The Biophysical Society is pleased to recognize the following 2023 award recipients. These members will be honored during the 67th Annual Meeting in February.
Karen G. Fleming, Johns Hopkins University, USA, will receive the Avanti Award in Lipids for her groundbreaking contributions to our fundamental understanding of membrane protein stability, folding, biogenesis, and insertion through development and application of novel experimental tools that quantify membrane protein folding kinetics and thermodynamics.
Kevin H. Gardner, CUNY Graduate Center and City College of New York, USA, will receive the Award in the Biophysics of Health & Disease for his development and application of magnetic resonance methodology to elucidate the mechanism and regulation of molecular switches, leading to the development of PAS domain inhibitors for cancer therapies and the exceptional translation of this understanding to the development of an effective cancer drug.
Elizabeth H. Kellogg, Cornell University, USA, will receive the Margaret Oakley Dayhoff Award for her important contributions to the
mechanistic understanding of challenging and complex biological systems, including the neuronal microtubule interactor tau and a variety of DNA transposition systems.
Jonathan A. King, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, will receive the Emily M. Gray Award for his distinguished record of
excellence in classroom teaching, research mentoring, and education of the public on science and policy.
José Nelson Onuchic, Rice University Center for Theoretical & Biological Physics, USA, will receive the Founders Award for his wide-ranging impactful contributions to theoretical and computational biophysics across the scale of molecular-level interactions to that of cellular systems encompassing electron transfer, protein folding, genetic networks, and genome architecture.
Krzystof (Kris) Palczewski, University of California, Irvine, USA, will receive the Anatrace Membrane Protein Award for his seminal work on the GPCR rhodospin and disease mechanisms and treatments and his impact on structural biology, notably lipid interactions and conformational changes exhibited on ligand binding and isomerization.
Ben Schuler, University of Zurich, Switzerland, will receive the Kazuhiko Kinosita Award in Single-Molecule Biophysics for his development and application of single-molecule fluorescence methodology and fundamental contributions to understanding protein
folding and intrinsically disordered proteins.
Jeanne C. Stachowiak, University of Texas at Austin, USA, will receive the Michael and Kate Bárány Award for her paradigm-shifting discovery in the field of membrane biophysics, demonstrating that proteins can induce membrane curvature solely through a surface crowding mechanism.
Sarah A. Woodson, Johns Hopkins University, USA, will receive the Ignacio Tinoco Award for her inspiring work on RNA folding and the assembly of RNA-protein complexes using frontier biophysical methods, which established currently accepted models for how RNA complexes assemble and function.
Jin Zhang, University of California, San Diego, USA, will receive the Carolyn Cohen Innovation Award for her pioneering work in elucidating spatiotemporal regulation of signaling molecules in their native biological context, the living cell.