Professor Elspeth Garman (1976) is the first recipient of the 2018 Sosei Heptares Prize for Biophysics from the British Biophysical Society.

Elspeth was awarded the prize for her outstanding contributions to our understanding of radiation damage, which has contributed to the improvement of X-ray crystallography and structural biology. The Prize was presented to Professor Garman after her Prize Lecture at the British Biophysical Society Biennial Meeting at University of Southampton (11-13 July, 2018) by Nobel Prize winner Dr Richard Henderson.