Professor Amy Rosenzweig awarded the 2021 Alfred Bader Award in Bioinorganic or Bioorganic Chemistry

Amy Rosenzweig

Amy Rosenzweig, the Weinberg Family Distinguished Professor of Life Sciences and Professor of Molecular Biosciences and Chemistry, was awarded the 2021 Alfred Bader Award in Bioinorganic or Bioorganic Chemistry. This ACS national award is sponsored by Alfred R. Bader Fund and the George and Christine Sosnovsky Fund “to recognize outstanding contributions to bioorganic or bioinorganic chemistry.”

Rosenzweig will be honored at an awards ceremony at the ACS Spring National Meeting.

In 2017, Rosenzweig was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Rosenzweig’s numerous honors include being elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2014) and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2007). Rosenzweig was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2003.

Rosenzweig received the Royal Society of Chemistry Joseph Chatt Award (2014), the American Chemical Society Nobel Laureate Signature Award for Graduate Education (2006), and an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Amherst College (2005).

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