The Margaret Oakley Dayhoff Award from the

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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"
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

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:

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* 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

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Margaret Oakley Dayhoff Award page

Dayhoff Award
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Award recipients

See also

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