The Biophysical Society is proud to announce it has named seven distinguished members as its 2022 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 66th Annual Meeting. The 2022 Fellows are:
Roger Cooke, University of California, San Francisco, USA, for landmark discoveries in motor proteins, which defined the current lever-arm mechanisms in myosin and first defined its “super-relaxed” state, and the mechanism, structure, and energetics of kinesins.
Karen Fleming, Johns Hopkins University, USA, for rigorous and incisive contributions to our understanding of the thermodynamics of membrane protein folding and for her tireless devotion to promoting gender equity in science.
Angela Gronenborn, University of Pittsburgh, USA, for her pioneering work in the use of nuclear magnetic resonance to probe the structure and function of macromolecules in biology and for her outstanding commitment to and impact on the biophysics community as a whole.
Martin Karplus, Harvard University, USA, for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems and molecular dynamics simulations of biological macromolecules.
Stephen Kowalczykowski, University of California, Davis, USA, for his seminal biophysical and biochemical studies, including advancing “visual biochemistry,” that have contributed to our understanding of the complex protein-DNA interactions involved in DNA recombination and DNA replication.
Dame Carol V. Robinson, University of Oxford, United Kingdom, for advancing the field of native mass spectrometry of proteins and protein complexes.
Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede, Chalmers University, Sweden, for her pioneering research accomplishments that have enhanced our understanding of protein biophysics, with an emphasis on metalloprotein folding, macromolecular crowding effects, and metal transport mechanisms.