The 2026 WelchX retreat will take place in Houston, TX from June 8-11, 2026. The retreat’s activities are designed to spur creative, innovative, collaborative ideas that address the most challenging and unexplored issues in bioorganic, medicinal, analytical, and macromolecular chemistry that relate to biological processes; the chemistry of life in its broadest interpretation. Applications are due February 28, 2026.
The Welch Foundation has awarded the 2026 Norman Hackerman Award in Chemical Research to Dr. Sheel C. Dodani, associate professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at The University of Texas at Dallas, for her pioneering contributions to the development of engineered proteins as anion sensors in biology. Congratulations to Dr. Dodani!
Kayla Goforth, a Welch Postdoctoral Fellow of the Life Sciences Research Foundation in the Merlin Lab at Texas A&M University, is helping unravel the mystery of butterfly navigation by probing one of biology’s most elusive senses: magnetoreception, the ability to detect Earth’s magnetic field.
The Welch Foundation has awarded the 2025 Robert A. Welch Award in Chemistry to Stuart L. Schreiber and Peter G. Schultz.
Dr. Schreiber, of Harvard University and Arena BioWorks, is honored for his profound discoveries using chemical probes to understand the chemical machinery of the cell and for developing therapies based on this knowledge. Dr. Schultz, from Scripps Research, is recognized for his pioneering contributions to creating new letters in the alphabet of life, and the leveraging of chemical diversity to discover novel therapeutics and materials.
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