Steven M. Block of Stanford University who was chosen for his innovative approaches to broaden our understanding of mechanical forces on the structure and function of biological macromolecules;
David S. Cafiso of the University of Virginia who was chosen for his seminal contributions to our understanding of the electrostatic properties of membrane bilayers, membrane protein structure, and protein-lipid interactions;
G. Marius Clore of the National Institutes of Health, NIDDK who was chosen for pioneering contributions in the development of NMR spectroscopy for structural characterization of biological macromolecules;
Michael A. Edidin of John Hopkins University for his continual, highly original and scholarly contributions to the understanding of biomembranes;
Shelagh Ferguson-Miller of Michigan State University for contributions to understanding the structure and function of integral membrane proteins involved in respiratory electron transport, as well as detergent-based methodologies for isolation, purification and crystallization of membrane proteins; and
Andrew Joshua Wand of the University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine, for numerous advances in the understanding of protein structure, function and dynamics through the application of state-of-the art magnetic resonance methodologies.