BETHESDA, MD – The Biophysical Society is pleased to announce that Joseph D. (Jody) Puglisi, of Stanford University School of Medicine, USA, will receive the 2027 Ignacio Tinoco Award in Physical Chemistry of Macromolecules. Puglisi will be honored at the Society’s 71st Annual Meeting, being held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from February 20-24, 2027.
Puglisi will receive the Ignacio Tinoco Award in Physical Chemistry of Macromolecules for sophisticated NMR studies that have advanced fundamental concepts of RNA recognition and for groundbreaking single-molecule FRET studies of ribosome function, including translational frameshifting, bypassing, stalling, and pausing during elongation.
“Jody is one of the most creative and innovative scientists in the field of translation. His recognition aptly honors the legacy of Ignacio “Nacho” Tinoco, Jody’s mentor, who challenged our community to continually push our fundamental understanding of biophysics,” said BPS President Karen Fleming of Johns Hopkins University. “Jody’s contributions are unique. His research over the past decades has provided physical and structural foundations for RNA’s dynamic role in biology and has revealed many of the most complex yet fundamental properties of RNA-mediated biology. We are honored to recognize him with this award.”
About the Award – The Ignacio "Nacho" Tinoco Award in Physical Chemistry of Macromolecules recognizes an investigator whose work is transformative within physical chemistry of macromolecules, especially nucleic acids. This award honors its namesake whose contributions to the spectroscopic, thermodynamic, structural, and single-molecule study of RNA are fundamental to the understanding of the physical principles of macromolecules.
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