The Biophysical Society is pleased to announce the 2024 Society Award recipients. These members will be honored during the 68th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society in February 2024.
Steven G. Boxer, Stanford University, USA, will receive the Founders Award for his insightful and far-reaching contributions to biophysics, using his invention of vibrational Stark spectroscopy coupled with mutational analysis and structure to provide deep mechanistic understandings of photosynthetic reaction centers, fluorescent proteins, vesicle membrane fusion in self-assembling bilayers, and electric field effects in enzymes and proteins.
Susan K. Buchanan, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, USA, will receive the Anatrace Membrane Protein Award for her impactful contributions to the understanding of outer membrane protein folding and insertion and for structural insights into small and large molecule active transport across the outer membrane.
Nancy Carrasco, Vanderbilt University, USA, will receive the BPS Award in the Biophysics of Health and Disease for her seminal and elegant work using biophysical approaches to define and characterize the sodium/iodide transporter that is essential for synthesizing thyroid hormone and then translating these findings into important medical applications.
Takanari Inoue, Johns Hopkins University, USA, will receive the Carolyn Cohen Innovation Award for his distinguished contributions at the interfaces of cell biology, chemical and synthetic biology, and biophysics, particularly for technology development to enable actuation of native, as well as artificial, cell functions with biological and biophysical implications.
Christy F. Landes, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, will receive the Kazuhiko Kinosita Award in Single-Molecule Biophysics for her exciting developments of single-molecule measurement techniques and their application to chemical and biological systems such as polymers and ion channels.
Kandice Levental and Ilya Levental, University of Virginia, USA, will receive the Avanti Award in Lipids for their collaborative, innovative, and creative science, which has made outstanding contributions to the understanding of lipid biophysics, putting them among the world leaders in the field of membrane biophysics.
Julia Mahamid, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Germany, will receive the Michael and Kate Bárány Award for profound contributions, both technical and biological, to the field of cryo-electron tomography.
M. Thomas Record, Jr., University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA, will receive the Ignacio Tinoco Award of the Biophysical Society for his pioneering research on the thermodynamics of protein-nucleic acid interactions and his dedication to mentoring and teaching biophysical chemistry to generations of students.
Frances Separovic, University of Melbourne, Australia, will receive the Rosalba Kampman Distinguished Service Award for her inspiring service to the Biophysical Society, her ambassadorship of biophysics internationally, and for working vigorously throughout her career to encourage greater participation of women at all levels in science and engineering.
Lu Wei, California Institute of Technology, USA, will receive the Margaret Oakley Dayhoff Award for her impactful development of new live-cell functional chemical imaging strategies for quantitative intracellular biophysical analysis.