NESAC/BIO graduate student Michael Robinson received a Distinguished Scholar Award from the Microbeam Analysis Society for his presentation on 3-D imaging of cells with ToF-SIMS at the 2010 Microscopy and Microanalysis conference.
NESAC/BIO graduate student Joe Baio received a Student Travel Achievement Recognition (STAR) award at the 2010 Society For Biomaterials conference for his presentation on characterizing the orientation of immobilized proteins.
NESAC/BIO graduate student Michael Robinson received a Student Travel Achievement Recognition (STAR) honorable mention at the 2010 Society For Biomaterials conference for his presentation on 3-D imaging of cells with ToF-SIMS.
NESAC/BIO graduate student Joe Baio won the best Biomaterial Interfaces Division student poster award at the 2009 AVS conference for his presentation on characterizing the orientation of immobilized proteins.
NESAC/BIO ran a workshop on the "Surface Characterization of Biomaterials" at the 2010 Society For Biomaterials Annual Symposium in Seattle on April 21st. For more information please visit the 2010 SFB Symposium website.
NESAC/BIO graduate student Shin Muramoto won a student award at the SIMS XVII conference for his presentation on ToF-SIMS depth profiling of trehalose films.
The NESAC/BIO annual workshop on Surface Characterization of Biomaterials was held from August 24-26, 2009 on the University of Washington campus. To see the schedule and more information about the workshop please visit our annual workshop webpages. The next workshop will be held in August, 2010.
NESAC/BIO graduate student Joe Baio won the best student poster award at the Surface Analysis 2009 conference for his presentation on characterizing the orientation of immobilized Protein G.
NESAC/BIO Investigator and Founding Director Buddy Ratner is the recipient of the 2009 Acta Biomaterialia Gold Medal Award. This award recognizes excellence in the research and the practice of biomaterials.
NESAC/BIO post-doctoral fellow Nicolas Vandencasteele was awarded a fellowship grant from the Belgium American Education Foundation and a travel grant from the Fulbright Commission. He will be joining NESAC/BIO in September, 2009. His research at NESAC/BIO will be on characterization of DNA surfaces for microarray applications.
NESAC/BIO graduate student Joe Baio won the Applied Surface Science Division best student presentation award at the 2008 AVS Symposium for his research on the characterization of amine terminated self-assembled monolayers.
NESAC/BIO Director Dave Castner has been elected President of the American Vacuum Society. He will serve a three year term as President Elect in 2009, President in 2010 and Immediate Past President in 2011.
NESAC/BIO graduate student Sirne Techance has been awarded an NSF IGERT Fellowship from the UW Center for Nanotechnology for her research on gold nanoparticles.
NESAC/BIO post-doctoral fellow Tobias Weidner was awarded a fellowship grant by the Deutsche Forschungs-gemeinschaft (German Science Foundation) for his research on studying peptide and protein structure at surfaces.
A symposium celebrating "25 Years of Biointerface Science" was held on the University of Washington campus from August 24-27, 2008.
The NESAC/BIO annual workshop on Surface Characterization of Biomaterials was held from August 20-22, 2008 on the University of Washington campus. To see the schedule and more information about the workshop please visit our annual workshop webpages. The next workshop will be held in August, 2009.
NESAC/BIO graduate student Sirnegeda Techane won the Applied Surface Science Division best student presentation award at the 2007 AVS Symposium for her research on the synthesis, functionalization and characterization of gold nanoparticles.
May 28th - June 1st, 2008. Abstracts are due September 30th, 2007.
NESAC/BIO Investigator Buddy Ratner was selected as the 2008 Pritzker Distinguished Lecturer by the Biomedical Engineering Society for his outstanding achievements and leadership in the science and practice of biomedical engineering.
NESAC/BIO Investigator Allan Hoffman received the 2007 Founders Award from the Controlled Release Society for both being a leading authority on biomaterials and carriers for drug delivery as well as the most prominent ambassador of the field in the world.
