Lila M. Gierasch
Academician, International Academy of Innovation Sciences
Professor,University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Election motivation
For fundamental contributions to the relationship between amino acid sequence and the preferred conformations of peptides and proteins using all methods of circular dichroism, fluorescence, and nuclear magnetic resonance.
Field of research
Biochemistry
Main Honors
A.P. Sloan Fellowship
Vincent du Vigneaud Award for Young Investigators in Peptide Chemistry
Guggenheim Fellowship
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
D.Sc. honoris causa, Mount Holyoke College
Garvan-Olin Medal, American Chemical Society
NIH Director’s Pioneer Award
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Award, The Protein Society
Fellow, Biophysical Society
Mildred Cohn Award, ASBMB
Elected Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Outstanding Investigator Grant (Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA)),National Institute of General Medical Sciences, NIH
Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Biological Chemistry
American Chemical Society Ralph F. Hirschmann Award in Peptide Chemistry
Member, National Academy of Science.
Academician, International Academy of Innovation Sciences