Nucleic Acids Award lectures sponsored by Merck and Co. Inc.

This lecture series was established in 1998 to honour world-renowned scientists who have made outstanding contributions in the areas of chemistry and/or biochemistry of nucleic acids. 

Award lectures are usually given annually in conjunction with conferences supported by the Nucleic Acids Group. The Award lecture series is generously sponsored by Merck and Co. Inc.

• 2010 - Professor Reinhard Lührmann (Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany) at NACON VIII, which was held at The Edge, Sheffield, UK, from 12 - 16 September 2010.

• 2009 - Professor Susan Gasser (Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland) at the BACR/EACR Symposium on Chromatin and Cancer, which was held at Churchill College, Cambridge, UK, from 6 - 8 July 2009.

• 2008 - Professor Martin Gellert (NIDDK, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA) at the Topo2008 conference, John Innes Centre, Norwich, July 20 - 24, 2008.

• 2007 - Professor Jennifer Doudna (University of California, Berkeley) at the NACON VII conference, University of Sheffield, April 1 - 5, 2007.

• 2006 - Professor Ignacio Tinoco (University of California, Berkeley, USA ) at the Frontiers in Chemical Biology: Single Molecules conference in Cambridge, March 2006.

• 2005 - Professor Greg Verdine (Harvard University) at the Responses to DNA Damage conference in Sussex, September 2005.