[3dem] Announcing the 2026 K.H. Kuo Award Recipients

[Huilin Li]

Dear 3DEM Community:

The K.H. Kuo Education Fund Award Committee is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2026 K.H. Kuo Awards
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.bsc.org.cn/KuoSymposium/2026/award.html__;!!Mih3wA!HZxPuQu_DVDWZLj-Wo6s93XaPr7gk4rhE3m0Jxwql9LYn9Zv1sHT3iZ6HC95I_PRlB8nk0IWoM6yiImI0Ag$ 

2026 K.H. Kuo Award for Distinguished Scientist in Biological Electron Microscopy
Presented to Dr. Christopher J. Russo
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
For pioneering technological innovations that transformed cryo-electron microscopy by overcoming fundamental physical barriers to high-resolution structure determination.

2026 K.H. Kuo Award for Outstanding Young Scientist in Structural Biology
Presented to Dr. Ellen D. Zhong
Princeton University
For pioneering deep learning methods that reconstruct continuous conformational landscapes from cryo-electron microscopy data, transforming the analysis of structural heterogeneity and advancing structural biology.

Both awards will be presented at the 2026 K.H. Kuo International Symposium on Cryo-EM, to be held in Beijing, China, August 21–25, 2026, where the awardees will deliver invited lectures.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.bsc.org.cn/KuoSymposium/2026/__;!!Mih3wA!HZxPuQu_DVDWZLj-Wo6s93XaPr7gk4rhE3m0Jxwql9LYn9Zv1sHT3iZ6HC95I_PRlB8nk0IWoM6yjIOTE8k$ 

Please join us in warmly congratulating Dr. Russo and Dr. Zhong on these well-deserved honors.

2026 K.H. Kuo Award Committee
Yifan Cheng (Chair), Huilin Li, Fei Sun, Da-Neng Wang, and Z. Hong Zhou

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