SLAS Names $10,000 Innovation Award Finalists for LabAutomation2011

Society For Laboratory Automation And Screening

The Association for Laboratory Automation, now officially the Laboratory Automation Section of the Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS), announced the top candidates for its $10,000 Innovation Award at LabAutomation2011, January 29-February 2, Palm Springs Convention Center, Palm Springs, CA, USA:

• Dino Di Carlo; Los Angeles, CA, USA; University of California, Los Angeles – Deformability Cytometry: High-throughput Label-free Measurement of Cancer Cell Malignancy and Stem Cell Differentiation State

• Scott Fulton; Madison, WI, USA; BioSystem Development, LLC – A New High Throughput Micro-Chromatography Platform for Quantitative Analytical Protein Sample Prep

• Guillermo Garcia-Cardena; Boston, MA, USA; Harvard Medical School – A Novel High-throughput Hemodynamic System for Biological and Drug Discovery

• Elliot Hui; Irvine, CA, USA; University of California, Irvine – Self-contained Microfluidic Systems Enabled by On-Chip Pneumatic Control Circuits

• Michelle Khine; Irvine, CA, USA; University of California, Irvine – Think Big… Then Shrink

• Thomas Laurell; Lund, Sweden; Lund University – Acoustophoretic Cell Handling in Microfluidic Systems – Towards Clinical Applications

• David Nolte; West Lafayette, IN, USA; Purdue University – Motility Contrast Imaging in Three-dimensional Tissue-based Drug Screening

• Kamlesh Patel; Livermore, CA, USA; Sandia National Laboratories – Preparation of Nucleic Acid Libraries for Ultra High Throughput Sequencing with a Digital Microfluidic Hub

• Paul van Midwoud; Groningen, Netherlands; University of Groningen – Microfluidics Enables Small-scale Tissue-based Metabolism Studies with Scarce Human Tissue

• Yama Abassi; San Diego, CA, USA; ACEA Biosciences – Real Time Beat to Beat Contraction Profiling Based Cardiotoxicity Screening Using the xCelligence RTCA Cardio System

The SLAS Innovation Award recognizes the top LabAutomation2011 podium presenters who put forth research that demonstrates outstanding innovation and contributes to the exploration of automation technologies in the laboratory. The Innovation Award panel of judges selected these top candidates from the LabAutomation2011 scientific program. The panel of judges will evaluate each of the top candidate’s podium presentation at LabAutomation2011 and then select the overall best presentation as the $10,000 Innovation Award winner.

" The SLAS Innovation Award recognizes the best podium presentation at the LabAutomation Conference and Exhibition,” says Jorg Kutter, Ph.D., SLAS Innovation Award Panel of Judges Chair. “This year’s high-quality submissions show that LabAutomation continues to be the premier forum for the laboratory automation community to introduce new innovations in research and technologies. ”

The $10,000 Innovation Award recipient will be announced Wednesday, February 2 during the LabAutomation2011 closing plenary session featuring John M. Butler, Ph.D. of the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

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