Team eDyNAmiC is delighted to offer hearty congratulations to one of our team members.
Work Package 7 Lead, Dr. Benjamin Cravatt, was named the 2024 Heinrich Wieland Laureate. Ben developed a new method to identify disease-causing proteins and drugs targeting those proteins. The technology called Activity-based Protein Profiling, or ABPP for short, allows measurement of the chemical activity of individual proteins in the complex mixture of a cell or even an entire organism. Indeed, ABPP is a cornerstone of WP7, allowing us to accelerate the discovery of ligands for historically undruggable proteins, identifying targets-of-interest for chemical probe and ultimately drug discovery.
The international Heinrich Wieland Prize honours distinguished scientists for their outstanding research on biologically active molecules and systems in the fields of chemistry, biochemistry, and physiology as well as their clinical importance. The prize is endowed with 250,000 euros by the Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation and named after Heinrich Wieland (1877-1957), Nobel Laureate in Chemistry in 1927.
The Heinrich Wieland Prize is one of the most prestigious international science prizes presented in Germany. Since 1964, it has been awarded yearly to outstanding scientists who have significantly advanced their field. The awardees are rigorously selected by the prize’s scientific Board of Trustees from the nominations generated through an open call. Among the former awardees are subsequent Nobel Laureates Michael Brown, Joseph Goldstein, Bengt Samuelsson, James Rothman, and Carolyn Bertozzi.
