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Arvinas Announces Winner of the 2022 Arvinas Early Career Researcher Award
Katherine Donovan, Ph.D. of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has been awarded a $25,000 monetary prize recognizing her innovation in the field of targeted
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[{"type":"text","content":"Katherine Donovan, Ph.D. of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has been awarded a $25,000 monetary prize recognizing her innovation in the field of targeted protein degradation\nNEW HAVEN, Conn., Oct. 27, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Arvinas, Inc. (Nasdaq: ARVN), a clinical-stage biotechnology company creating a new class of drugs based on targeted protein degradation (TPD), announced Katherine Donovan, Ph.D. of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Harvard Medical School as the winner of the 2022 Arvinas Early Career Research Award last night at the 5th Annual Targeted Protein Degradation Summit in Boston. This award marks twenty years since Arvinas’ founder Craig Crews and his collaborators published the first paper on protein degradation technology and aims to recognize the efforts of up-and-coming researchers bringing innovation, new approaches, and creative thinking toward advancing the field of targeted protein degradation. Dr. Donovan received a monetary award of $25,000 to honor her leadership, innovation, and key scientific contributions to the field of TPD. Dr. Donovan has brought the TPD community together to share cutting-edge scientific advances, research tools to assess degradability across important biological targets classes, and professional networking to foster interactions across academia and biotech. “Arvinas is committed to supporting the work of researchers advancing the field of TPD around the world, and we’re thrilled to recognize Dr. Donovan and her contributions as our Arvinas Early Career Research Award winner,” said John Houston, Ph.D., President and Chief Executive Officer at Arvinas. “Not only has Dr. Donovan made valuable strides toward increasing our understanding of the potential applications of targeted protein degraders, but her efforts to make TPD information and data accessible to the entire community was a massive undertaking, and its benefits will be recognized by the TPD community for years to come.” In 2018, Dr. Donovan, who received her Ph.D. from the University of Canterbury, developed a quantitative mass spectrometry-based global expression analysis method to identify targets of degraders, and focused her attention on human embryonic stem cells as the model system. Following her efforts to map the degradable proteome and passion for thorough degrader mapping, Dr. Donovan developed a pipeline that...