The Leonidas Zervas Award is presented in commemoration of his outstanding contributions to peptide science. The award is given to the scientist who has made the most outstanding contributions to the chemistry, biochemistry and/or biology of peptides in the five years preceding the date of selection, and is sponsored by the donation of Dr. Rao Makineni.
The 2016 awardee is Christian F.W. Becker. Congratulations!
The 2016 awardee is Prof. Christian F.W. Becker
Prof. Christian F.W. Becker, University of Vienna, Austria, is recognized for his major contributions to the development of improved methods for the total chemical synthesis and semisynthesis of complex modified proteins and their application to mechanistic and structural biological questions. The boundaries of chemical protein synthesis were extended by his group by generating the first membrane-embedded enzyme as well as by providing access to different membrane-attached proteins such as the Prion protein.
Recently he added the synthesis and in vitro study of highly posttranslationally modified silaffin peptides and their use for mild encapsulation of proteins via biomimetic silica precipitation to his research interests. In his latest work he has facilitated access to complex glycosylated peptides by a new chemoenzymatic approach. Christian Becker has published more than 75 papers, reviews, book chapters and patents.
The Leonidas Zervas Award will be presented at the Opening Ceremony (Sunday, September 4, 16:30-19:00, Auditorium Maximum, Paulinum) of the 34th European Peptide Symposium, Leipzig, Germany.
Recipients of the Leonidas Zervas Award
2014 | Miguel Castanho & Philip Dawson (shared) University of Lisbon, Portugal & The Scripps Research Institute, USA |
2012 | Knud J. Jensen University of Copenhagen, Denmark |
2010 | Helma Wennemers University of Basel, Switzerland |
2008 | Anna Maria Papini University of Florence, Italy |
2006 | Carlos García-Echeverría Novartis Institute for BioMedical Research, Basel, Switzerland |
2004 | Helene Gras-Masse Institut Pasteur de Lille, France |
2002 | Thomas W. Muir Rockefeller University, New York, USA |
2000 | Antonello Pessi Instituto di Ricerche di Biologica Moleculare P. Angeletti, Rome, Italy |
1998 | Annette G. Beck-Sickinger ETH Zürich, Switzerland |
1996 | Morten Meldal Carlsberg Laboratory, Valby, Denmark |
1994 |
Ernest Giralt & Fernando Albericio (shared) University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain |
1992 | Günther Jung University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany |
1990 | Michal Lebl & Jean Martinez (shared) Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Prague & CNRS, Montpellier, France |
1988 | Alex Eberle University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland |