield and the history of this award

Recipients

2020s

2025 Philip E. Dawson
Department of Chemistry at Scripps Research, La Jolla, CA
2023 Sam Gellman
University of Wisconsin - Madison
2021 Padmanabhan Balaram
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

2010s

2019 Lila Gierasch
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
2017 Robert Hodges
University of Colorado at Denver
2017 Charles Deber
University of Toronto, Hospital for Sick Children
2015 Horst Kessler
TU München Institute for Advanced Study
2013 James P. Tam
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
2011 Richard DiMarchi
Indiana University

2000s

2009 Stephen B.H. Kent
University of Chicago
2007 Isabella Karle
Naval Research Laboratory
2005 Richard A. Houghten
Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular Studies
2001 Garland R. Marshall
Washington University Medical School, St. Louis

1990s

1999 Daniel H. Rich
University of Wisconsin, Madison
1997 Shumpei Sakakibara
Peptide Institute, Inc.
1995 John M. Stewart
University of Colorado at Denver
1993 Victor J. Hruby
University of Arizona
1991 Daniel F. Veber
Merck, Sharp & Dohme

1980s

1989 Murray Goodman
University of California at San Diego
1988 William F. DeGrado
DuPont Central Research
1987 Cho Hao Li
University of California at 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

1970s

1979 Bruce Merrifield
The Rockefeller University
1977 Miklos Bodanszky
Case Western Reserve University