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
Wesley Sundquist
- Samuels Professor and department of biochemistry co-chair, University of Utah
Plenary speakers
Racing the clock: Molecular mechanisms of aging
Meng Wang
- Professor, Baylor College of Medicine; HHMI
I, biochemist: Automation & AI in the lab
Tanja Kortemme
- Professor, University of California, San Francisco
Is anyone there?: Information transfer in biology from proteins to organisms
Eric Betzig
- Professor, University of California, Berkeley
Featured speakers
Roland L. Dunbrack, Jr.
- Fox Chase Cancer Center
- Recipient of the 2026 ASBMB DeLano Award for Computational Biosciences
Joseph A. Cotruvo, Jr.
- Pennsylvania State University
- Recipient of the 2026 ASBMB Mildred Cohn Young Investigator Award
Donita C. Brady
- University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
- Recipient of the 2026 ASBMB Ruth Kirschstein Award for Maximizing Access in Science
Pamela Mertz
- St. Mary’s College of Maryland.
- Recipient of the 2026 ASBMB William C. Rose Award for Exemplary Contributions to Education
Roger J. Davis
- University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
- Recipient of the 2026 Bert and Natalie Vallee Award in Biomedical Science
Kim Orth
- University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
- Recipient of the 2025 Earl and Thressa Stadtman Distinguished Scientist
