Biemann Medal

Eligibility & How To Submit a Nomination | Deadline: November 30

GO TO ONLINE AWARDS PLATFORM to start your nomination. You will register (create) an account, or retrieve your password from last year, with our special awards platform and then get started by selecting 'Biemann Medal' from the dropdown list of awards.  

Pro-Tip: Start your nomination as soon as possible so that you can invite your letter writers to upload now via the online platform (you may also gather the letters and upload for them). You can jump directly to the support letters sections once you get started. Letters should be uploaded by the November 30 deadline. You do not need to complete your nomination in one session. You can return as many times as needed to complete/upload all required items.

Eligibility
Nominee must be a current ASMS member and within the first 15 years of receiving the Ph.D. at the time the nomination is received. Consistent with the award’s goal of recognizing a recipient early in his or her career, no exceptions to the 15-year post-Ph.D. eligibility requirement will be considered. For example, eligible nominees for the November 30, 2026 nomination should have received their Ph.D.in 2011 or later.

Elements & Information needed for nomination:

• Nominee name, affiliation, position title, email, year in which Ph.D. was received, and ASMS member status.
• 1-2 concise sentence(s) to the nominee's significant achievement in basic or applied mass spectrometry (50 words max). This may be excerpted from the fuller description document.
• Fuller description of the nominee's significant achievement in basic or applied mass spectrometry (1-page max). PDF only. This may be excerpted from the fuller description document.
• List of the nominee’s publications pertaining to the significant achievement. PDF only.
• Specific publications relevant to the achievement. Up to two articles, one is required. PDF only.
• Two support letters. Gather and upload the two letters OR choose to send a special upload link via the awards platform. 

Nominations are held for three years so long as the date of PhD is still within the eligible range.

Nikolai Slavov, 2026 Recipient

Nikolai Slavov is the recipient of the ASMS Biemann Medal for his methods for high-throughput Single Cell ProtEomics by Mass Spectrometry (SCoPE-MS and SCoPE2) that were used to investigate the proteome heterogeneity of stem cell differentiation and macrophage polarization. These results stimulated the emergence of the single-cell mass spectrometry proteomics field.

Building on these initial methods, his group continued to advance and support the field by introducing increasingly more powerful approaches, including prioritized SCoPE and plexDIA, spearheading the establishment of initial community guidelines, and organizing an annual single-cell proteomics conference. He has established and continues to build research programs that push the boundaries of low-input and single-cell proteomics that enable accurate quantification and increased proteome depth in an effort to answer deep questions important to the biological community.

Dr. Slavov is a Distinguished Professor at Northeastern University and the founding  Director of Parallel Squared Technology Institute (PTI), a new type research organization funded through Schmidt Futures and Ken Griffin.