28-May-2026
The Ivano Bertini Award recognises a significant achievement in frontier research that utilises an integrative structural biology approach. This year, the Bertini award was given to José-María Carazo Garcia - director of the Instruct Image Processing Centre (IP2C) in Madrid (Instruct-ES) - in recognition of his work on data processing and management software for cryo-electron microscopy. José-María is also the director of Instruct-ES, as well as the head of the Instruct-ERIC Council.
The award was presented by Martin Blackledge of IBS Grenoble, who previously won the Bertini award for his pioneering work on intrinsically disordered proteins using NMR. Following this, José-María gave a talk on the current state and future directions of cryo-electron microscopy.
José-María said “I am extremely happy to have been nominated. The Ivano Bertini Award is special; it focuses only on the work performed in the last 6 years, and for that, it makes me feel young and productive, it reconnects me to other very young times in my life (my PhD and my postdoc) when I was not thinking of receiving awards, but I knew I had to focus on excellence in research.
For somebody who has always mixed physics (my basic University training), biology (my PhD) and algorithms and software (while at IBM), an Award that highlights "Integration" gives personal reassurance that the hard effort while working between disciplines has been worth and that it is truly appreciated and recognised by my colleagues in the field. I feel very fortunate, indeed.”
We are grateful to Bruker BioSpin for sponsoring this award.
