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Lab on a Chip and Dolomite are proud to sponsor the Pioneers of Miniaturization Lectureship, to honour and support the up and coming, next generation of scientists who have significantly contributed to the understanding or development of miniaturised systems.

This year’s Lectureship will be presented at µTAS 2022 with the recipient receiving a prize of US$3,000.

The Lectureship consists of the following elements:

• A prize of US$3,000. No other financial contribution will be offered
• A certificate recognising the winner of the lectureship
• The awardee is required to give a short lecture at the µTAS 2022 event

Eligibility Criteria

To be eligible for the lectureship, candidates must:

• Have completed their PhD
• Be actively pursuing an independent research career on miniaturised systems.
• Be at an early-mid career stage of their independent career (typically this will be within 15 years of completing their PhD, but appropriate consideration will be given to those who have taken a career break or followed a different study path).

Nomination process

To be considered for the 2022 lectureship, the following must be sent to the Editorial Office

• A recommendation letter, including the name, contact details and website URL of the nominee
• A one-page CV for the nominee, including their date of birth, summary of education and career, a list of up to five of their top independent publications, total numbers of publications
• A one-page statement of achievement with a lay summary, written by the nominee describing their best accomplishments
• A supporting letter of recommendation from an independent referee. This could be for example the nominee’s post doc or PhD supervisor. A letter of recommendation with the candidate’s accomplishments and why the lectureship is deserved.

Selection criteria and judging process

• Nominations must be made via email to loc-rsc@rsc.org supplying the requested documents listed above.
• The decision on the winner of the lectureship will be made by a panel of judges comprising a representative from Dolomite and members from the Lab on a Chip Editorial Board, coordinated by the Executive Editor of Lab on a Chip.
• The award is for outstanding contributions to the understanding or development of miniaturised systems. This will be judged mainly through their top 1-3 papers and/or an invention documented by patents/or a commercial product. Awards and honorary memberships may also be considered.

Nomination Deadline: 31 July 2022

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Lab on a Chip and Dolomite are delighted to announce the winner of the 2020 Pioneers of Miniaturization Lectureship, Professor Wilbur A. Lam, MD, PhD.

This Lectureship honours and supports the up and coming, next generation of scientists who have significantly contributed to the understanding or development of miniaturised systems.

Professor Lam is a physician-scientist-engineer and clinical pediatric hematologist/oncologist. He is the W. Paul Bowers Research Chair of Pediatrics and Biomedical Engineering at Emory University and Georgia Tech and an attending physician at the Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center of the Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta.

His laboratory focuses on developing microsystems to study and diagnose hematologic diseases including sickle cell disease, thrombotic/bleeding disorders, and leukemia. He is also principal investigator of the Atlanta Center for Microsystems Engineered Point-of-Care Technology (ACME POCT), an integral part of the NIH’s Point-of-Care Technologies Research Network (POCTRN) and RADx COVID-19 initiative.

Professor Lam received his MD from Baylor College of Medicine, going on to earn his PhD in Bioengineering from the University of California, Berkley. He completed his Fellowship in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology and Residency in Pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco.

Our Pioneers of Miniaturization Lectureship Winner is invited to speak at MicroTAS, and thus Wilbur will be presenting his talk at the online MicroTAS 2020 meeting, 4-9^th October 2020.

We our warmest congratulations to Wilbur on his achievement.

Read some of Wilbur Lam’s recent Lab on a Chip papers below:

Interdigitated microelectronic bandage augments hemostasis and clot formation at low applied voltage in vitro and in vivo
Elaissa T. Hardy, Yannan J. Wang, Sanathan Iyer, Robert G. Mannino, Yumiko Sakurai, Thomas H. Barker, Taiyun Chi, Yeojoon Youn, Hua Wang, Ashley C. Brown and Wilbur A. Lam
Lab Chip, 2018, 18, 2985-2993

Probing blood cell mechanics of hematologic processes at the single micron level
Jordan C. Ciciliano, Reza Abbaspour, Julia Woodall, Caroline Wu, Muhannad S. Bakir and Wilbur A. Lam
Lab Chip, 2017, 17, 3804-3816

3D microvascular model recapitulates the diffuse large B-cell lymphoma tumor microenvironment in vitro
Robert G. Mannino, Adriana N. Santiago-Miranda, Pallab Pradhan, Yongzhi Qiu, Joscelyn C. Mejias, Sattva S. Neelapu, Krishnendu Roy and Wilbur A. Lam
Lab Chip, 2017, 17, 407-414

*Free to read until 26^th October 2020 with an RSC publishing account.

We are delighted to announce that Sunghoon Kwon is 2018 winner of the “Pioneers of Miniaturization” Lectureship!

The 13th “Pioneers of Miniaturization” Lectureship, sponsored by Dolomite and Lab on a Chip , is for early to mid-career scientists who have made extraordinary or outstanding contributions to the understanding or development of miniaturised systems.

This “Pioneers of Miniaturization” Lectureship will be presented to Sunghoon at the µTAS 2018 Conference in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, being held on 11-15 November, 2018. Sunghoon will receive a certificate, a monetary award and will give a short lecture during the conference.

Many congratulations to Professor Sunghoon Kwon on this achievement from the Lab on a Chip Team!

About the Winner

©Youngkwang Kang

Sunghoon Kwon earned his PhD in Bioengineering from University California at Berkeley, California, USA  in 2004. After a postdoctoral fellowship at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, he was appointed to his current role as a Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering at Seoul National University.

In recognition of his outstanding achievements, Dr. Kwon has received numerous awards, including Young Scientist Award from The Korean Academy of Science and Technology (2011), Young Scientist Award from the Korean President (2012), “IT Young Engineer Award” from IEEE (2016), Young Engineer Award from National Academy of Engineering of Korea (2018). He has authored more than 70 peer-reviewed publications and has served as Advisory Board member of Lab on a Chip since 2017. Another major contribution by Professor Kwon is the commercialization of his microfluidic technologies. A rapid antibiotic susceptibility testing method published in Lab on a Chip (2013) and Science Translational Medicine (2014) and a high-throughput DNA synthesis method (Nature Communications 2015) has been commercialized by two companies, which were spun off Professor Kwon’s laboratory.

His research interests are the interface of biomedical engineering, bioMEMS, optofluidics, nanofabrication, and nanoengineering, specifically focusing on innovative diagnostic and synthetic biology platforms for personalized medicine.

Learn about the Kwon group online

Lab on a Chip and Dolomite are proud to sponsor the thirteenth Pioneers of Miniaturization Lectureship, to honour and support the up and coming, next generation of scientists who have significantly contributed to the understanding or development of miniaturised systems. This year’s Lectureship will be presented at the µTAS 2018 Conference in Kaohsiung, Taiwan with the recipient receiving a prize of US$2,000.

Who should you nominate?

Early to mid-career scientists (maximum 15 years post completion of PhD).

Scientists who have demonstrated outstanding contributions to the understanding or development of miniaturised systems.

How do you nominate?

Submit your nominations to Lab on a Chip Editor Sam Keltie at LOC-RSC@rsc.org

Nominations should include:

• Full contact and affiliation details of the person making the nomination.
• A letter of nomination with the candidate’s accomplishments and why the lectureship is deserved. (The nominee must be aware that he/she has been nominated for this lectureship.)
• A list of the candidate’s relevant publications or recent work (all work should be original).
• Candidate’s scientific CV stating PhD completion date; address; and full contact details.

Nomination Deadline: 30 June 2018

Who has won the Pioneers of Miniaturization Lectureship in the past?

• 2017: Professor Aaron Wheeler, University of Toronto, Canada
• 2016: Professor Daniel Irimia, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA
• 2015: Professor Dino Di Carlo, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
• 2014: Professor Sangeeta N. Bhatia, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
• 2013: Professor Shuichi Takayama, University of Michigan, USA
• 2012: Professor Andrew deMello, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
• 2011: Professor Ali Khademhosseini, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
• 2010: Professor Stephen Quake, Stanford University, USA
• 2009: Professor Abe Lee, University of California, Irvine, USA
• 2008: Dr Patrick Doyle, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
• 2007: Dr Manabu Tokeshi, Nagoya University, Japan
• 2006: Dr David Beebe, University of Wisconsin, USA

Terms and Conditions

The Lectureship consists of the following elements:

• A prize of US$2,000. No other financial contribution will be offered
• A certificate recognising the winner of the lectureship
• The awardee is required to give a short lecture at the 2018 µTAS Conference

The award is for early to mid-career scientists (maximum 15 years post completion of PhD). Appropriate consideration will be given to those who have taken a career break or followed a different study path.

The award is for outstanding contributions to the understanding or development of miniaturised systems. This will be judged mainly through their top 1-3 papers and/or an invention documented by patents/or a commercial product. Awards and honorary memberships may also be considered.

The winner will be expected to submit at least two significant publications to Lab on a Chip in the 12 months after the lectureship is awarded.

Nominations from students and self-nominations are not permissible.

The decision on the winner of the lectureship will be made by a panel of judges coordinated by the Editor, and this decision will be final.

Sponsors

Dolomite

Dolomite, part of the Blacktrace group, is the world leader in the design and manufacture of microfluidic products. Our systems are flexible and modular, allowing users to execute a wide range of applications in biology, chemistry, drug discovery, food, cosmetics, and academia. With expertise on hand, we can talk to you about your needs to ensure you find the right system for you and your research.

Lab on a Chip

Lab on a Chip provides a unique forum for the publication of significant and original work related to miniaturisation, at the micro- and nano-scale, of interest to a multidisciplinary readership. The journal seeks to publish work at the interface between physical technological advancements and high impact applications that are of direct interest to a broad audience.

We are delighted to announce that Aaron Wheeler is 2017 winner of the “Pioneers of Miniaturization” Lectureship!

The 12th “Pioneers of Miniaturization” Lectureship, sponsored by Dolomite and Lab on a Chip , is for early to mid-career scientists who have made extraordinary or outstanding contributions to the understanding or development of miniaturised systems.

This “Pioneers of Miniaturization” Lectureship will be presented to Aaron at the µTAS 2017 Conference in Georgia, USA on 22-26 October 2017. Aaron will receive a certificate, a monetary award and will give a short lecture during the conference.

Many congratulations to Professor Aaron Wheeler on this achievement from the Lab on a Chip!

About the Winner Aaron Wheeler earned his PhD in Chemistry at Stanford University in 2003. After a postdoctoral fellowship at UCLA, he joined the faculty at the University of Toronto in 2005, with primary appointment in the Department of Chemistry and cross-appointments in the Institute for Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering and the Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research. Professor Wheeler has been recognized with a number of honours including the E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship from the Canadian National Sciences and Engineering Research Council, the Arthur F. Findeis Award from the American Chemical Society, and the Joseph Black Award from the Royal Society of Chemistry. He has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed publications and has served as Associate Editor of Lab on a Chip since 2013. Wheeler’s research group develops microfluidic tools to solve problems in chemistry, biology, and medicine. A key technology used by the group is digital microfluidics  (DMF), a technique in which fluidic droplets are manipulated on the surface of an array of electrodes coated with a hydrophobic insulator. In recent years DMF has matured into a highly enabling liquid-handling technology which has a strong foothold in several fields ranging from chemical synthesis to clinical sample analysis to tissue engineering. Learn about the Wheeler group online http://microfluidics.utoronto.ca/ or on twitter at @Wheeler_Lab.