June 28, 2025 (Boulder, CO) - The Boulder Peptide Society is pleased to announce that Dr. Anne Conibear, TU Wien (Technical University of Vienna, Austria), has received the Young Investigator Award for 2025. The Young Investigator Award was established in 2016 to support promising peptide scientists early in their career.
Anne Conibear is an Assistant Professor at TU Wien (Technical University of Vienna, Austria). She is originally from Zimbabwe and completed her B.Sc.(Hons) and M.Sc. in Chemistry (2010) at Rhodes University, South Africa. She then moved to the University of Queensland, Australia with an International Postgraduate Research Scholarship for her PhD (2014) with Prof. David Craik. During her PhD, she started working with peptides and focused on the synthesis, structure and activities of cyclic disulfide-rich peptides from mammals, the theta-defensins. In 2014, she was awarded an Interdisciplinary Cancer Research (Marie-Curie co-fund) postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Vienna, Austria, and worked with Prof. Christian Becker on targeted immune-stimulating molecules for cancer therapy. She returned to the University of Queensland in 2019 with a UQ Development Fellowship to start her independent research on the synthesis and structure of posttranslationally modified proteins. In 2022, she took up a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Peptide and Protein Chemistry at TU Wien, Austria. Research in her group focuses on how posttranslational modifications regulate protein structure and biological function of intrinsically disordered proteins and regions.
The research lab led by Dr. Anne Conibear uses protein and peptide chemistry to create site-specifically modified proteins, enabling investigation of how posttranslational modifications regulate protein function and fundamental biological processes. They apply these tools across diverse systems—including nucleosomal proteins like HMGN1, structural studies through their Structure Zoom approach, and a novel semi-synthetic platform.
In recognition of her professional and scientific achievements, the Scientific Advisory Board of the Boulder Peptide Society is pleased to present the award to Dr. Conibear. She will present an oral presentation on her research and formally accept the award at the fall Boulder Peptide Symposium Sept 15-18, 2025 in Boulder, Colorado.
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