The Association for Laboratory Automisation (ALA) has announced the finalists for its USD10,000 Innovation Award at Labautomation2009, on 24-28 January 2009 in Palm Springs, CA.
The finalists are: Fred King, PhD, Santa Barbara, CA, US, Novartis Institute for Biomedical Research, for the development of a UHTS reporter gene assay platform for determination of the cellular mechanism of action of small molecules; Vincent Gau, PhD, Monterey Park, CA, Genefluidics, for his microfluidic cartridge system for multiplexed clinical analysis; Larry Gold, PhD, Boulder, CO, Somalogic, for proteomics, biomarker discovery, and novel diagnostics; John Oliver, PhD, Providence, RI, Nabsys, for his work on solid-state nanopores as a detector for genome scale sequencing by hybridisation; Darryl Bornhop, PhD, Nashville, TN, Vanderbilt University, for molecular interaction studies using backscattering interferometry; Leo Chan, PhD, Urbana, IL, University of Illinois, for a general method for screening protein-DNA interactions using label-free photonic crystal biosensor microplates; Mehmet Yanik, PhD, Cambridge, MA, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for high-throughput on-chip in vivo screening of whole animals at sub-cellular resolution; Hyongsok (Tom) Soh, PhD, Santa Barbara, CA, University of California - Santa Barbara, for high performance magnetic separation in microfluidic channels; Gavin Reid, PhD, East Lansing, MI, Michigan State University, for mass spectrometry strategies to identify potential lipid biomarkers of diabetic retinopathy; Klavs Jensen, PhD, Cambridge, MA, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for microfluidic synthesis of nano materials at high pressures and temperatures.
The Innovation Award panel of judges selected the finalists from the Labautomation2009 scientific programme.
