Christopher O. Barnes, Stanford University, USA, will receive the Early Independent Career Award as an outstanding young investigator who combines structural methods with in vivo approaches to translate knowledge of viral-host interactions into developing therapeutics and vaccines against zoonotic viruses.
Scott C. Blanchard, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, USA, will receive the Kazuhiko Kinosita Award in Single-Molecule Biophysics for expanding the reach of single-molecule fluorescence approaches to reveal the dynamics of complex biological systems, including translating ribosomes and membrane proteins.
Paula J. Booth, King’s College London, United Kingdom, will receive the Anatrace Membrane Protein Award for continuing pioneering contributions to our understanding of the biophysics of membrane protein folding, particularly folding kinetics.
Silvia Cavagnero, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, will receive the Emily M. Gray Award for developing courses, innovating instructional methods, mentoring students at all levels, and promoting diversity in biophysics.
Hernan G. Garcia, University of California, Berkeley, USA, will receive the Michael and Kate Bárány Award for his outstanding contributions to quantitative developmental biology and his creative use of advanced microscopies and theory to characterize and follow transversally the control of transcription in the Drosophila embryo.
James A. Glazier, Indiana University Bloomington, USA, will receive the Klaus Schulten and Zaida Luthey-Schulten Computational Biophysics Lecture Award for his development of algorithms, software, and models describing the emergent multicellular organization of development, homeostasis, and disease.
Gilad Haran, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, will receive the Ignacio Tinoco Award of the Biophysical Society for his many contributions to developing novel spectroscopic methods and applying them to provide new insights into a wide range of problems in protein dynamics and function.
Elizabeth A. Jonas, Yale University School of Medicine, USA, will receive the BPS Award in the Biophysics of Health and Disease for her groundbreaking research in biophysics and neuroscience and her continuous service to the Biophysical Society’s Bioenergetics, Mitochondria, and Metabolism Subgroup.
Hugo Lachuer, Institut Jacques Monod (CNRS), France, will receive the Outstanding Doctoral Research in Biophysics Award for discovering that the spatial pattern of lysosomal exocytosis is controlled by membrane tension gradients.
Daniel R. Larson, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, USA, will receive the Carolyn Cohen Innovation Award for his pioneering contributions to the field of gene regulation using single-cell and single-molecule biophysical methods that encompass advances in both theoretical and experimental methods that have resulted in specific advances in our understanding of transcription, splicing, and gene regulation.
Doreen Matthies, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, USA, will receive the Margaret Oakley Dayhoff Award for her research investigating transmembrane proteins by cryo-EM, including discovering structures of key magnesium channels and transporters.
Janice L. Robertson, Washington University in St. Louis, USA, will receive the Agnes Pockels Award in Lipids and Membrane Biophysics for her work advancing the experimental and computational study of membrane protein oligomerization in membranes, including identifying critical driving forces and regulation of stability by ions and lipids.
Devarajan Thirumalai, The University of Texas at Austin, USA, will receive the Founders Award for developing and applying theoretical concepts and novel simulations to solve a bewildering array of problems in biophysics for 30 years.
Nadab Wubshet, University of Michigan and Harvard University, USA, will receive the Outstanding Doctoral Research in Biophysics Award for outstanding contributions to the study of the mechanics of actin cytoskeleton in cells and encapsulated in giant vesicles.
Elizabeth A. Yates, United States Naval Academy, USA, will receive the PUI Faculty Award for pioneering biophysical research in bio-inspired materials toward the development of deployable underwater adhesives and tirelessly working to improve the curriculum for USNA’s chemistry majors.