The award consists of a symposium in association with the Division of Biological Chemistry (BIOL) of the American Chemical Society (ACS) at the ACS Spring meeting the year following the award, a dinner in recognition of the recipient at the meeting, and travel expenses of up to $1,000 to the meeting; along with an invitation to write a Review for Biopolymers and $5,000.

Inaugurated in 2007 in honor of the Biopolymers Founding Editor, the Murray Goodman Memorial Prize recognizes outstanding accomplishments in one or more of the areas of biochemistry, biophysical chemistry, biophysics or chemical biology.

There are no restrictions on age or membership affiliation for this award.

Nominations can be submitted via email. More information will be posted as it becomes available for the upcoming award year.

2023: Joel P. Schneider, NCI, National Institutes of Health

2022: Ronald T. Raines, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2021: G. Marius Clore, NIDDK, National Institutes of Health

2020: No award.

2019: Eric Kool, Stanford University

2018: David N. Beratan, Duke University

2017: William G. DeGrado, University of California, San Francisco

2016: Jennifer A. Doudna, University of California, Berkeley

2015: Joan A. Steitz, Yale University

2014: Steven G. Boxer, Stanford University

2013: Laura Kiessling, University of Wisconsin-Madison

2012: Jeffery W. Kelly, The Scripps Research Institute

2011: Dennis A. Dougherty, California Institute of Technology

2010: JoAnne Stubbe, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2009: Harold Scheraga, Cornell University

2008: Michael Marletta, University of California, Berkeley

2007: Christopher T. Walsh, Harvard Medical School