The Miklos Bodanszky Award is presented every two years, during the European Peptide Symposium, in commemoration of Miklos Bodanszky’s contributions to peptide research, to a young scientist who has in the opinion of the General Assembly of the Society made the most outstanding contribution to peptide research in the period of maximum ten years after obtaining the PhD degree. The Award is presented during the EPS Symposium and is sponsored by BCN Peptides.

The 2026 awardee is Professor Anne Conibear Congratulations!

Anne Conibear is an Assistant Professor at TU Wien (Technical University of Vienna, Austria). She is originally from Zimbabwe and completed her B.Sc.(Hons) and M.Sc. in Chemistry at Rhodes University, South Africa. She then moved to the University of Queensland, Australia with an International Postgraduate Research Scholarship for her PhD (2014) with Prof. David Craik. During her PhD, she started working with peptides and focused on the synthesis, structure and activities of cyclic disulfide-rich peptides from mammals, the theta-defensins. In 2014, she was awarded an Interdisciplinary Cancer Research (Marie-Curie co-fund) postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Vienna, Austria, and worked with Prof. Christian Becker on targeted immune-stimulating molecules for cancer therapy. She returned to the University of Queensland in 2019 with a UQ Development Fellowship to start her independent research on the synthesis and structure of posttranslationally modified proteins. In 2022, she took up a tenure-track position in Peptide and Protein Chemistry at TU Wien, Austria. Research in her group focuses on how posttranslational modifications regulate protein structure and biological function of intrinsically disordered proteins and regions.