Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry

RCM/Beynon Award

Nunzio Tuccitto, Lara Lobo, Agnes Tempex, Ivan Delfanti, Patrick Chapon, Stela Canulescu, Nerea Bordel, Johann Michler and Antonino Licciardell

The 2010 winning paper, awarded by an ad hoc Sub-committee of the RCM Editorial Board, for a 2008/2009 published paper describing an innovative advance in mass spectrometric instrumentation or methodology that has had the greatest immediate impact in its particular sub-discipline is:
"Quantification of human insulin-like growth factor-1 and qualitative detection of its analogues in plasma using liquid chromatography/electrospray ionisation tandem mass spectrometry" (Rapid Commun. Mass Spectrom. 2008; 22: 477-485)
Michael Bredehöft , Wilhelm Schänzer, Mario Thevis

About the Award

In 2004, to mark the 80th birthday of John Beynon, the founding Editor of Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry (RCM), the publishers (John Wiley and Sons, Ltd.) established an annual award named the 'RCM Beynon Prize'. This award, consisting of a monetary award of $1000 (US) plus a certificate for each contributing author, is awarded by an ad hoc Sub-committee of the Editorial Board of RCM, based on the following criterion.

The prize will be awarded annually to the corresponding author(s) of the paper, published in RCM over the previous two calendar years that, in the opinion of the Awards Sub-committee, describes an innovative advance in mass spectrometric instrumentation or methodology that has had the greatest immediate impact in its particular sub-discipline over the previous two calendar years (i.e., published in the previous two volumes of RCM).

Previous Winners

2009
Xiaoting Tang, James E. Bruce and Herbert H. Hill, Jr., of the Department of Chemistry, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA

2008
Romulus Mihalca, Yuri E. M. van der Burgt, Liam A. McDonnell, Marc Duursma, Iliya Cerjak, Albert J. R. Heck and Ron M. A. Heeren of the FOM Institute, Amsterdam and the University of Utrecht

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