IUBMB Jubilee Award Lecturers

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Anne Bertolotti, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK
“Boosting protein quality control in neurodegenerative diseases: from the bench to the clinic”

Given at the 49th FEBS Congress on Bridging Continents to Advance Life Science for her outstanding contribution in protein quality control mechanisms.

Istanbul, Turkey | 5-9 July 2025

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Kevan Shokat, University of California San Francisco, USA
“Chemical Genetic Tools for Protein Kinases and GTPases”

Given at the IUBMB Focused meeting on “The Emerging roles of (pseudo)kinases in signal transduction for his outstanding contribution in using novel tools and approaches to dissect the functions and substrates of protein kinases.

Queenstown, New Zealand | 18-22 August 2025

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Michael Elowitz, California Institute of Technology & HHMI, USA
“Synthetic biological circuits: revealing and healing multicellular systems”

Given at the IV Molecular Biosystems Conference on Eukaryotic Gene Regulation & Functional Genomics for his outstanding contributions to the fields of synthetic biology and systems biology.

Puerto Varas, Chile | 29 September – 3 October 2025

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Emmanuelle Charpentier, Max Planck Society, Germany
“From Petri Dish to Practice: The CRISPR-Cas9’s Journey”

To be presented at the IUBMB-FASBMB-SASBMB Congress 2027 for her outstanding contributions in the discovery of the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, CRISPR therapeutics and ERS Genomics and for developing the CRISPR-Cas genome editing technology.

Cape Town, South Africa | 19-23 September 2027

Past IUBMB Jubilee Award Lecturers since 2022   |   Past IUBMB Jubilee Lecturers 2001 – 2021