WASHINGTON – The editors of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) have selected six outstanding PNAS papers for the 2007 Cozzarelli Prize, an award for papers that reflect the highest standards of scientific excellence and originality.
The award was established in 2005 as the PNAS Paper of the Year Prize and renamed the Cozzarelli Prize in 2007 to honor late PNAS Editor-in-Chief Nicholas R. Cozzarelli. The annual award acknowledges papers published in PNAS during the previous year that reflect exceptional contributions to the scientific disciplines represented by the National Academy of Sciences. The 2007 awards will be presented at the PNAS Editorial Board Meeting on April 27, 2008, in Washington, DC.
Papers receiving the Cozzarelli Prize were chosen from more than 3,600 research articles published by PNAS in 2007 and represent the six broadly defined classes under which the National Academy of Sciences is organized.
2007 Cozzarelli Prize Recipients
Class I (Physical and Mathematical Sciences)
“Understanding the nanoparticle-protein corona using methods to quantify exchange rates and affinities of proteins for nanoparticles”
by Tommy Cedervall, Iseult Lynch, Stina Lindman, Tord Berggard, Eva Thulin, Hanna Nilsson, Kenneth A. Dawson, and Sara Linse
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.0608582104
A commentary accompanying this article is available:
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/extract/104/7/2029
Class II (Biological Sciences)
“Muller cells are living optical fibers in the vertebrate retina”
by Kristian Franze, Jens Grosche, Serguei N. Skatchkov, Stefan Schinkinger, Christian Foja, Detlev Schild, Ortrud Uckermann, Kort Travis, Andreas Reichenbach, and Jochen Guck
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/104/20/8287
Class III (Engineering and Applied Sciences)
“Faceting ionic shells into icosahedra via electrostatics”
by Graziano Vernizzi and Monica Olvera de la Cruz
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/104/47/18382
Class IV (Biomedical Sciences)
“Targeted Delivery of Proteins across the Blood-Brain Barrier”
by Brian J. Spencer and Inder M. Verma
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.0702170104
A commentary accompanying this article is available:
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/104/18/7315
Class V (Behavioral and Social Sciences)
“Savanna chimpanzees use tools to harvest the underground storage organs of plants”
by R. Adriana Hernandez-Aguilar, Jim Moore, and Travis Rayne Pickering
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/104/49/19210
A commentary accompanying this article is available:
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/104/49/19167</p>
Class VI (Applied Biological, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences)
“Incorporating plant functional diversity effects in ecosystem service assessments”
by Sandra Diaz, Sandra Lavorel, Francesco de Bello, Fabien Quetier, Karl Grigulis, and T. Matthew Robson
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/104/52/20684
This article was cited in the PNAS Land Change Science Special Feature:
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/104/52/20666
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