Featured speakers
Each year, ASBMB’s program features outstanding scientists who are driving biochemistry and molecular biology forward and making future discoveries and applications possible. At the 2026 ASBMB Annual Meeting, you'll hear from leading researchers, innovators, pioneers and emerging scientists across all parts of the field. Learn about novel fundamental findings, translational opportunities, and the career journeys that will inspire current and future generations of researchers.
Keynote speaker
- Samuels Professor and department of biochemistry co-chair, University of Utah
Wes Sundquist was recently named to Time’s list of 100 most influential people of 2025 for his foundational research that helped enable the development of Lenacapavir — a twice-yearly injectable therapy to prevent HIV infection. Lenacapavir will soon be widely available, marking a major step forward in global HIV prevention.
Plenary speakers
- Professor, Baylor College of Medicine; HHMI
- Professor, University of California, San Francisco
- Professor, University of California, Berkeley
Featured speakers
- Rutgers University
- Recipient of the 2026 Herbert Tabor Research Award
- Fox Chase Cancer Center
- Recipient of the 2026 ASBMB DeLano Award for Computational Biosciences
- Duke University
- Recipient of the 2026 ASBMB Sustained Leadership Award
- Pennsylvania State University
- Recipient of the 2026 ASBMB Mildred Cohn Young Investigator Award
- University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
- Recipient of the 2026 ASBMB Ruth Kirschstein Award for Maximizing Access in Science
- St. Mary’s College of Maryland.
- Recipient of the 2026 ASBMB William C. Rose Award for Exemplary Contributions to Education
- University of California, Berkeley
- Recipient of the 2025 Avanti Award in Lipids
- University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
- Recipient of the 2026 Bert and Natalie Vallee Award in Biomedical Science
- University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
- Recipient of the 2025 Earl and Thressa Stadtman Distinguished Scientist
