NESAC/BIO Research Coordinator Dan Graham has been named AVS Fellow for his development of ToF-SIMS methods to investigate important problems in biology and medicine, especially the application of multivariate analysis methods for the interpretation of complex ToF-SIMS datasets.
NESAC/BIO Research Coordinator Dan Graham has been selected as the 2021 winner of the Peter M.A. Sherwood Mid-Career Award from the AVS Applied Surface Science Division for innovation and leadership in the application of ToF-SIMS to organic and biological materials and for the development of practical multivariate analysis tools which are widely used in the Applied Surface Science community.
Tina Angerer won a Biomaterials Science Poster Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry at the UW Biomaterials Day on December 10, 2019.
National ESCA and Surface Analysis Center for Biomedical Problems (NESAC/Bio) has the honor of being awarded the 2020 Technology, Innovation and Development Award from the Society for Biomaterials. The Technology Innovation and Development Award formally recognizes successful application of basic and Applied Biomaterials research in the development of a novel medical product or technology that significantly benefits the health and well-being of medical and surgical patients.
NESAC/BIO Director Dave Castner has been selected as the winner of the 2018 Medard W. Welch Award from the American Vacuum Society for "Leading Advances in Rigorous and State-of-the-Art Surface Analysis Methods Applied to Organic and Biological Samples.”
NESAC/BIO Director Dave Castner has been selected as the winner of the 2017 ECASIA Award. This award is given out by the European Conference on Applications of Surface and Interface Analysis for outstanding scientific achievements in the field of Surface and Interface Analysis.
NESAC/BIO Director Dave Castner has been recognized for his contributions to the Biointerphases journal.
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NESAC/BIO graduate student Yung-Chen Wang has been selected to receive 6 months funding from the NSF and JSPS to work in the laboratory of Professor Takeshi Kawai at the Tokyo University of Science. Yung-Chen will be researching new methods for nanoparticle synthesis and processing during his stay in Japan.
NESAC/BIO Founding Director Buddy Ratner was interviewed during the World Biomaterials Congress in Montreal. He discussed the growth, history and new directions in the biomaterials research. The interview is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vh02PSkkj3E.
NESAC/BIO ran a workshop entitled “New Directions in Biomedical Surface Analysis” at the World Biomaterials Congress in Montreal. Buddy Ratner, Lara Gamble and Dave Castner gave presentations at this workshop.
Professor Emeritus Allan Hoffman, a NESAC/BIO Investigator from 1983-2009, has received a special Controlled Release Society (CRS) award from the CSR Foundation. The Allan Hoffman CRS Foundation Award will provide travel funds for students to attend the annual CRS meetings. Allan will receive the 2017 Acta Biomaterialia Gold Medal Award for his excellent in biomaterials research and development.
NESAC/BIO graduate student Yung-Chen Wang won a Microscopy & Microanalysis Student Award for his research on charaterization of Protein G functionalized gold nanoparticles.
NESAC/BIO Investigator Buddy Ratner has received a Most Cited Article award from the Annals of Bioengineering for his article entitled “Porous Implants Modulate Healing and Induce Shifts in Local Macrophage Polarization in the Foreign Body Reaction.”
NESAC/BIO graduate student Patrik Johansson was awarded a Tomas A. Hirschfeld award from the SciX 2015 Conference for his research on “Detailed Analysis of Protein Fibers by Vibrational Sum-Frequency Scattering and Second-Harmonic Generation Imaging”.
NESAC/BIO Associate Director Lara Gamble has been named AVS Fellow for her continued development of novel biomedical surface analysis tools and methodology for advancing our understanding of diagnostic devices and biological materials.
The NESAC/BIO annual workshop on Surface Characterization of Biomaterials will be held from August 6-8, 2015 on the University of Washington campus. For more information about the workshop and to register please visit our annual workshop webpages.
NESAC/BIO graduate student Elisa Harrison has received a graduate student award to attend the 2015 Conference on Foundations of Molecular Modeling and Simulation and present her research on protein-surface interactions.
The recent publication “Full Membrane Spanning SAMs As Model Systems for UHV-Based Studies of Cell-Penetrating Peptides” by Franz, Graham, Schmüser, Baio, Castner, Bonn and Weidner has be selected as a Biointerphases Editor’s Pick.
NESAC/BIO Investigator Buddy Ratner has been selected to give the Langmuir Lecture at the 2015 Fall Meeting of the American Chemical Society.
On March 23, 2015 NESAC/BIO Director Dave Castner and NESAC/BIO Founding Director Buddy Ratner gave lectures at the “Biomaterials and Biointerfaces Scientific Day” in Paris (http://www.vide.org/bioday/).
