The Life Best Paper Award is granted annually to highlight publications of high quality, scientific significance, and extensive influence. The evaluation committee members choose three articles of exceptional quality that were published in the journal the year before the previous year and announce them online by the end of June.
The Prize:
– Two research articles and one review will be selected.
– One review award: CHF 500 and a chance to publish a paper free of chargein 2025 after peer review.
– Two research article awards:
a. The first prize: CHF 500 and a chance to publish a paper free of charge in Life in 2025 after peer review.
b. The second prize: CHF 300 and a chance to publish a paper free of charge in Life in 2025 after peer review.
Eligibility and Requirements
Selection Criteria
The increase in incidence of superficial fungal infections combined with the emergence of antifungal resistance represents both a global health challenge and a considerable economic burden. Recently, dermatophytes, the main culprit causing superficia...
Diabetes mellitus (DM) patients frequently develop diabetic foot ulcers (DFU) which are generally infected by a community of microorganisms, mainly Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. These bacteria exhibit a multi-drug resistance profi...
A protometabolic approach to the origins of life assumes that the conserved biochemistry of metabolism has direct continuity with prebiotic chemistry. One of the most important amino acids in modern biology is aspartic acid, serving as a nodal metabo...
Lluís Ribas de Pouplana
Katalin Prokai-Tatrai
Pabulo Henrique Rampelotto
Daniele Focosi
