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Greta Babakhanova Wins Brown Prize

The Glenn H. Brown Prize awards doctoral students whose PhD theses demonstrate an outstanding contribution to the science of liquid crystals. The aim of ILCS is to unite scientists, engineers and students working in the broad field of fundamental and...

Elijah Petersen Receives ACS Chemical Research in Toxicology Award

This award honors the contributions of an early-career individual who has had a major impact on research in chemical toxicology or a related field. Dr. Petersen will submit a Perspective or Review article for publication in Chemical Research in...

Allocca and Lin-Gibson Honored with Gears of Government Award

Combined technical, organizational, and standards expertise from more than 125 U.S. biotechnology stakeholders to develop unified biotechnology standards. This team’s leadership and strategic thinking informed the development of international...

Elizabeth Strychalski Honored as Outstanding Young Scientist

Elizabeth was nominated for her outstanding scientific talent, technical vision and leadership in the field of engineering biology. She has published important contributions to fields spanning nanotechnology, synthetic biology, statistical mechanics...

2019 - Gold Medal Award---Clare M. Allocca, Sheng Lin-Gibson

For extraordinary national and international leadership in promoting biotechnology innovation, manufacturing and trade through standards development.

2019 - Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers---Elijah Petersen

For pioneering toxicity measurement methods for nanomaterials to help industry and the public sector assess the environmental, health and safety impacts of products such as carbon nanotubes.

2019 - Safety Award---Ross Haynes

For outstanding contributions to safety and facilities management at the division and OU level within MML.

2019 - Bronze Medal Award---Michael Halter

For development and deployment of a method to benchmark performance of fluorescence microscopes that is accessible to the general user community.

2019 - Bronze Medal Award---John Elliott, Elijah Petersen, Blaza Toman

For development and implementation of a measurement assurance strategy to improve comparability and reliability of cell-based assays.

Elijah Petersen Honored with PECASE

For pioneering measurement methods of nanomaterials toxicity that now underpin industry and public sector assessments of the environmental, health, and safety impacts of technologically important products, such as carbon nanotubes.

Samantha Maragh Honored by Maryland Science Center

Dr. Maragh recognized the need for, established and is now leading the National Institute of Standards and Technology Genome Editing Consortium.

2017 - Bronze Medal Award---Nancy J. Lin

For deployment of a quantitative yeast material that enables safe on-site training for first responders to increase confidence in biothreat detection.

DeRose, Schiel, Mouchahoir, Turner, Telikepalli

2017 - Gold Medal Award---Paul C. DeRose, Catherine A. Mouchahoir, John E. Schiel, Srivalli Telikepalli, Abigail H. Turner

For developing NISTmAb, industry's first monoclonal antibody reference material and benchmarking tool for manufacturing life-saving protein drugs.

2017 - Bronze Medal Award---Sheng Lin-Gibson, Sumona Sarkar, Steven Lund

For development of an experimental and statistical framework for comparing cell-counting measurements fundamental to biotechnology.

Zook, Samarov, Harris, McDaniel, Salit, Catoe

2017 - Judson C. French Award---David Catoe, Lindsay Harris, Jennifer McDaniel, Marc Salit, Justin Zook, Daniel Samarov

For development of a suite of whole-genome human reference materials designed to advance clinical applications of genome sequencing.

2017 - Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers---Justin Zook

For his exemplary work in basic and applied science, and in standards development needed for our nation to implement the powerful tool of whole genome sequencing, and for his humanitarian efforts to support healthcare in developing countries.

Marcus Cicerone Receives 2016 Arthur S. Flemming Award

Dr. Marcus Cicerone was recently recognized for outstanding federal service through seminal contributions to the field of label-free chemical imaging, by introducing broadband coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (BCARS) microscopy, and to the field...

2016 - Judson C. French Award---Hua-jun He, Jamie Almeida, Kenneth Cole, Steven Choquette, Steven Lund

For development of the first-ever cancer-gene copy-number Standard Reference Material for diagnosing cancers: NIST SRM 2373.

2014 - Bronze Medal Award---Martin Chiang, Nancy Lin, Sheng Lin-Gibson

For development of a clinically relevant measurement and standardization program for critical evaluation of photo-polymerized dental restoratives.

Samuel Schaffter awarded the Robert Dirks Molecular Programming Prize

The 2021 Robert Dirks Molecular Programming Prize was awarded to Dr. Samuel Schaffter, NRC postdoc of the Cellular Engineering Group in the Biosystems and Biomaterials Division (644.05) for his work on modular in vitro regulatory networks and...

Anne Plant Elected AAAS Fellow

MML Division Chief Dr. Anne Plant has been elected to the rank of fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) by the AAAS Council. Plant was recognized for "distinguished contributions to the field of quantitative biology...

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