The prestigious ICMRBS Founders’ Medal recognizes exceptional contributions by young scientists to the development and progress of the field of magnetic resonance in biological systems. The 2026 awardee has been selected by the Founders’ Medal Committee and will be presented by Chair Mei Hong at the opening ceremony of the 31st ICMRBS meeting in Davos, Switzerland, on August 23, 2026. The awardee will receive a medal and U.S. $3,000 and will present a lecture at the conference.
Awardee 2026: Tuo Wang, Michigan State University, USA
https://icmrbs.ws.gc.cuny.edu/founders-medal
Travel Awards of the Swiss National Science Foundation
The Swiss National Science Foundation sponsors Travel Awards of 750 CHF for each of 12 selected PhD students and postdocs. The awards can be spent on travel costs and partial accommodation, up to the limit of 750 CHF per awardee. The awardees were selected by the international scientific committee, based on scientific quality of the submitted abstract, and each awardee will give an oral presentation at the conference. The awards were open to PhD students and postdocs worldwide except students from Switzerland. 8 PhD students and 4 postdocs were selected.
We are happy to announce the following recipients:
Antonia Neumeier, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Asiesh Kachadan, Indian Institute of Science, India
Chiara Pastorello, CNRS, France
Dominique Lagasca, UT Southwestern Medical Center, USA
Dong-Hyun Seo, Korea Basic Science Institute, Republic of Korea
Irina Ritsch, Scripps Research, USA
Iulia Bodnariuc, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Jennifer Adam, University Frankfurt, Germany
Jonghyuk Im, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea
Oskar Engberg, Leipzig University, Germany
Sem Peijnenborgh, Medical University of Graz, Austria
Shatabdi Chakraborty, University of Melbourne, Australia
Bruker Travel Awards
Bruker sponsors Travel Awards of 300 CHF for each of 10 selected PhD students. The awardees were selected by the international scientific committee based on a motivation letter, describing briefly the current science as well as the financial situation of the applicant (1 page max., deadline May 15).
We are happy to announce the following recipients:
Andrea Orsetti, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Cristina V. López Gallego, Leiden University, The Netherlands
Durga Prasad, Ghent University, Belgium
Francisco Javier Alonso Martínez, Margarita Salas Biological Research Center Madrid, Spain
Habin Yu and Hyeonjun Lee, Korea University, Republic of Korea (shared award)
Jana Petkus, University of Latvia, Latvia
Sergio Novelli, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Rana Mansour, Medical College of Wisconsin, USA
Souvik Ghosh, IIsc, India
Yu Hao Lin, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
ICMRBS Community Growth Awards
This award is given to every PI who participates together with at least two members of their group. The PI will receive a substantial travel award depending on geographic location. Please apply by email to the conference organizers.
We are happy to announce the following recipients:
Anja Böckmann, CNRS DR07, France
Henrike Heise, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany
Izuru Kawamura, Yokohama National University, Japan
Thibault Viennet, Aarhus University, Denmark
Young Ho Jeon, College of Pharmacy, Korea University, Republic of Korea
Zhong Chen, Xiamen University, PR China
Nils-Alexander Lakomek, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany
ShengQi Xiang, University of Science and Technology of China, PR China
ICMRBS Best Junior Poster Awards
14 awards of 300 CHF each are sponsored by ICMRBS.
We are happy to announce the following recipients:
Abel Cherian Varkey, Max-Planck Institute of Multidisciplinary Sciences, Germany
Agnes Eck, Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA), Austria
Brian Grossman, UMBC, USA
Clarisse Fourel, CNRS, France
Elsa Stern, University of Basel, Switzerland
Fan Shi, University of Science and Technology of China, PR China
Gonzalo Pérez Mejías, DZNE, Germany
Guennadi Kozlov, McGill University, Canada
Kleopatra Savvidou, University College London, United Kingdom
Maiki Tamura, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Science (IMS), Japan
Marco Max Ruckstuhl, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
María Vila Gonzalo, Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas Margarita Salas (CIB-CSIC), Spain
Souvik Ghosh, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), India
Yasmina Bouzariouh, CNRS Centre national de la recherche scientifique, France
ICMRBS Best Junior Talks
14 awards of 300 CHF each are sponsored by ICMRBS.
We are happy to announce the following recipients:
Biswa Prasanna Mishra, Griffith University, Australia
Christina Jordan, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Federico Napoli, Institute of Science and Technology, Austria
Florian Lindemann, TU Dortmund, Germany
Laetitia Rozic, Biozentrum Basel, Switzerland
Ieva Goldberga, University of Warwick, United Kingdom
Jehanne Procaccia, Université Paris Cité, France
Johannes Schmoll, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Katja Bekcic, Uppsala University, Sweden
Ntallis Charalampos, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Sergei Kuzin, MPI Göttingen, Germany
Tanguy Le Marchand, ENS Lyon, France
Yasmin Ben-Ishay, Weizman Institute of Science, Israel
Yohei Miyanoiri, University of Osaka, Japan
MDPI Biomolecules Junior Poster Awards
MDPI generously sponsors Biomolecules Poster Awards in the amount of 1000 USD.
We are happy to announce the following recipients:
Juan Felipe Alvarado Daza, Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Germany
Tiantian Xiong, University of Basel, Switzerland
Yuta Sawada, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Elsevier JMR/JMRO Junior Poster Awards
Elsevier generously sponsors JMR/JMRO Poster Awards in the amount of 500 USD.
We are happy to announce the following recipients:
Fehmke Reichardt, MPI for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Germany
Sophia Hazlett, University College London, United Kingdom
Springer Nature NPJ Structural Biology Junior Poster Awards
Springer Nature generously sponsors NPJ Structural Biology Poster Awards in the amount of 500 CHF.
We are happy to announce the following recipients:
Anna Ulliana, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Henry Annecke, Uppsala University, Sweden
Springer Nature Journal of Biomolecular NMR, quartile 2 in Spectroscopy Junior Poster Prizes
The Journal of Biomolecular NMR is delighted to provide three book vouchers, up to the value of 200 CHF each, for the recipients to choose from the vast variety of books they have on their catalogue.
We are happy to announce the following recipients:
Aleksandra Kusova, DZNE, Germany
Darshil Kapadia, University College London, United Kingdom
Róbert Šándor, CEITEC Masaryk University, Czech Republic
Royal Society of Chemistry Junior Poster Prizes
The Royal Society of Chemistry are delighted to provide 10 books from our book series New Developments in NMR (rsc.li/nmr) as poster prizes for this meeting. Focusing on novel aspects of method and instrumentation development, applications in emerging fields and new techniques and technologies, this series documents the important advances being made in NMR spectroscopy. The books provide comprehensive introductions to the relevant theory to facilitate greater understanding and to encourage wider usage of NMR techniques, making them ideal for students, researchers and practicing analytical scientists, as well as manufacturers with an interest in the instrumentation.
We are happy to announce the following recipients:
Alon Wenger, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Cyrus Rastegar, UT Southwestern Medical Center, USA
Giulia Fischetti, ZHAW, Switzerland
Jarne Mölbitz, University of Luebeck, Germany
Koon Lee, MPI for Multidisciplinary Science, Germany
Matthias Schuster, UZH, Switzerland
Rana Mansour, Medical College of Wisconsin, USA
Reina Iwase, Aarhus University, Denmark
Yiran Chen, Kyoto University, Japan
Yu Hao Lin, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
