2025 SMB Awards

The Society for Mathematical Biology is pleased to announce the recipients of its 2025 Society Awards. These individuals will be honored at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Mathematical Biology.

Mark Lewis, University of Victoria, Canada, will receive the Akira Okubo Prize, awarded jointly with the Japanese Society for Mathematical Biology.

Mohit K Jolly, Indian Institute of Science, India, will receive the Arthur T. Winfree Prize.

Kathleen Curtius, UC San Diego, USA, will be the recipient of the Leah Edelstein-Keshet Prize.

Jana Gevertz, The College of New Jersey, USA , will receive the Distinguished Service Award.

Simon Martina-Perez, Oxford University, UK will be the recipient of the H. D. Landahl Mathematical Biophysics Award.

Fred Adler, University of Utah, USA will be the recipient of the John Jungck Prize for Excellence in Education.

Veronica Ciocanel, Duke University, USA will receive the Lee A. Segel Prize for best paper as corresponding author on the article “Parameter identifiability in PDE models of fluorescence recovery after photobleaching (Ciocanel et al. 2024)”, published in the Bulletin of Mathematical Biology.

Matthew Penn, University of Oxford, UK will receive the Lee A. Segel Prize for best student paper as leading author on the article “Asymptotic analysis of optimal vaccination policies (Penn and Donnelly 2024)”, published in the Bulletin of Mathematical Biology.

Stacey Smith?, University of Ottawa, Canada , and Marc Mangel, UC Santa Cruz, USA, will be named Fellows of the Society for Mathematical Biology.