SBE

SBE PRIZES

The Sociedad de Biofísica de España (SBE) awards every year the following prizes:

1. Premio Bruker.
2. Premio SBE-Izasa-Bekman-Coulter.

Premio Bruker
Prof. IGNACIO FITA PRESENTED WITH THE BRUKER AWARD June 3, 2011, Prof. Ignacio Fita and D. Pedro Vázquez, representing Bruker Española SA, at XI SBE Congress in Murcia.	Premio Bruker/Bruker Prize. This Prize is generously supported by Bruker Española SA (3000 € for the last edition) and is addressed to recognize the excellence of the work in the field of Biophysics carried out in Spain. Preference is given to members of the SBE. In 2011, this Prize has been awarded to Ignacio Fita Rodríguez from IRB and IBMB-CSIC, Barcelona, for his work on Structural Biology, using mainly protein crystallography.	The past winners of this Prize were: 1998: Rafael Picorel (Zaragoza) 2000: Miquel Pons (Barcelona) 2002 José María Valpuesta (Madrid) 2004 Javier Sancho (Zaragoza) 2006. Jesús Pérez Gil (Madrid) 2008. José García de la Torre (Murcia) 2010. Modesto Orozco (Barcelona) and José Luis Rodríguez Arrondo (Bilbao)

Premio SBE-Izasa-Bekman-Coulter.
Dr TERESA GIRÁLDEZ PRESENTED WITH THE IZASA-BECMAN COULTER AWARD. . June 3, 2011. From lef to right, D. Xavier Bozal, representative of Izasa-Beckman-Coulter, Dr. Giráldez and Prof. Juan C. Gómez Fernández at XI SBE Congress in Murcia.	This work is addressed to recognize the work of a biophysicist carried out in Spain, but the scientist must be under 37 years old. It has been generously sponsored in 2011 by Izasa-Beckman-Coulter (2000€ in this edition). In the 2011 edition it has been awarded to Teresa Giráldez Fernández (Hospital Universitario Ntra. Sra. de Candelaria y Universidad de La Laguna) for her work on transport and channels .	This Prize was awarded in 2010 for the first time under the denomination of SBE Prize to Pau Bernardó (Barcelona).