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The ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Sir Hans Krebs medal will be presented to Elke Deuerling from the University of Konstanz, Germany, who has made important contributions shaping our view of the chaperoning and processing of nascent polypeptide chains emerging from the ribosome exit tunnel. She will talk at the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Congress 2027 on ‘New principles of co-translational protein biogenesis’. (Photo credit: © Inka Reiter / University of Konstanz.)

The ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Datta medal will go to Johanna Ivaska of the University of Turku, Finland, in recognition of her significant contributions to the discovery of novel integrin activities and the identification of pathways regulating cancer invasion and metastasis. Her plenary lecture at the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Congress 2027 will be on ‘Cell–matrix interactions in cancer progression’.

The ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Theodor Bücher medal will be presented to Vivek Malhotra of the Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, Spain. He is recognized for seminal contributions to the field of protein secretion including the discovery of TANGO1, a vital transmembrane protein that helps export large, bulky molecules. Vivek Malhotra will speak at the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Congress 2027 on ‘Beyond the dogma: A new pathway controlling collagen secretion and tissue repair’.

Lastly, the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Rita Levi-Montalcini medal, awarded for outstanding achievements in biochemistry and molecular biology or related areas, with an emphasis on work on the molecular basis of disease or treatment, will go to Sir Adrian Bird, from the University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom. Adrian Bird is known for his pioneering research on DNA methylation and the discovery of CpG islands, and implications for diseases such as Rett syndrome. His plenary lecture at the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Congress 2027 will be on ‘Genetic and epigenetic modulators of the transcriptome’.