The Biophysical Society is proud to announce that it has named seven distinguished members as its 2024 Class of Fellows. This award is given to Society members who have demonstrated sustained excellence in science and have contributed to the expansion of the field of biophysics. The newest honorees will be recognized during the Biophysical Society’s 68th Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The 2024 Fellows are:
Rommie E. Amaro, University of California, San Diego, USA, for her work on developing methods to enable the simulation of biological molecules in situ and their applications to illuminate the role of glycans in biology.
Ivet Bahar, Laufer Center, Stony Brook University, USA, for pioneering novel models and methods in structural and computational biology, including the elastic network models for protein dynamics that helped bridge protein structure and function.
Jennifer A. Doudna, University of California, Berkeley, USA, and Innovative Genomics Institute, USA, for her development of a method for genome editing.
Kresten Lindorff-Larsen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, for his significant contributions to the field of protein biophysics, particularly in integrating computational and experimental methods to study the structure, dynamics, folding, and function of proteins.
Gary J. Pielak, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA, for his biophysical studies on protein structure and dynamics, both in vitro and inside cells, with a particular emphasis on crowding.
Eugene Shakhnovich, Harvard University, USA, for his work on statistical physics of proteins that illuminated fundamental aspects of folding, design, evolutionary dynamics, and complex biological phenomena.
Michelle D. Wang, Cornell University, USA, for advancing our understanding of transcription, replication, and chromatin dynamics through the lens of DNA mechanics and topology.