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The National Medal of Science and National Medal of Technology and Innovation are the highest awards the US gives to leaders in the fields of science and technology. This month, US President Barack Obama announced a new group of recipients, and we’re delighted to congratulate F1000 International Advisory Board Member Bruce Alberts and Section Head Judith Klinman on being part of this prestigious group.

Bruce Alberts joined our International Advisory Board, the body that advises F1000 on broad policy issues and development of new products and services, in 2008. A prominent biochemist, Professor Alberts served as one of President Obama’s first three ‘Science Envoys’, as well as two terms as President of the National Academy of Science, Professor Emeritus at UCSF and Editor-in-Chief of Science.

Judith Klinman has been one of the heads of the Biocatalysis Section (along with a former National Medal of Science recipient, JoAnne Stubbe) of F1000’s Chemical Biology Faculty since 2011. Professor Klinman has had a “lifelong fascination with enzymes”, and has been a Chancellor’s Professor, Guggenheim Fellow and Miller Fellow at UC Berkeley’s department of chemistry. Professor Klinman has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, and has received the Repligen Award and the Remsen Award from the American Chemical Society and the Merck Award from the American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.

A White House press release, detailing all the recipients, can be read here. Our congratulations again to both!