ASBMB–Merck Award
The ASBMB–Merck Award recognizes outstanding contributions to research in biochemistry and molecular biology.
Nominations must originate with society members, but the nominees need not be ASBMB members.
The award consists of a plaque, $5,000, and expenses and transportation to the ASBMB annual meeting to present a lecture.
Recipients

2023
- Squire Booker








2015
- Zhijian James Chen

2014
- Benjamin F. Cravatt

2013
- Vivek Malhotra

2012
- Xiadong Wang

2011
- Christine Guthrie

2010
- James A. Wells

2009
- John Kuriyan

2008
- David Allis

2007
- Judith P. Klinman

2006
- Richard W. Hanson

2005
- Jack E. Dixon

2004
- Jack L. Strominger

2003
- Stephen J. Benkovic


2002
- Roger Kornberg & Robert G. Roeder


2001
- Avram Hershko & Alexander J. Varshavsky

2000
- Peter H. von Hippel

1999
- Robert L. Baldwin

1998
- Alexander Rich

1997
- Paul C. Zamecnik

1996
- Charles C. Richardson

1995
- Robert Lehman

1994
- Lester J. Reed

1993
- William P. Jencks

1992
- Charles Tanford

1991
- Daniel E. Koshland

1990
- Wallace Cleland

1989
- Michael G. Rossman

1988
- Frederic M. Richards

1987
- Gary Felsenfeld

1986
- Howard K. Schachman

1985
- Martin Gellert

1984
- Gilbert Ashwell

1983
- Earl R. Stadtman

1982
- Martin D. Kamen

1981
- Bernard L. Horecker