Thoughts for the future

Lona M Alkhalaf; Cheryl Arrowsmith; Emily P Balskus; Giovanna Bergamini; Rashna Bhandari; Christopher J Chang; Peng Chen; Xing Chen; Alessio Ciulli; Julia A Cricco; Benjamin G Davis; Martina Delbianco; Natalia Dudareva; Erin Dueber; Fleur Ferguson; Priscila Oliveira de Giuseppe; Itaru Hamachi; Ming Chen Hammond; Stavroula K Hatzios; Won Do Heo; Jon Paul Janet; Siddhesh S Kamat; Stefan Knapp; Yamuna Krishnan; Kathrin Lang; Luca Laraia; Reuben B Leveson-Gower; Xiang David Li; David R Liu; Mo-Fang Liu; Nir London; Nilkamal Mahanta; Cristina Mayor-Ruiz; Tom Muir; Mário Tyago Murakami; Hyun-Woo Rhee; Matt Robers; Alex Satz; Brenda A Schulman; Ben Shen; Brian Shoichet; Erick Strauss; Tsutomu Suzuki; Pratyush Tiwary; Herbert Waldmann; Thomas R Ward; Amy Weeks; Eranthie Weerapana; Georg Winter

doi:10.1038/s41589-024-01802-2

Thoughts for the future

Nat Chem Biol. 2025 Jan;21(1):6-15. doi: 10.1038/s41589-024-01802-2.

Authors

Lona M Alkhalaf¹, Cheryl Arrowsmith², Emily P Balskus^{3

4}, Giovanna Bergamini⁵, Rashna Bhandari⁶, Christopher J Chang⁷, Peng Chen⁸, Xing Chen⁹, Alessio Ciulli¹⁰, Julia A Cricco¹¹, Benjamin G Davis^{12

13}, Martina Delbianco¹⁴, Natalia Dudareva¹⁵, Erin Dueber¹⁶, Fleur Ferguson¹⁷, Priscila Oliveira de Giuseppe¹⁸, Itaru Hamachi¹⁹, Ming Chen Hammond²⁰, Stavroula K Hatzios²¹, Won Do Heo²², Jon Paul Janet²³, Siddhesh S Kamat²⁴, Stefan Knapp²⁵, Yamuna Krishnan²⁶, Kathrin Lang²⁷, Luca Laraia²⁸, Reuben B Leveson-Gower²⁹, Xiang David Li³⁰, David R Liu^{31

32

33}, Mo-Fang Liu³⁴, Nir London³⁵, Nilkamal Mahanta³⁶, Cristina Mayor-Ruiz³⁷, Tom Muir³⁸, Mário Tyago Murakami³⁹, Hyun-Woo Rhee⁴⁰, Matt Robers⁴¹, Alex Satz⁴², Brenda A Schulman⁴³, Ben Shen⁴⁴, Brian Shoichet⁴⁵, Erick Strauss⁴⁶, Tsutomu Suzuki⁴⁷, Pratyush Tiwary^{48

49}, Herbert Waldmann^{50

51}, Thomas R Ward⁵², Amy Weeks⁵³, Eranthie Weerapana⁵⁴, Georg Winter⁵⁵

Affiliations

¹ University of Warwick, Coventry, UK. l.alkhalaf.1@warwick.ac.uk.
² University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. cheryl.arrowsmith@uhnresearch.ca.
³ Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA. balskus@chemistry.harvard.edu.
⁴ Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA. balskus@chemistry.harvard.edu.
⁵ Cellzome GmbH, Heidelberg, Germany. giovanna.2.bergamini@gsk.com.
⁶ BRIC-Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics, Hyderabad, India. rashna@cdfd.org.in.
⁷ Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA. chrischang@princeton.edu.
⁸ Peking University, Beijing, China. pengchen@pku.edu.cn.
⁹ Peking University, Beijing, China. xingchen@pku.edu.cn.
¹⁰ University of Dundee, Dundee, UK. a.ciulli@dundee.ac.uk.
¹¹ CONICET-Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Rosario, Argentina. cricco@ibr-conicet.gov.ar.
¹² The Rosalind Franklin Institute, Oxford, UK. ben.davis@chem.ox.ac.uk.
¹³ The University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. ben.davis@chem.ox.ac.uk.
¹⁴ Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam, Germany. martina.delbianco@mpikg.mpg.de.
¹⁵ Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA. dudareva@purdue.edu.
¹⁶ Genentech, South San Francisco, CA, USA. dueber.erin@gene.com.
¹⁷ University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA. fmferguson@ucsd.edu.
¹⁸ Center for Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM), Campinas, Brazil. priscila.giuseppe@lnbr.cnpem.br.
¹⁹ Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan. ihamachi@sbchem.kyoto-u.ac.jp.
²⁰ University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA. ming.hammond@utah.edu.
²¹ Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA. stavroula.hatzios@yale.edu.
²² Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Republic of Korea. wondo@kaist.ac.kr.
²³ AstraZeneca, Gothenburg, Sweden. jonpaul.janet@AstraZeneca.com.
²⁴ Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune, India. siddhesh@iiserpune.ac.in.
²⁵ Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. knapp@pharmchem.uni-frankfurt.de.
²⁶ University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA. yamuna@uchicago.edu.
²⁷ ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland. kathrin.lang@org.chem.ethz.ch.
²⁸ Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark. luclar@kemi.dtu.dk.
²⁹ Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands. R.Leveson-Gower@tudelft.nl.
³⁰ The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China. xiangli@hku.hk.
³¹ Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA. drliu@fas.harvard.edu.
³² Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA. drliu@fas.harvard.edu.
³³ Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA. drliu@fas.harvard.edu.
³⁴ Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Center for Excellence in Molecular Cell Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China. mfliu@sibcb.ac.cn.
³⁵ The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. nir.london@weizmann.ac.il.
³⁶ Indian Institute of Technology Dharwad, Dharwad, India. neel@iitdh.ac.in.
³⁷ IRB Barcelona - Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Barcelona, Spain. cristina.mayor-ruiz@irbbarcelona.org.
³⁸ Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA. muir@princeton.edu.
³⁹ Center for Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM), Campinas, Brazil. mario.t.murakami@gmail.com.
⁴⁰ Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea. rheehw@snu.ac.kr.
⁴¹ Promega, Madison, WI, USA. Matt.Robers@promega.com.
⁴² WuXi AppTec, Gräfelfing, Germany. alex.satz@wuxiapptec.com.
⁴³ Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany. Schulman@biochem.mpg.de.
⁴⁴ The Wertheim UF Scripps Institute, Jupiter, FL, USA. ben.shen@ufl.edu.
⁴⁵ University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA. bshoichet@gmail.com.
⁴⁶ Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa. estrauss@sun.ac.za.
⁴⁷ University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. ts@chembio.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp.
⁴⁸ University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA. ptiwary@umd.edu.
⁴⁹ University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA. ptiwary@umd.edu.
⁵⁰ Max Planck Institute Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany. herbert.waldmann@mpi-dortmund.mpg.de.
⁵¹ TU Dortmund University, Dortmund, Germany. herbert.waldmann@mpi-dortmund.mpg.de.
⁵² University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland. thomas.ward@unibas.ch.
⁵³ University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA. amweeks@wisc.edu.
⁵⁴ Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, USA. eranthie.weerapana@bc.edu.
⁵⁵ CeMM, Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria. GWinter@cemm.oeaw.ac.at.

PMID: 39719500
DOI: 10.1038/s41589-024-01802-2

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