Tony Z. Jia

ELSI’s Specially Appointed Associate Professor, Tony Z. Jia, won the Biophysics and Physicobiology Editors’ Choice Award from the Biophysical Society of Japan. The awards are given for unique papers that contribute to biophysics and are selected from papers published in Biophysics and Physicobiology in the previous year (commissioned papers are not eligible in principle) and selected by the Editorial Board.The award-winning paper by Jia is titled “Recent progress in primitive polyester synthesis and membrane-less microdroplet assembly“.

 

The Editor-in-Charge, Kenichi Yoshikawa adds, in the present review article, a working-hypothesis on Origins of Life is discussed based on physico-chemical evidences. This article may attract much interests from the scientist of wide discipline such as biophysics, biochemistry, physics, chemistry, polymer science, biology, etc. [NOTE: reprinted from the Biophysical Society of Japan website https://www.biophys.jp/award/award02.html]

 

The paper was covered as a ELSI Research Highlight: https://www.elsi.jp/en/news_events/highlights/2023/primitive_polyester_synthesis_microdroplet_assembly/