Explore both current and past journal lectureships and awards from ACS Publications' Biological and Medicinal Chemistry portfolios—and submit your nominations for 2025!
ACS Publications journal lectureships and awards recognize a mix of early career and established investigators who have made significant contributions to research in their fields.
We invite you to explore current and past awards in Biological and Medicinal Chemistry and submit your own nominations for 2025.
ACS Chemical Biology Young Investigator Award
The ACS Chemical Biology Young Investigator Award is a collaboration between ACS Chemical Biology and the ACS Division of Biological Chemistry recognizing an outstanding young investigator conducting chemical biology research.
To make a nomination, please complete the form below by July 1, 2024, including a short paragraph of nomination remarks—500 words or less—describing the nominee's contribution to the field of Chemical Biology.
Molecular Pharmaceutics Early Career Best Paper Award
Sponsored by Molecular Pharmaceutics, this award will be presented to three (3) early career scientists, one each from three major geographic regions: the Americas, Europe/the Middle East/Africa, and Asia-Pacific. Awardees will be early career authors (first and/or corresponding) of a research article published in Molecular Pharmaceutics in October 2023 to the end of June 2024.
To make a nomination, please complete the form below by July 1, 2024, including a short paragraph of nomination remarks—500 words or less—describing the significance of the paper and the researchers' contribution.
ACS Chemical Biology Lectureship Award
Nominations for the 2025 award will open in Fall 2024—stay tuned for updates.
Sponsored by ACS Chemical Biology and the ACS Division of Biological Chemistry, this award honors an individual whose contributions have had a major impact on scientific research in the area of chemical biology.
ACS Infectious Diseases Young Investigator Award
Nominations for the 2025 award will open in Fall 2024—stay tuned for updates.
Sponsored by ACS Infectious Diseases and the ACS Division of Biological Chemistry, these awards recognize three outstanding young investigators in the field of infectious diseases.
ACS Synthetic Biology Young Innovator Award
Nominations for the 2025 award will open in Fall 2024—stay tuned for updates.
Sponsored by ACS Synthetic Biology and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, this award honors the contributions of a young scientist who has made a major impact on synthetic biology and/or related fields.
Biochemistry Gordon Hammes Lectureship Award
Nominations for the 2025 award will open in Fall 2024—stay tuned for updates.
Sponsored by Biochemistry and the ACS Division of Biological Chemistry, this award recognizes and honors an individual whose scientific contributions have had a major impact on research across all biological chemistry.
Biochemistry Gordon Hammes Scholar Award
Nominations for the 2025 award will open in Fall 2024—stay tuned for updates.
Sponsored by Biochemistry and the ACS Division of Biological Chemistry, this award honors the young scientists responsible for the very best papers published in Biochemistry.
Bioconjugate Chemistry Lectureship Award
Nominations for the 2025 award will open in Fall 2024—stay tuned for updates.
Sponsored by Bioconjugate Chemistry and the Division of Polymeric Materials Science and Engineering (PMSE), this award recognizes an outstanding researcher for important recent advances in interfacing synthetic and biological systems.
Chemical Research in Toxicology Young Investigator Award
Nominations for the 2025 award will open in Fall 2024—stay tuned for updates.
Sponsored by Chemical Research in Toxicology and the ACS Division of Chemical Toxicology, this award honors the contributions of an early-career individual who has had a major impact on research in chemical toxicology or a related field.
Philip S. Portoghese Medicinal Chemistry Lectureship
Nominations for the 2025 award will open in Fall 2024—stay tuned for updates.
Sponsored by Journal of Medicinal Chemistry and the ACS Division of Medicinal Chemistry, this award is named for Phil Portoghese, editor-in-chief of the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry from 1972 to 2011. Each year, this award honors the contributions of an individual who has had a major impact on medicinal chemistry research.