Katrin Beyer is the recipient of the 2006 Kurt Jellinger Prize for Outstanding Scientific Writing in Neuropathology. This prize is awarded each year on the basis of a review article submitted to Acta Neuropathologica. Dr. Beyer’s prize winning paper “Alpha-synuclein: structure, posttranslational modification and alternative splicing as aggregation enhancers” is included in this issue. …