2025
The 2025 European Biophysics Journal (EBJ) Prizes were awarded at the Rome 2025 EBSA Congress, after selection from papers published in the Journal in 2022. The papers recognised were:
Andreas Burn, Martin Schneiter, Manuel Ryser, Peter Gehr, Jaroslav Rička & Martin Frenz
A quantitative interspecies comparison of the respiratory mucociliary clearance mechanism
Eur Biophys J (2022) 51:51-65
DOI: 10.1007/s00249-021-01584-8
Karlo Komorowski, Julia Preobraschenski, Marcelo Ganzella, Jette Alfken, Charlotte Neuhaus, Reinhard Jahn & Tim Salditt
Neurotransmitter uptake of synaptic vesicles studied by X-ray diffraction
Eur Biophys J (2022) 51:465-482
DOI: 10.1007/s00249-022-01609-w
Haoqing Wang, Peyman Obeidy, Zihao Wang, Yunduo Zhao, Yao Wang, Qian Peter Su, Charles D. Cox & Lining Arnold Ju
Fluorescence-coupled micropipette aspiration assay to examine calcium mobilization caused by red blood cell mechanosensing
Eur Biophys J (2022) 51:135-146
DOI: 10.1007/s00249-022-01595-z
2023
The first European Biophysics Journal (EBJ) Prizes were awarded at the Stockholm 2023 EBSA Congress, after selection from papers published in the Journal in 2020 and 2021. The papers recognised were:
Sarah Verbeek, Neha Awasthi, Nikolas Teiwes, Ingo Mey, Jochen Hub and Andreas Janshoff “How arginine derivatives alter the stability of lipid membranes: dissecting the roles of side chains, backbone and termini”, Eur Biophys J (2021) 50:127-142 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00249-021-01503-x
Joanna Zemła, Justyna Bobrowska, Andrzej Kubiak, Tomasz Zieliński, Joanna Pabijan, Katarzyna Pogoda, Piotr Bobrowski and Małgorzata Lekka “Indenting soft samples (hydrogels and cells) with cantilevers possessing various shapes of probing tip”, Eur Biophys J (2020) 49:485-495 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00249-020-01456-7
The Prizes awarded were recognised also in an editorial published in EBJ: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00249-023-01691-8