The Biophysical Society is proud to announce its 2019 Class of Fellows. The Fellows 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 2019 Fellows will be recognized at the awards ceremony on Monday evening, March 4, during the Society’s Annual Meeting in Baltimore, Maryland.
Marileen Dogterom, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, for her pioneering experimental work on elucidating the physical mechanisms that govern assembly and dynamics of cytoskeleton filaments, in particular microtubules.
Judith Frydman, Stanford University, USA, for her fundamental contributions to deciphering the role of molecular chaperones in protein folding, quality control, and cell regulation.
Gilad Haran, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, for his outstanding contributions to the development and applications of single-molecule methods for studying folding of single and multi-domain proteins.
Stefan Hell, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Germany, for his pioneering development of stimulated emission depletion microscopy, radically overcoming the Abbe resolution limit and permitting to record fast movements within living cells.
Kenneth Johnson, University of Texas, Austin, USA, for his sustained contributions to biophysics and for his impactful studies using advanced enzyme kinetics in a wide variety of systems.
Zaida Luthey-Schulten, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, for the development of ribosomal dynamics and whole cell simulations, modelling diffusion-reaction networks and metabolic pathways within entire cells.
Rohit Pappu, Washington University in St. Louis, USA, for ingeniously implementing polymer physics approaches and molecular simulations to characterize intrinsically disordered proteins.