The Margaret Oakley Dayhoff Award from the
Biophysical Society
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in
Rockville, Maryland
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, is given to a woman who "holds very high promise or has achieved prominence while developing the early stages of a career in biophysical research".
[Biophysical Society]
Margaret Oakley Dayhoff Award
(last visited Oct. 3, 2012). It is "one of the top national honors" in biophysics.
["UMass Amherst Physicist Wins Prestigious Early Career Award"](_blank)
Oct. 2, 2012. The award was established in 1984 in honor of
Margaret Dayhoff
Margaret Belle (Oakley) Dayhoff (March 11, 1925 – February 5, 1983) was an American physical chemist and a pioneer in the field of bioinformatics. Dayhoff was a professor at Georgetown University Medical Center and a noted research biochem ...
, a biophysicist associated with the
Biophysical Society
The Biophysical Society is an international scientific society whose purpose is to lead the development and dissemination of knowledge in biophysics. Founded in 1958, the Society currently consists of over 7,500 members in academia, government, an ...
and the
National Biomedical Research Foundation.
Award recipients
Source
Biophysical Society* 1984/85:
Dagmar Ringe
Dagmar Ringe (born February 20, 1942) is an American biochemist, educator, and researcher. She is the Harold and Bernice Davis Professor in Aging and Neurodegenerative Disease at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts and holds appointment ...
and
Bonnie Ann Wallace
Bonnie Ann Wallace, FRSC (born 10 August 1951) is a British and American biophysicist and biochemist. She is a professor of molecular biophysics in the department of biological sciences, formerly the department of crystallography, at Birkbeck ...
* 1985/86:
Barbara A. Lewis
* 1986/87:
Barbara E. Ehrlich
* 1987/88:
Rachel E. Klevit
* 1988/89:
Nancy L. Thompson
* 1989/90:
Anne Walter
Anne, alternatively spelled Ann, is a form of the Latin female given name Anna (name), Anna. This in turn is a representation of the Hebrew Hannah (given name), Hannah, which means 'favour' or 'grace'. Related names include Annie (given name), ...
* 1990/91:
Jeanne Rudzki Small
* 1991/92:
Hazel M. Holden and
Francine R. Smith
* 1992/93:
Carol Vandenberg
* 1993/94:
Jean S. Baum
* 1994/95:
Hillary C. M. Nelson
* 1995/96:
Lynne Regan
Lynne Regan is a Professor of Biochemistry and Biotechnology at the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Edinburgh. Previously, she was a Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University. She was the president ...
* 1996/97:
Susan Marqusee
* 1997/98:
Bonnie Anne Berger
* 1998/99:
Judith R. Mourant
* 1999:
Lydia Gregoret
* 2000/2001:
Millie M. Georgiadis and
Ka Yee Christina Lee
Ka Yee Christina Lee is a Professor of Chemistry and the Provost at the University of Chicago, where she succeeded Daniel Diermeier on February 1, 2020. She works on membrane biophysics, including protein–lipid interactions, Alzheimer's dise ...
* 2002:
Gina MacDonald
* 2003:
Hao Wu
* 2004:
Dorothee Kern
Dorothee Kern, (born 1966) is a professor of Biochemistry at Brandeis University and former player for the East German national basketball team.
In 2016, she cofounded Relay Therapeutics, a Massachusetts-based drug research company studying the ...
* 2005:
Sarah Keller
* 2006:
Anne Hinderliter
* 2007:
Kalina Hristova
* 2008:
Judith Klein-Seetharaman
* 2009:
Teresa Giraldez,
Adrienne L. Fairhall, and
Jin Zhang
* 2010:
Crina Nimigean and
Maria Spies
* 2011:
Diane Lidke
* 2012:
Lucy R. Forrest
* 2013:
Jennifer L. Ross and
Katherine Henzler-Wildman
* 2014:
Sarah Veatch
Sarah Louise Veatch is an American biophysicist, associate professor of biophysics at University of Michigan.
Early life
Veatch was raised in Brookline, Massachusetts by her mother, a medical doctor, and her father, William R. Veatch, a memb ...
* 2015:
Antonina Roll-Mecak
* 2016:
Sophie Dumont and
Polina Lishko
* 2017:
Julie S. Biteen
* 2018:
Carrie L. Partch
* 2019:
Meytal Landau
* 2020:
Valeria Vásquez
* 2021:
Randy Stockbridge
* 2022:
Gabriela Schlau-Cohen
* 2023:
Elizabeth H. Kellogg
See also
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List of biology awards
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List of prizes, medals, and awards for women in science
This list of science and technology awards for women is an index to articles about notable awards made to women for work in science and the STEM (Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) fields generally. It includes awards for astronomy ...
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Prizes named after people
A prize is an award to be given to a person or a group of people (such as sporting teams and organizations) to recognize and reward their actions and achievements.
Notes
External links
Margaret Oakley Dayhoff Award pageDayhoff Award NLM
American science and technology awards
Awards established in 1984
Biophysics awards
Science awards honoring women
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