JMS Prize 2026

The win­ner of the John Maynard Smith Prize 2026 is Dr Wendy Valen­cia-Mon­toya, cur­rently a Juni­or Fel­low of the Har­vard Soci­ety of Fel­lows, Har­vard Uni­ver­sity, US. Dr Valen­cia-Mon­toya will present her research an the ESEB Hub Con­gress in 2027, and has been offered a fel­low­ship at the Insti­tute for Advanced Study in Berlin.

The run­ner-up is Dr Jan Kreider, cur­rently an EMBO postdoc­tor­al fel­low at Lund Uni­ver­sity, Sweden.