2023 PNAS Cozzarelli Prize Recipients

The annual Cozzarelli Prize at PNAS acknowledges papers that reflect scientific excellence and originality. Read the research from the 2023 winners and finalists.

The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States (PNAS) has selected twelve outstanding PNAS papers, six winners and six finalists, for the 2023 Cozzarelli Prize. The award was established in 2005 as the PNAS Paper of the Year Prize and renamed the Cozzarelli Prize in 2007 to honor late PNAS Editor-in-Chief Nicholas R. Cozzarelli. Papers receiving the Cozzarelli Prize were chosen from more than 3,200 research articles published by PNAS in 2023 and represent the six broadly defined classes under which the National Academy of Sciences is organized.