ASBMB Mildred Cohn Young Investigator Award
Nominations for the 2026 ASBMB Annual Awards will open in April.
The ASBMB Mildred Cohn Young Investigator Award recognizes outstanding research contributions to biochemistry and molecular biology. The recipient must have no more than 15 years of experience since receiving a Ph.D. and/or M.D. The award is given every other year, alternating with the Earl and Thressa Stadtman Young Scholar Award.
Both nominees and nominators must be ASBMB members.
The award consists of a plaque, $5,000 and travel expenses to present a lecture at the ASBMB annual meeting.
In 2023, the Mildred Cohn Award in Biological Chemistry and the ASBMB Young Investigator Award were combined to create the ASBMB Mildred Cohn Young Investigator Award.
Recipients
ASBMB Young Investigator Award recipients
2015
- Erica Ollmann Saphire
2014
- Samie R. Jaffrey
2013
- Shu-ou Shan
2012
- Kim Orth
2011
- Job Dekker
2010
- John J. G. Tesmer
2009
- Phillip D. Zamore
2008
- Scott A. Strobel
2007
- Christopher B. Burge
2006
- James M. Berger
2005
- Brian Strahl
2004
- Pehr A. B. Harbury
2003
- Catherine Dreenan
2002
- John D. York
2001
- Stephen P. Bell
2000
- Xiadong Wang
1999
- Kun-Liang Guan
1998
- Tania A. Baker
1997
- Carol Greider
1996
- Thomas V. O’Halloran
1995
- Richard Ebright
1994
- John Kuriyan
1993
- Stanley Fields
1992
- Carl Wu
1991
- Douglas A. Melton
Mildred Cohn Award in Biological Chemistry recipients
2023
- Anne Kenworthy
2015
- Judith P. Klinman
2014
- Lila Gierasch
2013
- Jennifer A. Doudna