Professor Samuel Stupp, of the Department of Chemistry, will receive the 2022 American Chemical Society Ralph F. Hirschmann Award in Peptide Chemistry.
The Hirschmann Award, established in 1988, recognizes outstanding research achievements in the chemistry, biochemistry, and biophysics of peptides. The award is named after Ralph Hirschmann, who pioneered techniques for the chemical synthesis of peptides. Stupp was selected “for his fundamental and groundbreaking work on the supramolecular chemistry of peptide amphiphiles and on their remarkable functionality in biological regeneration.”
Stupp’s research integrates chemistry with materials science, biology, and medicine. His overarching interest is in the development of self-assembling organic materials, with a focus on functions relevant to energy and medicine. He has successfully developed bioactive materials called peptide amphiphiles that can be used in therapies for regenerative medicine. These biomaterials activate the signals necessary to initiate the regeneration of tissues such as muscle, blood vessels, bone, cartilage, and the spinal cord.
Stupp is Board of Trustees Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Chemistry, Medicine, and Biomedical Engineering at Northwestern, where he directs the Simpson Querrey Institute and its affiliated research center, the Center for Regenerative Nanomedicine. Stupp is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Spanish Royal Academy and the National Academy of Inventors, and a fellow of the American Physical Society, the Materials Research Society and the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Read more about Stupp here.