A pleasure to have supported César Antonio Ramirez-Sarmiento from the Protein Biophysics, Biochemistry and Bioinformatics Lab (PB3) at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Chile, with an IUBMB Mid-Career Research Fellowship Award in 2019. Since then his article was selected Paper of the Year by the Biophysical Journal, and was recently elected to the Executive Council of The Protein Society – Congratulations!