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Dr. Tuan Vo-Dinh is a Corporate Fellow at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA; Group Leader of the Advanced Biomedical Science and Technology Group; and Director of The Center for Advanced Biomedical Photonics. His research has focused on the development of advanced technologies for the protection of the environment and the improvement of human health. His research activities involve biophotonics, nanophotonics, molecular imaging, medical diagnostics, biosensors, nanosensors, and biochips.
Dr. Vo-Dinh has received seven R&D 100 Awards for Most Technologically Significant Advance in Research and Development for his pioneering research and inventions of innovative technologies. He received the Gold Medal Award, Society for Applied Spectroscopy (1998); the Languedoc-Roussillon Award (France) (1989); the Scientist of the Year Award, ORNL (1992); the Thomas Jefferson Award, Martin Marietta Corporation (1992); two Awards for Excellence in Technology Transfer, Federal Laboratory Consortium (1986, 1995); the Inventor of the Year Award, Tennessee Inventors Association (1996); and the Lockheed Martin Technology Commercialization Award (1998), the Distinguished Inventors Award, UT-Battelle (2003), and the Distinguished Scientist of the Year Award, ORNL (2003). In 1997, Dr. Vo-Dinh was presented the Exceptional Services BER-50 Award for distinguished contribution in biological and environmental research from US Department of Energy. Dr. Vo-Dinh has published over 300 peer-reviewed scientific papers, and is author or editor of seven books on spectroscopy and nanotechnology. He holds over 29 patients, 6 of which have been licensed to environmental and biotech companies for commercial development.
Dr. Thomas Laurell holds a position as professor in Medical and Chemical Microsensors at the Department of Electrical Measurements, Lund University, Lund, Sweden. He is the leader of the Lab-On-A-Chip and nanobiotechnology group. His research focuses on the development of new miniaturized strategies for chemical and biomedical analysis and monitoring, including microfluidics and techniques for nano-/picoliter volume processing, on-off-chip interfacing, and chip-based cell sorting and separation. Current focus is given to nanoproteomics, ultrasonic microchip separation, piezomicrodispensing and protein microarrays. In 2003 his research was ranked in the top of Swedish biotechnology in the international 6 year evaluation organized by the Swedish Research Council.
Dr. Laurell has also received a series of national awards for innovative research. In 1996 and in 2003 he received The Foundation SKAPA Award in Memory of Alfred Nobel. In 2003 he won the national final of the Innovation Cup competition. In 2003 and 2004 he received The Öhrlings Price Water House Award.
Dr. Laurell has published over 100 papers, has field 20 patent applications of which 11 have been licensed or transferred to biotech or med-tech industry. Dr. Laurell has co-founded several start-up companies of which Erysave AB was awarded the best start-up company of the year 2003 by Connect and The Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences.
Dr. Eiichi Tamiya holds a position as professor at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (JAIST), Ishikawa, Japan. He received his PhD degree from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Biotechnology Laboratory, in 1985. He subsequently held positions as Research Associate at the Tokyo Institute of Technology from 1985 to 1987; Lecturer at the Tokyo Institute of Technology from 1987 to 1988; Associate Professor at the University of Tokyo, RCAST, from 1988 to 1993.
Dr. Tamiya’s current topics of interest include biochips and biosensors; nanotechnology-based bioscience and bioengineering; screening of new bacteria, enzymes, and other bioactive molecules; design and creation of molecular recognition materials; and environmental biotechnology.
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Tuan Vo-Dinh Editor-in-Chief., Thomas Laurell Associate Editor for Europe. & Eiichi Tamiya Associate Editor for Asia and Pacific Region. Introduction to NanoBiotechnology . Nanobiotechnol 1, 1–2 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1385/NBT:1:1:001
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