The 2016 Shizhang Bei International Award was granted to Prof. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, 2009 Nobel Prize laureate in chemistry and president of UK's Royal Society. Ramakrishnan was invited to the Institute of Biophysics of China of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) to give a lecture on November 4, 2016, where Rao Zihe, president of the Biophysical Society of China (BSC), presented him with the top award of BSC – the Shizhang Bei Award -- in recognition of his contributions. 

Rao Zihe presents Prof. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan with the Shizhang Bei Award.