The Gregori Aminoff Prize rewards documented individual contributions in the field of crystallography, including areas concerned with the dynamics of the formation and determination of crystal structures. The Gregori Aminoff Prize was awarded for the first time in 1979.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences decided to award the Gregori Aminoff Prize in Crystallography 2026 to Professor David Eisenberg, University of California in Los Angeles, USA. He received the Prize for pioneering the study of amyloid proteins’ molecular structure, providing new knowledge about neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s. This may benefit the development of new pharmaceuticals.
Lectures by the laureate and invited speakers.
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Programme
13:00
Welcome remarks
13:10
Small molecules that disassemble pathological fibrils of tau and alpha-synuclein associated with Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases
Aminoff Prize Laureate David S. Eisenberg, Professor at Departments of Biological Chemistry and Chemistry & Biochemistry; Molecular Biology Institute, UCLA.
14:05
α-Synuclein Fibrils Revisited: Structure and Dynamics of Flanking Regions
Jean Baum, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rutgers University, USA.
14:50
Amyloid Polymorphism: From Test Tubes to Tissues
Sheena E. Radford, Astbury Professor of Biophysics, Royal Society Research Professor at the Astbury Centre for Structural and Molecular Biology, University of Leeds.
15:35
Coffee break
16:00
Amyloids: from the origin to the end of life
Roland Riek, Professor at the Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
16:45
Title TBA
Tuomas Knowles, Professor of Physical Chemistry and Biophysics at the Department of Chemistry and at the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge, UK.
17:30
Summary and end of Symposium
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