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Page 1 of 2  The 8000 member Biophysical Society is pleased to announce the
recipients of its 2007 Society awards. The 12 recipients will receive
their awards at the Biophysical Society's 51st Annual Meeting on Monday
March 5, 2007, at the Convention Center in Baltimore, Maryland.
The awardees are:
Claus Gawrisch, National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institutes of Health, will receive the Avanti Award in Lipids for hisoutstanding contributions to our understanding of lipid biophysics throughgroundbreaking work in the development of NMR techniques for characterizationof lipid structure and dynamics, and for his seminal and influential contributionsto the modern picture of highly unsaturated lipids. Dr. Gawrisch works as amentor and collaborator for many junior investigators;
Ken A. Dill, University of California, San Francisco, will receive the istinguished Service Award for his long and continuous work on behalf of theBiophysical Society, and biophysics in general, that has ranged from service aspresident of the Society to his recent efforts as chair of the Public Affairs Committee;
John Steven Olson, Rice University, will receive the Emily M. Gray Award for is outstanding contributions to education in biophysics. He has had significantimpact on many undergraduate and graduate students through teaching,mentoring, organizing programs between universities to promote biophysicstraining, and his ability to engage both scientists and non-scientists through his lectures;
Clara Franzini-Armstrong, University of Pennsylvania, will receive the ounders Award for her outstanding achievement in Biophysics by significantly contributing to our understanding of the excitation-coupling mechanism ofstriated muscles through her ultrastructural analyses of muscle, and the correlationof the structure with the physiological EC coupling mechanism;
Taekjip Ha, University of Illinois, will receive the Michael and Kate Barany ward for Young Investigators for his development and application of novel single molecule physical methods and techniques, and for his ground-breaking discoveries in the single molecule research field. Dr. Ha co-invented the single olecule fluorescence resonance energy transfer methods, and is well recognized or his work in manipulating single molecules to elevate their behavior and nteractions;
Howard C. Berg, Harvard University, will receive the Single Molecule Award for his biophysical tudies of single bacterial motors and other seminal contributions to this field, and
Katlina Hristova, Johns Hopkins University, will receive the Margaret Oakley Dayhoff Award for her extraordinary and outstanding scientific achievements in Biophysics research, specifically, for her work on lipid bilayers and protein folding at bilayer surfaces, valuable for applications in biology and medicine. This award is given to a junior woman scientist of promise in the field of biophysics, who has not yet reached a position of high recognition within the structures of academic society. The award also honors the memory of Dr. Margaret Dayhoff, former President of the Biophysical Society, Professor of iophysics at Georgetown University, and Director of Research at the National Biomedical Research Foundation.
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