Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) Announces 2025 Cozzarelli Prize Recipients: Six Outstanding Papers Honored for Scientific Advancement

USACO Corporation (Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo; President: Shinichi Yamakawa) is pleased to announce that the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) has unveiled the six recipients of the 2025 Cozzarelli Prize.

The Cozzarelli Prize recognizes papers that demonstrate scientific excellence and originality. Each year, one outstanding paper is selected from each of the six scientific classes represented within the National Academy of Sciences (NAS).

2025 Award Categories and Winning Papers

・Class I: Physical and Mathematical Sciences

“Physics-tailored machine learning reveals unexpected physics in dusty plasmas”

https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2505725122 > (Open Access Paper)

・Class II: Biological Sciences

“The emergence of eukaryotes as an evolutionary algorithmic phase transition” https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2422968122 >

(Open Access Paper)

・Class III: Engineering and Applied Sciences

“Viscoelastic structural damping enables broadband low-frequency sound absorption”

https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2520808122 >

・Class IV: Biomedical Sciences

“Inhibiting 15-PGDH blocks blood–brain barrier deterioration and protects mice from Alzheimer’s disease”