Constructive Bio Founder and Chief Scientific Officer, Professor Jason Chin, Named the 2026 Heinrich Wieland Prize Recipient

Constructive Bio Founder and Chief Scientific Officer, Professor Jason Chin, Named the 2026 Heinrich Wieland Prize Recipient

Constructive Bio’s founder and Chief Scientific Officer, Professor Jason Chin, has been named the recipient of the 2026 Heinrich Wieland Prize, one of Europe’s most prestigious honours for fundamental research in the life sciences. The award places Professor Chin among past laureates, including five Nobel Prize winners, and recognises the genetic-code-expansion technology now being applied to next-generation therapeutics, including GLP-1s.

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The award, presented by the Boehringer Ingelheim Stiftung, recognises his pioneering contributions to synthetic biology, particularly his engineering of cells to biosynthesise unnatural proteins and polymers with properties absent in nature.

Professor Chin is best known for his scientific breakthrough in genetic code expansion, through the creation of synthetic bacterial genomes with compressed genetic codes. This involves rewriting the fundamental instructions cells use to build molecules, allowing them to create entirely new classes of proteins and polymers that nature alone cannot make. His methodology has become the most widely used approach worldwide for biosynthesising non-natural proteins and polymers.