Recent Peptide Publications

The American Peptide Society congratulates Laura L. Kiessling and Ronald T. Raines of MIT on receiving the 2026 van 't Hoff Lectureship Award from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Named for the first Nobel laureate in Chemistry, the award honors leading scientists for innovative research. Raines, a past recipient of the Society's Vincent du Vigneaud Award, and Kiessling were recognized at the 2026 van 't Hoff Symposium on Chirality in the Netherlands.

A fifteen-amino-acid peptide named BPC-157 has spent fifty years on the margins of medicine and is now headed for an FDA advisory review. In a new STAT and Undark investigation, APS President Anna Mapp examines the original patent and finds a missing parent-protein sequence and no clear evidence the peptide occurs in the human body. Her questions cut to whether the foundational work can be reproduced at all. Read our summary of the reporting and where the science stands.

This Special Issue of OPR&D will highlight advances in design, synthesis, purification, and manufacturing strategies that translate molecular complexity into process reliability. Submit your manuscript by September 30, 2026.