The Biophysical Society is pleased to recognize the following 2022 award recipients. These members will be honored during the 66th Annual Meeting in February.
Patricia Bassereau, Institut Curie, France, will receive the Avanti Award in Lipids for her stellar work on membrane lipid organization and mechanics.
Dorothy Beckett, National Institute of General Medical Sciences, NIH, USA, will receive the Rosalba Kampman Distinguished Service Award for serving the Biophysical Society energetically and thoughtfully in many leadership roles, and for bringing a fierce and outspoken commitment to equity, breadth, and opportunity for all members of our worldwide Society in all fields of biophysics.
Stephen C. Cannon, University of California, Los Angeles, USA, will receive the BPS Award in the Biophysics of Health and Disease for groundbreaking discoveries in the biophysical elucidation of channelopathies of sodium and calcium channels, including hyperkalemic and hypokalemic periodic paralysis, and for using this understanding to design clinical trials to treat these disorders.
Bridget Carragher, New York Structural Biology Center, USA, will receive the Innovation Award for developing inkjet deposition and vitrification technology for cryo-EM.
William Dowhan, University of Texas Health Science Center, USA, will receive the Anatrace Membrane Protein Award for his seminal contributions towards understanding lipid regulation of integral membrane protein topology.
Suckjoon Jun, University of California, San Diego, USA, will receive the Michael and Kate Bárány Award for Young Investigators for groundbreaking research on the biophysical mechanisms of bacterial cell size control.
Gabriela Schlau-Cohen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, will receive the Margaret Oakley Dayhoff Award for elucidating structural and energetic dynamics of biological and bio-inspired systems through her innovative applications of spectroscopic methods.
Paul R. Selvin, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA, will receive the Ignacio Tinoco Award for novel and ongoing contributions to development of single-molecule biophysics and application to important biophysical research problems.
Timothy A. Springer, Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard University, USA, will receive the Founders Award for pioneering contributions to biophysical studies of immune cell rolling, activation, and adhesion and for revealing the force-based activation of integrins through an innovative combination of structural biology, single-molecule mechanical measurements, and thermodynamic analysis.
Shimon Weiss, University of California, Los Angeles, USA, will receive the Kazuhiko Kinosita Award in Single-Molecule Biophysics for trailblazing contributions to the field of single-molecule florescence detection biophysics.