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The 2024 National Fresenius Award recipient is Professor Jeffrey Dick, the Richard B. Wetherill Associate Professor of Chemistry at Purdue University. Research in the Dick seeks to understand how chemistry changes under confinement and how nature takes advantage of this … Continue reading →

The 2023 National Fresenius Award recipient is Professor Maxwell Robb of the California Institute of Technology. Research in the Robb group focuses on polymer mechanochemistry, where mechanical force is used to activate chemical transformations in mechanically sensitive molecules known as … Continue reading →

The 2022 National Fresenius Award recipient is Professor Todd Hyster of Cornell University. Research in the Hyster group focuses on developing new biocatalytic methods to address long-standing reactivity and selectivity challenges in organic synthesis. Using protein engineering and directed evolution, … Continue reading →