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2019 Bronze Medal Award
Petersen, Elliott, Toman
AWARD CITATION
The group is recognized for developing a strategy to improve bioassay reproducibility and demonstrating the strategy to assess nanomaterial toxicity. The toxicity assay design includes a novel test plate layout with in-process controls to monitor assay performance. The assay design was evaluated in an interlaboratory study with Europe, Switzerland, Thailand and South Korea and used to reveal and substantially reduce assay variability. The approach was adopted as an international standard in 2018 and has laid the foundation for the NIST measurement assurance program for cell-based assays.