The deadline is approaching to submit your nominations for the Ivano Bertini Award 2026.
The Bertini Award is presented at the Instruct Biennial Structural Biology Conference, and honours researchers with a significant achievement in any area of integrated structural biology.
Ivano Bertini was a pioneer of innovative methodologies in the field of NMR spectroscopy. The Bertini award is sponsored by Bruker, the world-leading manufacturer of NMR spectrometers.
Bertini championed technology integration as a foundation for correlative structural biology - The award recognises breakthrough research in scientific knowledge or technology development in integrated structural biology techniques.
Only one nominator is required per submission.
The deadline for nominations is 17:00 CEST on 30 September 2025. The winner will be announced 28 May 2026 at the IBSBC2026 in Brussels, Belgium.
Bertini Award 2024 winner Martin Blackledge (centre-left) presented with the prize in Cascais, Portugal, at the Instruct Biennial Structural Biology Conference 2024. The award was presented by 2022 winner Sjors Scheres (left), Eric Leonardis of Bruker BioSpin (centre-right), and Instruct Heaf of Operations Claudia Alén Amaro (right).
Previous winners of the award are:
2024 - Martin Blackledge (IBS Grenoble)
2022 - Sjors Scheres (MRC LMB)
2019 - Wolfgang Baumeister (Max Planck)
2017 - Lucia Banci (CERM)
2015 - Stephen Cusack FRS (EMBL)