"John D. Sutherland, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, will receive the 2025 NAS Award in Early Earth and Life Studies – Stanley Miller Medal. John's pioneering work on prebiotic chemical pathways and geochemical scenarios provides fresh insight into...
Dear Origins Community, We are thrilled to share that Origins Faculty member, Gary Ruvkun, receives the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for Discovery of microRNA. Gary shares this award with Victor Ambros (UMass Medical) for elucidating a...
" Cracking Chirality," a twelve-minute film from Chemistry Shorts™, explores how the essential molecules of life, like DNA, RNA, and proteins, acquired their homochiral structures and how magnetic rocks at the bottom of a prebiotic lake may have set the...
Origins Graduate Consortium member, Furkan Ozturk, has been awarded the 2024 Gertrude and Maurice Goldhaber Prize. The Gertrude and Maurice Goldhaber Prize is awarded to recognize the most outstanding experimental and theoretical graduate students in the...
The Origins of Life Inititative is thrilled to announce our first Kavli-Laukien Postdoctoral Fellows, Jenny Calahan and Xavier Portillo. Jenny and Xavier have joined a community of faculty, senior researchers, graduate students, and undergraduates...
Origins Graduate Student S. Furkan Ozturk publishes a recent article surrounding "Breakthrough’ could explain why life molecules are left- or right-handed". To read more please visit the following site. Papers cited in the news: Ozturk, S. Furkan, Liu...
"Starting from a homogeneous blend of non-biochemistry related substances, we use light to start a Polymerization Induced Self-Assembly (PISA) reaction that triggers the boot-up of micron scale chemical systems. After forming, these grow, move, implode...
Congratulations to Origins Faculty member Ann Pearson, who has been named the PVK Professor of Arts and Sciences. This professorship, established through the generous gift of Peter Kwok in honor of the life work of William R. Fitzsimmons, who has served...
The Origins of Life Initiative at Harvard University and partner centers at University of Chicago, ETH-Zurich, and University of Cambridge intend to create the Origins Federation, as announced today at the AAAS Meeting in Washington DC by Didier Queloz...
Kavli-Laukien Postdoctoral Fellowships at the Harvard Origins of Life Initiative Applications are invited to the new Kavli-Laukien Postdoctoral Fellowships at the Origins of Life Initiative at Harvard University. The Kavli-Laukien Fellowship program...
Congratulations to Origins Faculty member George Whitesides on his 2022 Kavali Prize in Nanoscience, read more here.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has just announced that Origins faculty member, Andrew Knoll, will receive the 2022 Crafoord Prize in April, awarded this year for Geosciences. To read more please visit CNN and the Crafoord Prize site.
