Best Paper Award Winners

Submit your research within Journal of Peptide Science today, and once accepted you are automatically entered into the next competition, with a chance to win €2,000.

How to Submit

The Award is for Research Articles published within Journal of Peptide Science. Once your submitted article is accepted, it participates automatically in the competition. Each article will stay for two years in the competition and has therefore two chances to win the Award.

How is the Award Selected

At the end of August each year a shortlist of 10 articles will be prepared based on the highest numbers of citations and downloads from all Research Articles published in the two previous years. Each member of the Editorial Board will then choose from the shortlist their three preferred publications and the Research Article with the highest number of nominations will be the Award Winner. General rules: An article can only win the Award once. The Award will be sent to the corresponding author. Publications from the research groups of the Editorial and Advisory Boards will be excluded from the Award. The decision of the Editorial Board is final and there will be no correspondence about the Award. The Winners will be addressed directly, and the Award will be announced in Journal of Peptide Science online and in print and also other media if appropriate.

Award Winners

Best Paper Award Winner 2024

Improving the stability of thiol-maleimide bioconjugates via the formation of a thiazine structure
Isaiah N. Gober, Rahul Sharan and Matteo Villain

Best Paper – Honorable Mention 2024

Synergistic effects of short peptides and antibiotics against bacterial and fungal strains
Lalita Sharma and Gopal Singh Bisht

Best Paper Award Winner 2023

Heterochiral tetrapeptide self-assembly into hydrogel biomaterials for hydrolase mimicry
Marina Kurbasic, Ana M. Garcia, Simone Viada, Silvia Marchesan

Best Paper Award Winner 2022

Effects of N-terminal modifications on the stability of antimicrobial peptide SAMP-A4 analogues against protease degradation
Ruifang Li, Songlin He, Kedong Yin, Beibei Zhang, Yanjie Yi, Meng Zhang, Nanqi Pei, Liang Huang

Best Paper Award Winner 2021

Anticandidal activity of synthetic peptides: Mechanism of action revealed by scanning electron and fluorescence microscopies and synergism effect with nystatin
Patrícia G. Lima, Pedro F. N. Souza, Cleverson D. T. Freitas, Jose T. A. Oliveira, Lucas P. Dias, João X. S. Neto, Ilka M. Vasconcelos, José L. S. Lopes, Daniele O. B. Sousa

Best Paper Award Winner 2020

A stable meta‐carborane enables the generation of boron‐rich peptide agonists targeting the ghrelin receptor
Dennis J. Worm, Sylvia Els‐Heindl, Martin Kellert, Robert Kuhnert, Stefan Saretz, Johannes Koebberling, Bernd Riedl, Evamarie Hey‐Hawkins, Annette G. Beck‐Sickinger

Best Paper Award Winner 2019

Synthesis of relaxin‐2 and insulin‐like peptide 5 enabled by novel tethering and traceless chemical excision
Kishore Thalluri, Binbin Kou, Xu Yang, Alexander N. Zaykov, John P. Mayer, Vasily M. Gelfanov, Fa Liu and Richard D. DiMarchi

Best Paper Award Winner 2018

Semi‐synthesis of a tag‐free O‐GlcNAcylated tau protein by sequential chemoselective ligation
Sergej Schwagerus, Oliver Reimann, Clement Despres, Caroline Smet‐Nocca and Christian P. R. Hackenberger

Best Paper Award Winner 2017

Cystine-knot peptides targeting cancer-relevant human cytotoxic T lymphocyte-associated antigen 4 (CTLA-4)
Franziska Maaß, Joycelyn Wüstehube-Lausch, Stephan Dickgießer, Bernhard Valldorf, Michael Reinwarth, Hans-Ulrich Schmoldt, Matin Daneschdar, Olga Avrutina, Ugur Sahin and Harald Kolmar

Best Paper Award Winner 2016

Suppressive immune response of poly-(sarcosine) chains in peptide-nanosheets in contrast to polymeric micelles
Eri Hara, Motoki Ueda, Cheol Joo Kim, Akira Makino, Isao Hara, Eiichi Ozeki and Shunsaku Kimura

Best Paper Award Winner 2015

Novel cleavable cell-penetrating peptide–drug conjugates: synthesis and characterization
Marco Lelle, Stefanie U. Frick, Kerstin Steinbrink and Kalina Peneva

Best Paper Award Winner 2014

Restoration of leptin responsiveness in diet-induced obese mice using an optimized leptin analog in combination with exendin-4 or FGF21
Jason Pinkstaff, Matthias Tschöp, Timo D. Müller, Lorraine M. Sullivan, Kirk Habegger, Chun-Xia Yi, Dhiraj Kabra, Erin Grant, Nickki Ottaway, Radha Krishna, Jenna Holland, Jazzminn Hembree, Diego Perez-Tilve, Paul T. Pfluger, Michael J. DeGuzman, Marc E. Siladi, Vadim S. Kraynov, Douglas W. Axelrod, Richard DiMarchi

Best Paper Award Winner 2013

Charge inversion at position 68 of the glucagon and glucagon-like peptide-1 receptors supports selectivity in hormone action
Jonathan W. Day, Pengyun Li, James T. Patterson, Joe Chabenne, Maria DiMarchi Chabenne, Vasily M. Gelfanov and Richard D. DiMarchi

Best Paper Award Winner 2012

Native chemical ligation of hydrophobic peptides in organic solvents
Marc Dittmann, Jörg Sauermann, Ralf Seidel, Wolfgang Zimmermann and Martin Engelhard

Best Paper Award Winner 2011

Different mechanisms of action of antimicrobial peptides: insights from fluorescence spectroscopy experiments and molecular dynamics simulations
Lorenzo Stella, Gianfranco Bocchinfuso, Antonio Palleschi, Barbara Orioni, Giacinto Grande, Fernando Formaggio, Claudio Toniolo, Yoonkyung Park and Kyung-Soo Hahm

Best Paper Award Winner 2010

Distance dependence of long-range electron transfer through helical peptides
Minako Kai, Kazuki Takeda, Tomoyuki Morita and Shunsaku Kimura