Prizes

The BSG Early Career Prize and the David Blow Poster Prize.

BSG Early Career Prize

The BSG awards a prize to someone who has had an impact in the field of structural biology (with an emphasis on crystallography) and has recently obtained a personal fellowship, a lectureship or equivalent. The award is presented at the BCA Spring Meeting, where the recipient gives a prize lecture.

Nominations are welcome at any time; please send them to the BSG Secretary.

Past winners

2025
Dr Daren Fearon · DLS
2024
Dr Lindsay Baker · Oxford
2023
Dr Tiago Costa · Imperial
2022
Dr Andrea Thorn · Hamburg
2020
Dr Briony Yorke · Bradford
2019
Dr Paul Elliott · Oxford
2018
Dr Vidya Darbari · QMUL
2017
Dr Atlanta Cook · Edinburgh
2016
Dr Matt Gold · UCL
2015
Dr Simon Newstead · Oxford
2014
Dr Simon Kolstoe · Portsmouth

BSG David Blow Poster Prize

Awarded annually to the best poster presented at the BCA Spring Meeting. The trophy is a piece of Blue John on an oak plinth, both donated by Peter Harrison, owner of the Treak Cliff Cavern at Castleton.

History of the prize and the Blue John trophy (PDF)

Past winners

2026
C. Hunter · Durham
Studying biomolecular interactions with the Dianthus screening platform.
2025
L. Williams · Essex
Damage before destruction? X-ray induced changes in single pulse serial femtosecond crystallography.
2024
A. Silale · Newcastle
Structural basis of iron piracy by a prominent human gut symbiont.
2023
J. Hill · Bradford
UV related cataract formation: insights from serial synchrotron crystallography.
2022
S. Inaba-Inoue · Imperial College
Molecular mechanism of antimicrobial peptide transporter SbmA.
2019
A. Cowan · Melbourne
The first crystal structures of BAK in complex with lipid offer novel insights into oligomerisation and membrane permeabilisation.
2018
E.A. Blackburn · Edinburgh
The long way round - Swapping species and ligands to initiate crystallisation of new protein:macrocycle complexes.
2017
A. A. Bin Abd Aziz · Sheffield
Structural studies on deamidase toxins.
2016
J. Wilson · Sheffield
Structural and functional studies into the tripartite pore forming toxin AHL from pathogenic Aeromonas hydrophila.
2015
G. Mercaldi · São Paulo
Glucose-6-phosphate Dehydrogenase: Where are uncompetitive inhibitors are binding?