The Cranefield Awards 2022

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Cranefield. These are awarded for the best papers published in JGP by early-career authors. This year's awards are for papers published in 2022, and the winners were selected by a committee chaired by Alessio Accardi representing both JGP and the Society of General Physiologists. The awards are made to researchers at three different career stages.The Cranefield Graduate Student Award has been awarded to Nicole Godellas from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Working towards her PhD under the mentorship of Claudio Grossman, she produced a combined theoretical and practical analysis of ligand binding to channels (Godellas and Grossman, 2022).The Cranefield Postdoctoral Award was won by Krishna Reddy for work carried out at Weill Cornell Medicine with Olga Boudker and colleagues on the heterogeneity of glutamate binding to an archaeal transporter (Reddy et al., 2022).