Deadline for nominations: May 1 of each year.
This award honors the Society's distinguished members who have demonstrated excellence in science, to the expansion of the field of biophysics and support of the Biophysical Society.
Download Society Award Nomination Form

Eligibility:

• Nominee must have demonstrated excellence in science and to the expansion of the field of biophysics.
• Nominee must be a member of the Society in good standing.
• Nominator must submit completed Nomination Form and required documents.

Nominations packets must include the following:

1. Completed Award Nomination Form.
2. A letter describing qualifications of the nominee.
3. Two supporting letters.
4. Nominee’s curriculum vitae.

Email Nomination packet to: society@biophysics.org

Current Awardees

2010	Steven M. Block, Stanford University David S. Cafiso, University of Virginia G. Marius Clore, National Institutes of Health Michael A. Edidin, Johns Hopkins University Shelagh Ferguson-Miller, Michigan State University Andrew Joshua Wand, University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine

Past Awardees

2009	Donald M. Bers, University of California, Davis Betty J. Gaffney, Florida State University Robert L. Jernigan, Iowa State University Mark T. Nelson, University of Vermont Diane M. Papazian, University of California, Los Angeles
2008	Timothy A. Cross, Florida State University Eve E. Marder, Brandeis University Ivan Rayment, University of Wisconsin Stephen G. Sligar, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Attila Szabo, NIH, NIDDK
2007	Steven Boxer, Stanford University Maurizio Brunori, University of Rome William Cramer, Purdue University Elliot L. Elson, Washington University George P. Hess, Cornell University
2006	Michael Bárány, University of Illinois, College of Medicine Yale Goldman, University of Pennsylvania Martin Gruebele, University of Illinois, Urbana M. Thomas Record, University of Wisconsin, Madison J. Walter Woodbury, University of Utah, Medical School Xialing Sunney Xie, Harvard University
2005	Sunney I. Chan, California Institute of Technology Edward H. Egelman, University of Virginia Health Science Center Jeffrey Skolnick, Buffalo Center for Excellence in Bioinformatics David D. Thomas, University of Minnesota Medical School Ernest M. Wright, University of California, Los Angeles
2004	David L. Beveridge, Wesleyan University  Ronald N. McElhaney, University of Alberta  Mauricio Montal, University of California, San Diego  Brian D. Sykes, University of Alberta
2003	Mordecai P. Blaustein, University of Maryland School of Medicine  David R. Davies, NIDDK, NIH  Richard M. Epand, McMaster University  John Gergely, Boston Biomedical Research Institute  Rufus Lumry, University of Minnesota  James H. Prestegard, University of Georgia  Peter G. Wolynes, University of California, San Diego
2002	David DeRosier, Brandeis University Rosenstiel Center  Ken Dill, UCSF  William A. Eaton, NIDDK, NIH  Joachim Frank, HHMI Health Research Wadsworth Center  Hans Frauenfelder, Los Alamos National Laboratory  Robert Gennis, University of Illinois, Urbana  Wayne Hendrickson, Columbia University  Terrell L. Hill, UCSC  Joseph Hoffman, Yale University School of Medicine  H. Ronald Kaback, UCLA  Irwin Kuntz, UCSF  Jon Lederer, University of Maryland Medical Biotech Institute  John L. Markley, University of Wisconsin  John Schellman, University of Oregon  Ignacio Tinoco, UC Berkeley  Peter H. von Hippel, University of Oregon  Stephen White, UC Irvine School of Medicine  Clare Woodward, University of Minnesota  Bruno Zimm, UCSD
2001	Helen Berman, Rutgers University  Ludwig Brand, Johns Hopkins University  George Feher, UCSD  Manuel Morales, University of the Pacific  Wilma Olson, Rutgers University  Arieh Warshel, University of Southern California
2000	Gary K. Ackers, Washington University School of Medicine  Richard W. Aldrich, Stanford University School of Medicine  Clay M. Armstrong, University of Pennsylvania  Daniel Axelrod, University of Michigan  Robert L. Baldwin, Stanford University School of Medicine  Francisco Bezanilla, University of California, Los Angeles  Rodney L. Biltonen, University of Virginia Health Science Center  Kevin P. Campbell, University of Iowa College of Medicine  Charles R. Cantor, Sequenom, Inc.  Donald L. D. Caspar, Florida State University  Carolyn Cohen, Brandeis University  Donald M. Crothers, Yale University  David Eisenberg, University of California, Los Angeles  S. Walter Englander, University of Pennsylvania Medical School  Bertil Hille, University of Washington  Barry Honig, Columbia University  Wayne Hubbell, University of California, Los Angeles  Hugh E. Huxley, Brandeis University  William P. Jencks, Brandeis University  Jack H. Kaplan, Oregon Health Sciences University  Peter S. Kim, Whitehead Institute of Biomedical Research  Susan Lowey, University of Vermont  J. Andrew McCammon, University of California, San Diego  Harden M. McConnell, Stanford University  Gerard Meissner, University of North Carolina  Peter B. Moore, Yale University  V. Adrian Parsegian, National Institutes of Health  Thomas D. Pollard, Salk Institute for Biological Studies  Frederic M. Richards, Yale University  Michael G. Rossman, Purdue University  Harold Scheraga, Cornell University  Andrew P. Somlyo, University of Virginia  Avril V. Somlyo, University of Virginia  Robert M. Stroud, University of California, San Francisco  Andrew G. Szent-Gyorgyi, Brandeis University  Thomas E. Thompson, University of Virginia School of Medicine  Richard W. Tsien, Stanford University School of Medicine  Watt W. Webb, Cornell University  Annemarie Weber, Emeritus Member