38th EPS
European Peptide Symposium

6 - 11th of September 2026 

Vienna, Austria



Program

The exact program will be announced at a later date.


Plenary

David Baker
University of Washington, 
USA

Recipient of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry


Hiroaki Suga
University of Tokyo, Japan

Jens Juul Holst
University of Copenhagen, Denmark

© Povl Lystrup Thomsen

Tom Muir
Princeton University, USA

Richard Payne
University of Sydney, Australia



Exclusive Young Investigator Career Development Session

Morten Meldal
University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Recipient of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

© Lars Krabbe

Cesar de la Fuente
University of Pennsylvania, USA

© Martí E. Berenguer

Nina Hartrampf
Universität Zürich, Switzerland

© 2025 Clara Brand

Anne Conibear
TU Wien, Austria


Speakers

Paul Cox
Brain Chemistry Labs - Institute for Ethnomedicine, USA

© 2020 Brain Chemistry Labs

Lei Liu
Tsinghua University, Department of Chemistry, China

Marta de Zotti
University of Padua, Italy


Dirk Trauner
University of Pennsylvania, School of Arts & Sciences, Department of Chemistry, USA

Helena Safavi
University of Utah, USA

Phil Dawson
Scripps Research Institute, USA

Irene Coin
Universität Leipzig, Germany

Maurice Elphick
Queen Mary University of London, UK

Monika Raj
Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University, USA

Olalla Vasquez
Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany

Alexander Hauser
University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Tom Grossmann
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany

Jeroen Kool
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Sonia Henriques
University of Queensland, Australia

Jayanta Chatterjee
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

Xuechen Li
The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Benjamí Oller
IQS Barcelona, Ramon Llull University, Spain

Jef Bode
ETH Zürich, Switzerland

Yasuhiro Kajihara
Osaka University, Japan

Oleg Melnyk
CNRS, Institut de biologie de Lille, France

Kata Horváti
HUN-REN Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Budapest, Hungary

Sylwia Rodziewicz-Motowidło
University of Gdansk, Poland

© University of Gdansk

Hyun Suk Lim
Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea

Ting Zhu
Westlake University, China

Louise Walport
Francis Crick Institute, London, UK

Gaurav Bhardwaj
University of Washington, USA

© Conrado Tapado


Special Session on Peptide Drug Development

Ali Tavissoli
University of Southampton, UK

Christian Heinis
EPFL, Switzerland

© Alain Herzog

Glenn King
University of Queensland, Australia

Ranganath Gopalakrishnan
Astra Zeneca, Sweden

Meritxell Teixidó
Gate2Brain, Spain

Florence Brunel
NovoNordisk, USA


Special Session of SNOOPY - COST ACTION CA23111
(Searching for Nanostructured or pOre fOrming Peptides for therapY)

Daniela Kalafatovic
University of Rijeka, Croatia

action chair


Dek Woolfson
University of Bristol, UK

For questions concerning the organization, the program and sponsoring opportunities:

European Peptide Symposium 2026


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