NESAC/BIO graduate student Joe Baio won the best Biomaterial Interfaces Division student poster award at the 2009 AVS conference for his presentation on characterizing the orientation of immobilized proteins.

NESAC/BIO will be running a workshop on the "Surface Characterization of Biomaterials" at the 2010 Society For Biomaterials Annual Symposium in Seattle on April 21st. For more information please visit the 2010 SFB Symposium website.

NESAC/BIO graduate student Shin Muramoto won a student award at the SIMS XVII conference for his presentation on ToF-SIMS depth profiling of trehalose films.

The NESAC/BIO annual workshop on Surface Characterization of Biomaterials was held from August 24-26, 2009 on the University of Washington campus. To see the schedule and more information about the workshop please visit our annual workshop webpages. The next workshop will be held in August, 2010.

NESAC/BIO graduate student Joe Baio won the best student poster award at the Surface Analysis 2009 conference for his presentation on characterizing the orientation of immobilized Protein G.

NESAC/BIO Investigator and Founding Director Buddy Ratner is the recipient of the 2009 Acta Biomaterialia Gold Medal Award. This award recognizes excellence in the research and the practice of biomaterials.

NESAC/BIO post-doctoral fellow Nicolas Vandencasteele was awarded a fellowship grant from the Belgium American Education Foundation and a travel grant from the Fulbright Commission. He will be joining NESAC/BIO in September, 2009. His research at NESAC/BIO will be on characterization of DNA surfaces for microarray applications.

NESAC/BIO graduate student Joe Baio won the Applied Surface Science Division best student presentation award at the 2008 AVS Symposium for his research on the characterization of amine terminated self-assembled monolayers.

NESAC/BIO Director Dave Castner has been elected President of the American Vacuum Society. He will serve a three year term as President Elect in 2009, President in 2010 and Immediate Past President in 2011.

NESAC/BIO graduate student Sirne Techance has been awarded an NSF IGERT Fellowship from the UW Center for Nanotechnology for her research on gold nanoparticles.

NESAC/BIO post-doctoral fellow Tobias Weidner was awarded a fellowship grant by the Deutsche Forschungs-gemeinschaft (German Science Foundation) for his research on studying peptide and protein structure at surfaces.

A symposium celebrating "25 Years of Biointerface Science" was held on the University of Washington campus from August 24-27, 2008. Information about this joint NESAC/BIO and UWEB symposium is available here.

The NESAC/BIO annual workshop on Surface Characterization of Biomaterials was held from August 20-22, 2008 on the University of Washington campus. To see the schedule and more information about the workshop please visit our annual workshop webpages. The next workshop will be held in August, 2009.

NESAC/BIO graduate student Sirnegeda Techane won the Applied Surface Science Division best student presentation award at the 2007 AVS Symposium for her research on the synthesis, functionalization and characterization of gold nanoparticles.

May 28th - June 1st, 2008. See the flyer for details. Abstracts are due September 30th, 2007.

NESAC/BIO Investigator Buddy Ratner was selected as the 2008 Pritzker Distinguished Lecturer by the Biomedical Engineering Society for his outstanding achievements and leadership in the science and practice of biomedical engineering.

NESAC/BIO Investigator Allan Hoffman received the 2007 Founders Award from the Controlled Release Society for both being a leading authority on biomaterials and carriers for drug delivery as well as the most prominent ambassador of the field in the world.

The 2007 NESAC/BIO Annual Workshop was held on August 22-24, 2007. For more information about topics covered in the workshop please see our Annual Workshop section.

NESAC/BIO graduate student Fang Cheng won the best poster prize at the 2007 Eigenvector University meeting for his research using multivariate analysis to characterize the surface structure of NHS and NTA self-assembled monolayers.

NESAC/BIO Collaborator David Grainger of the University of Utah received the 2007 Clemson Award for Basic Research from the Society For Biomaterials for his pioneering research on surface modification and investigations of biological reactions at surfaces.

NESAC/BIO graduate student Julia Apte was awarded 2nd place in the Biomaterial Interfaces Division student poster competitive at the 2006 AVS conference for her research on characterization the adsorption of LK peptides on self-assembled monolayer surfaces.

The 2006 NESAC/BIO Annual Workshop was held on August 23-25, 2006. For more information about topics covered in the workshop please see our Annual Workshop section.

NESAC/BIO Graduate Student Chi-Ying Lee received a 2006 Graduate Research Award from the American Vacuum Society for her research using XPS, NEXAFS and SPR to characterize the structure and hybridization properties of DNA monolayers.

NESAC/BIO graduate student Chi-Ying Lee has won the best student poster prize at the Surface Analysis 06 conference.

NESAC/BIO graduate student Sirnegeda Techane has been awarded a 2006-2007 Intel Foundation PhD Fellowship for her research on surface functionalization and characterization of gold nanoparticules.

NESAC/BIO Investigator Buddy Ratner received the 2006 William Hall Award from the Society for Biomaterials for his significant contributions toward the society's goals.

NESAC/BIO Investigator Patrick Stayton received the 2006 Clemson Award for Basic Research from the Society for Biomaterials for his contributions to understanding the interactions of materials with tissue.

NESAC/BIO graduate student Chi-Ying Lee has won two student prizes for her research using XPS, NEXAFS and SPR to characterize the structure and hybridization properties of DNA monolayers. She won the best student poster prize at the 2005 Biointerface conference and the best Applied Surface Science student presentation at the 2005 AVS conference.

NESAC/BIO Director Dave Castner will be teaching a 1-day short course on "Surface Characterization of Biomaterials" at the AVS Conference on Nov 2, 2005.

NESAC/BIO Graduate Student Newton Samuel received a 2005 Graduate Research Award from the American Vacuum Society for his research characterizing the structure of adsorbed peptides.

The 2005 NESAC/BIO Annual Workshop will be held on August 22-24, 2005. For more information about topics covered in the workshop please see our Annual Workshop section.

NESAC/BIO graduate student Julia Apte has been awarded a three year NSF fellowship for her research investigating the structure of adsorbed peptides and their interactions with surfaces.

NESAC/BIO Director Dave Castner has been elected to a three year term (2005-2007) on the Board of Directors of the American Vacuum Society.

The paper "Surface Characterization of the Extracellular Matrix Remaining after Cell Detachment from a Thermoresponsive Polymer," H.E. Canavan, X. Cheng, D.J. Graham, B.D. Ratner and D.G. Castner, Langmuir, 21, 1949-1955, 2005. Please see http://pubs.acs.org/journals/langd5/index.html for further details.

NESAC/BIO Investigator Allan Hoffman has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering for his pioneering work on the medical uses of polymeric materials.

NESAC/BIO Director Dave Castner has been named as the Director of the Center for Nanotechnology at the University of Washington.

NESAC/BIO Director Dave Castner has been selected as a Fellow, Biomaterials Science and Engineering by the International Union of Societies, Biomaterials Science & Engineering.