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The Analytical Chemistry Award Winners
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id you know that Analytical Chemistry cosponsors two awards? Many of you likely know about the Analytical Chemistry Young Innovator Award, jointly sponsored between Analytical Chemistry and the Chemical and Biological Microsystems Society. In 2018, we will celebrate the tenth anniversary of this award. This year we introduced our newest award, the Advances in Measurement Science Lectureships, representing a partnership between three ACS measurement science journals (Analytical Chemistry, the Journal of Proteome Research, and ACS Sensors) and the Analytical Division of the ACS, groups interested in highlighting the best of measurement science and in advancing analytical chemistry. The goal of the Analytical Chemistry Young Innovator Award is to recognize the contributions of individuals who have made exceptional technical advancements in the field of micro- or nanofluidics early in their career. This year’s winner is Prof. Tony Jun Huang, Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at Duke University. His research interests are in the fields of acoustofluidics, optofluidics, and micro/nano systems for biomedical diagnostics and therapeutics. The Analytical Chemistry 2017 Young Innovator Award will be presented to Prof. Huang at μTAS (MicroTAS) 2017 in Savannah, Georgia, October 25, 2017. He joins a long list of impressive prior winners. The Advances in Measurement Science Lectureships were created to recognize important measurement science progress from all of the subfields of analytical chemistry. Award winners are selected based on an award packet that includes an abstract and a resume emphasizing their research accomplishments over the past five years, with one winner selected from each of three major geographic regions: the Americas, Europe/Middle East/ Africa, and Asia/Pacific. We are happy to announce the inaugural award winners are Prof. Neil Kelleher from Northwestern University, USA; Prof. Francesco Ricci from the University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy; and Prof. Kourosh Kalantar-zadeh from RMIT, Australia. Their expertise and recent research span the fields of biochemical sensors, electrochemical sensors, microsystems, nanotechnology, top down proteomics, and more. This year the awardees will receive a plaque, honorarium, and travel support to attend Pittcon 2018 in Orlando, Florida, and each are able to invite a companion lecturer to speak. The winners and their colleagues will present their talks in a dedicated Pittcon symposium. The accomplishments of the inaugural lectureship winners demonstrate that the new award is off to a great start. While the winners for both awards have been selected for this year, there will be a call for both awards in Spring of 2018. Thus, consider nominating a deserving colleague for one of these recognitions next year.
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Jonathan V. Sweedler: 0000-0003-3107-9922 Notes
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Jonathan V. Sweedler © XXXX American Chemical Society
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DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.7b03730 Anal. Chem. XXXX, XXX, XXX−XXX
