BETHESDA, MD – The Biophysical Society is pleased to announce that Erdinc Sezgin, of SciLifeLab, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, has been named the recipient of the 2026 Early Independent Career Award. Sezgin will be honored at the Society’s 70th Annual Meeting, being held in San Francisco, California from February 21-25, 2026.

Sezgin will be recognized for combining chemistry, physics, biology and computer science to gain fundamental and translational insights into how the biophysics of cells affect health and disease.

“I am delighted that Erdinc was selected to receive the Early Independent Career Award,” said BPS President Lynmarie Thompson of the University of Massachusetts Amherst. “He has had remarkable success in developing and applying novel high throughput techniques to fundamentally important problems of cellular organization in health and disease.”

About the Award – The Early Independent Career Award, established in 2025, recognizes a faculty member, independent investigator, or staff scientist at an academic institution, national research lab, or private research organization with six or fewer years of service who has made noteworthy contributions in biophysics research and service during their independence.

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