Celebrating award winners

In this issue of The Biochemist, we are celebrating the 20th anniversaries 2002 Nobel Prizes. Prize in physiology or medicine was jointly awarded to Sydney Brenner, H. Robert Horvitz and John E. Sulston ‘for their discoveries concerning genetic regulation organ development programmed cell death’. issue, explore fertilization how nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans can be used as a model system, work that descends from findings Brenner.The chemistry methods for identification structure analyses biological macromolecules’. Half B. Fenn Koichi Tanaka soft desorption ionisation mass spectrometric macromolecules’ other half Kurt Wüthrich his nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy determining three-dimensional macromolecules solution’. spectroscopy, with feature articles on matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time flight (MALDI-TOF) electrospray Trost Emmott labs, respectively.We also celebrate prizes awards offered by Biochemical Society issue. You read about awardees Krebs Memorial scholarship, which year has been expanded due pandemic three outstanding PhD students. Sir Hans Krebs, who pioneer cellular respiration, published citric acid cycle Journal, scholarship started 1982. himself won 1953.This holds full written entries winners 2022 Science Communication – I strongly encourage you fantastic creative full. involved judging competition, confirm all saw were incredibly impressive. We direct where find media number think might useful teaching biochemistry. an education winner Teaching Excellence Award, Barry Ryan (TU Dublin), making more equitable undergraduate studies.Finally, interview new President, Professor Dame Julia Goodfellow, her term July 2022. out Julia’s background, what drew president role she wants achieve over course term.Our next will ‘Debunking urban myths false science’ our first 2023 ‘Protein Engineering’ if interested contributing article, get touch us.