Dr. Ad Bax is awarded the 2023 ISMAR Prize for pioneering a series of novel NMR methods enabling determination of structure and dynamics of biological macromolecules in solution. His work had a major impact on transforming NMR spectroscopy into a powerful and readily accessible and well established tool in structural biology and led to important advances in the basic understanding of how biological systems work at the molecular level.
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2023 – Ad Bax
April 23rd, 2023 by Stephan Grzesiek2021 – Kamil Ugurbil
August 11th, 2021 by Holger KlimekProfessor Kamil Ugurbil is awarded the 2021 ISMAR Prize for his many novel and impactful contributions to magnetic resonance imaging. In particular, Prof. Ugurbil has played a central role in the development of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) as an essential tool in the field of neuroscience, including elucidation of fundamental mechanisms by which brain activity leads to contrast in MRI images and development of technology for MRI and fMRI at very high magnetic fields.
2019 – Peter E. Wright
August 6th, 2019 by Stephan GrzesiekThe 2019 ISMAR Prize is awarded to Professor Peter E. Wright and Professor Jane H. Dyson, both of The Scripps Research Institute, for their many ground-breaking contributions to NMR of proteins and peptides, especially in the field of intrinsically disordered proteins, where their work has established one of the most active research areas in molecular biology, biochemistry, and biophysics.
2019 – Jane H. Dyson
August 6th, 2019 by Holger KlimekThe 2019 ISMAR Prize is awarded to Professor Jane H. Dyson and Professor Peter E. Wright, both of The Scripps Research Institute, for their many ground-breaking contributions to NMR of proteins and peptides, especially in the field of intrinsically disordered proteins, where their work has established one of the most active research areas in molecular biology, biochemistry, and biophysics.
2017 – Alexander Pines
August 6th, 2017 by Holger KlimekProfessor Alexander Pines is awarded the 2017 ISMAR prize for his many landmark contributions to magnetic resonance, in particular to solid-state NMR, including time-reversal of dipole-dipole couplings, cross polarization of dilute spins in solids, multiple-quantum spectroscopy, double rotation and dynamic angle spinning of quadrupolar nuclei, the geometric (Berry) phase, ex situ and remote detection, ultralow and zero-field NMR and MRI, optical hyperpolarization and detection, functionalized hyperpolarized Xe as a biosensor, and his leadership as an inspiring teacher and mentor in the field.
2015 – Shimon Vega
August 6th, 2015 by Holger KlimekProfessor Shimon Vega is the winner of the 2015 ISMAR Prize. He receives the award for:
"For pioneering contributions to solid state NMR; in particular for the elucidation of multiple quantum spectroscopy and dynamic nuclear polarization in solid state NMR, and for the Floquet analysis of multiple pulse sequences”
2015 – Hans Wolfgang Spiess
August 6th, 2015 by Holger KlimekProfessor Hans Wolfgang Spiess is the winner of the 2015 ISMAR Prize. He receives the award for:
" For pioneering contributions to solid state NMR; in particular for techniques that elucidate motion in solids by means of two-dimensional NMR, and for applications of solid state NMR to the structure and dynamics of polymers”
2013 – Jack H. Freed
August 6th, 2013 by Holger KlimekProfessor Jack H. Freed is the winner of the 2013 ISMAR Prize. Professor Jack H. Freed was awarded the ISMAR prize for the foundation of modern EPR through an extraordinary range of contributions from mathematics and theory to methodology and instrumentation; and for the application of his ingenious methods of pulsed EPR spectroscopy to fundamental problems in areas from chemistry to biophysics.
2010 – Robert G. Griffin
August 6th, 2010 by Holger KlimekProfessor Robert G. Griffin is the winner of the 2010 ISMAR Prize. The presentation will be presented at the ISMAR 2010 Conference in Florence, Italy in July. Professor Griffin has made outstanding contributions to NMR spectroscopy, in particular, his successful development of high-field dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) as a practical method for sensitivity enhancement in solid-state NMR with magic-angle spinning. His contributions have included the design and construction of novel instrumentation for DNP and the use of nitroxide biradicals to improve DNP sensitivity.
Professor Griffin and co-workers recently demonstrated the ability of DNP to detect and characterize intermediates in the bacteriorhodopsin photocycle, the widely studied prototype of a ubiquitous family of light-driven ion pumps and a model for other members of the versatile family of retinal pigments, including the G-protein coupled receptors in the visual system.
2007 – Seiji Ogawa
August 6th, 2007 by Holger KlimekSeiji Ogawa is the 2007 winner of the ISMAR Prize. Seiji Ogawa is widely recognized for his seminal contributions to NMR, particularly his discovery in 1990 of the BOLD [Blood Oxygenation Level Dependent] contrast method that has revolutionized medical imaging as both a research and clinical tool. He used the magnetic susceptibility difference between oxyhemoglobin and deoxyhemoglobin in the blood to demonstrate contrast in NMR signals from the brain as the blood feeds active neurons. Functional MRI (fMRI) using BOLD is now employed as the principal technique to map the visual, auditory and sensory regions for research in neurobiology and psychology. It is used in surgical planning to identify the motor cortex.
Seiji Ogawa trained as an applied physicist in Tokyo and received his Ph.D. in chemistry from Stanford in 1967. In 1968 he joined the Technical Staff in Biophysics Research at Bell Laboratories, where he stayed for 33 years. Since 2001, he has been Director of the Ogawa Laboratories for Brain Function Research at the Hamano Life Science Research Foundation in Tokyo.
Among other prizes received by Ogawa are the Gold Medal of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (1995), the Biological Physics Prize of the American Physical Society (1996), the Gairdner Award (2003), and the Japan Prize (2003).