Northwestern University’s Amy C. Rosenzweig, the Weinberg Family Distinguished Professor of Life Sciences and Professor of Molecular Biosciences and Chemistry, received two prestigious scientific awards in 2021 for her work at the forefront of biochemistry. She received the Alfred Bader Award in Bioinorganic or Bioorganic Chemistry from the American Chemical Society and the Hans Neurath Award from the Protein Society.
Rosenzweig, a preeminent biochemist who studies how proteins and metals interact in the human body and in the environment, received the 2021 Alfred Bader Award in Bioinorganic or Bioorganic Chemistry for her outstanding contributions to the field. The American Chemistry Society award is sponsored by Alfred R. Bader Fund and the George and Christine Sosnovsky Fund.
She also received the 2021 Hans Neurath Award from The Protein Society for contributions of exceptional merit to basic protein research. Rosenzweig was recognized, in part, for “her important work on membrane-bound methane monooxygenase, which has inspired new ways to harness the energy of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, as an alternative liquid fuel source.” She will receive the award this July at The Protein Society’s annual meeting.
Rosenzweig’s lab studies metal-dependent methane oxidation, oxygen activation, and metal uptake and transport using structural, spectroscopic, biochemical, genetic, and bioinformatics approaches. Other work from Professor Rosenzweig on copper uptake may hold therapeutic potential in Wilson’s disease, a genetic disorder leading to copper overload in humans.* (Protein Society Website)
In 2017, Rosenzweig was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Her numerous honors include being elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2014) and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2007). Rosenzweig was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2003. She received the Royal Society of Chemistry Joseph Chatt Award (2014), the American Chemical Society Nobel Laureate Signature Award for Graduate Education (2006), and an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Amherst College (2005).
She is a member of the Chemistry of Life Processes Institute at Northwestern.
Read Northwestern Magazine’s story about Rosenzweig, The Powerful World of Proteins.