SLAS Innovation Award
Mission Statement
The SLAS Innovation Award is a $10,000 cash prize recognizing the work behind that one unique and special podium presentation at the SLAS Annual Conference that proves to be exceedingly innovative and contributes to the exploration of technologies in the laboratory, exceeds a benchmark or milestone in screening or the lead discovery process, or demonstrates an advanced and integrated use of mature technologies.
Finalists
Listed in alphabetical order, the nine 2017 SLAS Innovation Award finalists selected to compete for the $10,000 cash prize at SLAS2017 are:
Dean Ho, University of California – Los Angeles (USA)
Optimizing Clinical Combination Therapy Using a Phenotypic Personalized Medicine Technology Platform
Delyan P. Ivanov, University of Nottingham (United Kingdom)
Spheroid Microarrays to Rapidly Screen Spheroid Morphology and Protein Expression for Regenerative Medicine, Toxicology and Cancer Research
James E. Kirby, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School (USA)
Inkjet Printing Technology for Facilitated At Will Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (FAST) in Under 5 Hours: Addressing the Needs of a So-Called 'Post-Antibiotic Era'
Michael Klinger, Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation (Germany)
A High Throughput Technology for the Isolation of Single Cells Using a Nanoliter Dispenser
Tania Konry, Northeastern University (USA)
Dynamic Profiling of Anti-Tumor Immune Response at the Single-Cell Resolution by Microfluidic Cell Pairing
Christopher Millan, CellSpringAG (Switzerland)
Automated 3D Cell Culture Platform for Investigating Chemoresistance and Efficacy of Antibody-based Therapeutics
Elodie Sollier-Christen, Vortex Biosciences, Inc. (USA)
Vortex Biosciences Technology for Fast and Label-Free Isolation of Circulating Tumor Cells from Blood Samples
Tobias Wheeler, 10X Genomics (USA)
Transcriptional Profiling of Single Cells Using Droplet Microfluidics
Yu Shrike Zhang, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School (USA)
Rapid Multi-Material Extrusion Bioprinting
