The Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation and the Board of Trustees awarded the 2016 Heinrich Wieland Prize to

 

Professor Peter G. Schultz

The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA

 

for his fundamental contributions to the biologically inspired synthesis of new molecules and in particular for the expansion of the genetic code.

 

Speakers at the award symposium were:

  • Professor Frances H. Arnold
    California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
    "Innovation by evolution: expanding the enzyme universe"

  • Professor Jason Chin
    MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK
    "Reprogramming the genetic code"

  • Professor Tom Muir
    Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
    "'Houdini' proteins: discovery and applications of ultrafast inteins"

  • Professor Peter G. Schultz
    The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA
    "An expanding genetic code"

  • Professor Peter Seeberger
    Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam, Germany
    Laudation

 

You will find the programme of the award symposium here.

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