Lab on a Chip awarded some of the most prestigious awards in the miniaturisation sector at the recent µTAS 2011 conference in Seattle, USA .
Editor of the journal Harp Minhas was delighted to announce the winners of the Pioneers of Miniaturisation Prize (supported by Corning Inc), the Widmer Young Researcher Poster Prize and the Art in Science Award (co-sponsored by NIST).
Professor Ali Khademhosseini (Harvard-MIT, USA) received the Pioneers of Miniaturisation Prize, which recognises outstanding achievements and significant contributions to the understanding and advancement of micro- and nano-scale science.
For more details about the Pioneers of Miniaturisation Prize and how to nominate a fellow scientist for next year’s award, please see here.
- From left: Harp Minhas (Editor Lab on a Chip), Ali Khademhosseini (2011 prize winner), Po Ki Yuen (Corning Inc)
This year’s Widmer Young Researcher Poster Prize went to Akwasi Apori from Professor Amy Herr’s lab at the University of California, Berkeley, for his poster entitled ‘Brain injury screening diagnostics for emergency medicine: quantitation of cerebrospinal fluid specific proteins in human nasal discharge’.
Dong Jin Shin (Johns Hopkins University, USA) received the Art in Science Award for the submission of the best scientific image titled ‘Yin and Yang in a Droplet’.
The fluorescence image is a snapshot of the mixing of two types of quantum dots inside a sessile droplet with the assistances of a micro magnetic gyromixer. The micro magnetic gyromixer spins on the curved droplet surface to balance itself through gyroscopic effect and to improve the mixing rate. Two small drips of quantum dot solution are added to a sessile droplet, the patterns of QD streamlines during mixing resemble the Yin and Yang pattern. (Image by Yi Zhang)
- Yin and Yang in a Droplet
Congratulation to all winners!
