NESAC/BIO has received an additional five years of funding from the NIH. NESAC/BIO was been funded by NIH since 1983. The new grant award now extends NESAC/BIO’s NIH funding through November 2019.
NESAC/BIO Director David Castner has received the 2014 Riviere Prize from the UK Surface Analysis Forum for his contributions to study, analysis and understanding of biological and biomaterial interfaces.
NESAC/BIO graduate student Blake Bluestein won the Graduate Student Poster Competition at the 2014 Pacific Northwest American Vacuum Society Chapter meeting for his research on using imaging ToF-SIMS to identify metabolic variation in human breast tumor tissues.
NESAC/BIO Director David Castner has been awarded a High End Instrumentation Grant from the National Institutes of Health to purchase a new imaging ToF-SIMS instrument, the J105 from Ionoptika. This new instrument will add significant new ToF-SIMS capabilities to NESAC/BIO, especially for 3-D imaging and molecular depth profiling of biological materials.
NESAC/BIO Investigator Buddy Ratner has been named as the 2014 UW School of Medicine Lifetime Inventor & Innovator for his pioneering work in biomaterials that has revolutionized knowledge in the field, defined new directions and made significant clinical impact.
Here is the link with more details:
http://depts.washington.edu/bioe/buddy-ratner-2014-school-of-medicine-lifetime-inventor-innovator/
NESAC/BIO Associate Director Lara Gamble has been selected as the 2014 winner of the Peter M.A. Sherwood Mid-Career Award from the AVS Applied Surface Science Division for her research on the development of surface analytical methods for characterizing biomedical surfaces and interfaces.
NESAC/BIO Investigator Buddy Ratner has been elected a Fellow of the Polymer Division of the American Chemical Society
Former NESAC/BIO post-doctoral fellow and research assistant professor Tobias Weidner won the 2013 Biomaterial Interfaces Young Investigator Award from the American Vacuum Society for his research on the structure of peptides and proteins at interfaces.
NESAC/BIO Director David Castner was named an Honorary Member of the American Vacuum Society in recognition of his scientific contributions and service to the society.
NESAC/BIO graduate students Elisa Harrison and Yung-Chen Wang have been awarded travel grants to attend the Nanobeams School in Luxembourg.
NESAC/BIO Director David Castner was elected as a member of the Washington State Academy of Sciences.
The Perspective Article "SFG Analysis of Surface Bound Proteins: A Route towards Structure Determination" by Tobias Weidner and David Castner was published in Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 15(30), 12516-12524, 2013. The journal selected Tobias Weidner's artwork from this article for the cover of that issue. For more information see:
http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2013/cp/c3cp50880c
The NESAC/BIO annual workshop on Surface Characterization of Biomaterials will be held July 29-31, 2013 on the University of Washington campus. To see the schedule and more information about the workshop please visit our annual workshop webpages.
NESAC/BIO Director David Castner was elected to the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering College of Fellows for outstanding contributions to the development and application of surface analysis methods for characterizing biomedical materials and devices.
NESAC/BIO Investigator Buddy Ratner was elected into the first class of Fellows of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine in recognition of his distinguished leadership within the tissue engineering and regenerative medicine fields.
NESAC/BIO graduate students Rami Foster and Blake Bluestein have been awarded travel grants to attend the Nanobeams School in Luxembourg
NESAC/BIO graduate student Blake Bluestein was awarded a three year Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation for his research studies on 3D Imaging of biological cells and tissues with ToF-SIMS.
NESAC/BIO Director David Castner has been awarded a Shared Instrumentation Grant from the National Institutes of Health to purchase a new Ar gas cluster ion source and an upgraded C60 cluster ion source for the existing NESAC/BIO ToF-SIMS instrument. These new ion sources will add significant new ToF-SIMS capabilities to NESAC/BIO, especially for 3-D imaging and molecular depth profiling of biological materials.
The European Society for Biomaterials has selected NESAC/BIO Investigator Buddy Ratner for the 2012 George Winter Award for his outstanding contributions to biomaterials.
