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About the award
The Shizhang Bei International Award was added to the Shizhang Bei Award in 2013 to commend internationally renowned scientists with outstanding achievements in the field of biophysics and who have made positive contributions to the development of China's biophysics. The award will expand the international influence of the Biophysical Society of China (BSC), increase the attention of the international community on China's scientific research and development, strengthen exchanges and cooperation between global scholars and Chinese scientists, and guide the focus of Chinese scientists towards cutting-edge trends in biophysics around the world.
Award winners
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David Stuart
David Stuart is the winner of Shizhang Bei International Award in 2013. He is the professor at the University of Oxford.
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Yoshinori Ohsumi
Yoshinori Ohsumi is the winner of the Shizhang Bei International Award in 2015. He is the professor at Japan's Tokyo Institute of Technology, and the Nobel prize laureate of 2016.
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Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan is the winner of the Shizhang Bei Award for Young Biophysicists in 2016. He is the president of the UK's Royal Society and the 2009 Nobel Prize laureate.
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Lieping Chen
Lieping Chen is one of the winners of the Shizhang Bei International Award of 2017. He is a professor at Yale University.
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Tom Blundell
Sir Tom Blundell is the winner of the Shizhang Bei International Award in 2017. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of London.
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Helen H. Hobbs
Helen H. Hobbs is the winner of the Shizhang Bei International Award of 2018. She serves as a professor at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, and is an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and an academician with the National Academy of Sciences of the United States. She won a 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences and the 2018 Harrington Prize for Innovation in Medicine.
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Robert Gayle Roeder
Robert Gayle Roeder (also known as Robert G. Roeder) is the winner of the Shizhang Bei International Award of 2019. He serves as a professor at the Rockefeller University, and is an academician with the National Academy of Sciences of the United States and a foreign member of the EMBO, an organization of more than 1800 leading researchers that promotes excellence in the life sciences in Europe and beyond.
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Zhijian James Chen
Zhijian James Chen is the winner of the Shizhang Bei International Award of 2020. He is a Chinese-American biochemist and professor in the Department of Molecular Biology at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and an academician with the National Academy of Sciences of the United States.
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Erwin Neher
Erwin Neher is the winner of the Shizhang Bei International Award 2021. He received a Master’s degree from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1967 and a doctorate in physics from the Technical University of Munich in 1970. He worked as a research associate at Yale University from 1975 to 1976. Neher finished his habilitation treatise in physics at the University of Göttingen in 1981, and joined the Fairchild Scholars Program at California Institute of Technology in 1989. He has served as a research associate at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry since 1972, and has been the director of the institute since 1983. He is an honorary professor at the University of Göttingen and the laureate of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1991.
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Dinshaw J Patel
Dinshaw J Patel is the winner of the Shizhang Bei International Award 2023. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He currently holds the position of Abby Rockefeller Mauze Chair of Experimental Therapeutics at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.