The Gregorio Weber International Prize in Biological Fluorescence (Weber Prize) is awarded for research related to a doctoral (or equivalent) dissertation. All fields of biological fluorescence (experimental, theoretical, or applied) are eligible. The award is conferred approximately every three years and is presented at a selected international scientific meeting. The award is international in scope. A scientific panel evaluates submitted dissertations, and a few finalists will be identified. The winner will receive a cash award of $1,000 and an invitation to present an acceptance lecture at the Weber Symposium. The remaining finalists receive honorable mention awards. Weber Prizes were conferred in 2023, 2017, 2014, 2011, 2008, 2005, and 2002.
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The next Weber Prize will be awarded in 2025.
2025 Weber Prize
The winners of the Weber Prize 2025 will be announced on April 30th, 2025.
The winner will receive a $1,000 cash award and an invitation to present an acceptance lecture at the 2025 Weber Symposium in Genoa-Italy.

Gregorio Weber International Prize in Biological Fluorescence
Selection Committees 2025
Coordinators:
Review Panel:

David M. Jameson
University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA.

Leonel Malacrida
Universidad de la República & Institut Pasteur de Montevideo, Uruguay.
Greg Reinhart
Fernando Stefani
Laura Estrada
Per Nik Hedde
Luca Lanzano
Lorenzo Scipioni
Thorsten Wohland
Chiara Stringari
Ilaria Testa
Elizabeth Hinde
Weber Prize Administrator
For questions and comments about the Weber Prize 2025 please contact:
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David Jameson
djameson@hawaii.edu or webersymposium@gmail.com
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Leonel Malacrida
Award Requirements
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The dissertation must have been accepted and the doctorate conferred between January 1, 2023, and December 31, 2024.
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English is the preferred language. Dissertations not in English must include at least a 5-page summary in English.
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Materials should be submitted in digital format (preferably in PDF) to djameson@hawaii.edu and cc'ed to webersymposium@gmail.com.
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Deadline for submission: March 31, 2025.

Previous editions awards
Winner 2025
Dr. Yanbo Wang
Johns Hopkins University, Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry, School of Medicine, USA.
Thesis Title: Genome Oligopaint via Local Denaturation Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization (GOLD FISH)
Honorable mention:
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Bahar Asadipour
Laboratory for Optics and Bioscience, École Polytechnique, Paris, France.
Thesis title: Nonlinear optical microscopy of nervous tissue: lipid and metabolism imaging
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Jacob Kastel-Hansen
School at the Faculty of Science,University of Copenhagen
Thesis title: Accelerating Biological Discoveries by Decoding Single-Particle Spatiotemporal Dynamics Using Machine Learning
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Ashleigh Solano
Department of Science, Melbourne School of Physics. THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE
Thesis title: Brightness correlation spectroscopy quantifies protein dynamics as a function of stoichiometry within live cells.
Selection Committees 2025
Coordinators:
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David M. Jameson, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA
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Leonel Malacrida, Universidad de la Republica & Institut Pasteur de Montevideo, Uruguay.
Review Panel:
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Laura Estrada – Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Francesco Cardarelli - Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy
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Per Nik Hedde - Systems Engineer at Zeiss, Gernamy
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Elizabeth Hinde – University of Melbourne, Australia
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Luca Lanzano – University of Catania, Italy
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Gregory Reinhart – Emeritus Texas AandM - USA
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Lorenzo Scipioni – Centre de Recherche en Cancerologie de Toulouse, France
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Fernando Stefani - CIBION, Argentina
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Chiara Stringari – CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, France
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Ilaria Testa – KTH, SciLifeLab, Sweden
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Thorsten Wohland - National University of Singapore, Singapore