The European Biophysics Journal Prizes 2025: Recognising biophysical science at sub-cellular, cellular and tissue levels of organisation

Journal article : Review

The European Biophysics Journal Prizes for 2025, awarded at the European Biophysical Societies Association (EBSA) Congress in Rome last July, recognised three of the outstanding papers published by the Journal in 2022 and 2023. In making these awards, the Journal and EBSA again sought to recognise publications which were already proving their impact. The studies recognised are diverse and highlight the vitality of biophysical science in the 2020s. They concern studies of (i) synaptic vesicles undergoing glutamate uptake, (ii) red blood cells under pressure and the effects of mechanically triggered calcium influx, and (iii) how ciliary beating, the resulting wave effects and downstream transport processes interrelate in trachea. As such these Prizes recognise excellent biophysical science at sub-cellular, cellular and tissue levels of organisation.

Authors: Gilbert, RJC

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Publisher: Springer
• Journal: European Biophysics Journal with Biophysics Letters
• Volume: 55
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 3-7
• Publication date: 2026-02-06
• Acceptance date: 2026-01-23
• DOI: 10.1007/s00249-026-01822-x
• EISSN: 1432-1017
• ISSN: 0175-7571
• Language: English
• Keywords: Mechanosensing; Synaptic vesicles; Cell membrane ion channels; Metachronal waves and transport; Ciliary beating; Small-angle X-ray scattering
• Subtype: Review