Leonardo Betancurt Receives the 2024 Founders Award

Leonardo (Leo) Betancurt is the recipient of the 2024 Founders Award. He is a Ph.D. Candidate jointly researching with Kelly Zatopek’s lab at New England Biolabs and Ludovic Sauguet’s lab at Institut Pasteur and gave his talk, “Proofreading mechanism for family D DNA polymerases” at the 2024 Enzyme Mechanisms Conference in Naples, FL.

Established in 2008, the Founders Award was created to support the participation of students and/or postdocs at the Winter Enzyme Mechanisms Conference (EMC). The award consists of travel support up to $2,000 for one graduate student or postdoc to attend the biannual Winter EMC and is administered by the Division of Biological Chemistry (DBC) of the American Chemical Society (ACS).

Please join us in congratulating Leo for this outstanding achievement!

Betancurt recieves his award during a ceremony at the 2024 Enzyme Mechanisms Conference