Mahoney Life Sciences Prize Honors ‘Shrink-wrap’ Approach to Protein Therapeutics

Sankaran “Thai” Thayumanavan,member of CBD and professor of Chemistry, has been chosen to receive the campus’s 2019 Mahoney Life Sciences Prize for his paper, “Shrink-wrapped Proteins as Next Generation Biologics.”

Established by UMass Amherst alumni Richard, Robert and William Mahoney, the $10,000 annual prize is awarded to a faculty member who is principal author of peer-reviewed original research and is intended to recognize CNS scientists whose work significantly advances connections between academic research and industry.