Affinity 2007 Conference
NYU Kimmel Center, New York, NY
July 8 - 12, 2007
Pierce (ThermoFisher) - Long time sponsor and host to the Pierce Affinity Award
The 11th recipient of the Pierce Affinity Award is
Prof. Dr. Herbert P. Jennissen,
The Pierce Affinity Award Committee members for Affinity 2007 were: Meir Wilchek, Ed Bayer and Gidi Fleminger. Special thanks to Krishna Mallia and Peter Bell (Pierce/ThermoFisher) for making this award possible.
Affinity 2007 Life-time Achievement Award
The recipient of the Affinity 2007 Life-time Achievement Award is Pascal Bailon, Hoffmann - La Roche (ret.). This one-time award is in recognition of Pascal's "outstanding contributions to the field of Affinity technology/science and committed efforts to encourage student participation through the Roche Younger Investigators Award Program".
Hoffmann - La Roche - Long time sponsor and host to the Younger Investigator Award
Student participation is a great tradition of the ISMR Affinity Conferences. One aspect of this tradition is the Younger Investigator Award, which was sponsored by Hoffmann - La Roche and Mathias Uhlen. The recipients of the Affinity 2007 awards were:
Marc Herold (Guenter Tovar), University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany - Molecular Imprinted Polymers for Selective Protein Adsorption by Miniemulsion Polymerization
Katerina Kourentzi (Richard C. Willson), University of Houston, Houston, TX USA - Conformational Flexibility and Kinetic Complexity in Antigen-antibody Interactions
Melissa Collins (David Spivak) Lousiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA USA - Shape Selectivity versus Functional Group Pre-organization in Molecularly Imprinted Polymers
Xing Zhang (Richard C. Willson), University of Houston, Houston, TX USA - Engineered 5S Ribosomal RNAs displaying Anti-VEGF and Malachite Green Aptamers
Isabel T. de Sousa (M. Angela Taipa), Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa, Portugal - Synthetic Affinity Ligands to Bind Cutinase in an Active and Stable Conformation
Luisella Ruiu (M.Angela Taipa), Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, Portugal - Preliminary Stability Studies of Cutinase Immobilised onto Synthetic Affinity Ligands
A.S. Kamalanathan (M.A.Vijayalakshmi), Centre for Bioseparation Technology, VIT University, Vellore, India - Molecular Study of Autoantibody Rheumatoid Factor using Pseudo Bioaffinity Hollow Fiber Membrane Chromatography
Eleftheria Kioupritzi (Chris Lowe), University of Cambridge, Cambridge UK - Detection of Immunological Interactions via the Magnetic Acoustic Resonator Sensor
Kristian Becker (Leif Balow), Lund University Lund, Sweden - Development of HIC Media Useful for Isolation of Proteins Carrying Single Amino Acid Substitutions
Jason LeJeune (David Spivak), Lousiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA USA - Development of New OMNiMIPs (One Monomer Molecularly Imprinted Polymers)
Binh Vu (Richard Willson), University of Houston, Houston, TX USA - Effects of Gold Nanoparticles on PCR Amplicon Size
Steven M. Kemper (Richard C. Willson),
Jonathan M. Haigh (Christopher R. Lowe),
Ajish S. R. Potty (Richard Willson),
Roche Younger Investigator Award Committee
Ana Cecília Roque, Chair - Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Richard Willson - University of Houston, TX USA
Lars Hagel - GE Healthcare, Uppsala, Sweden
Irwin Chaiken, Drexel University, PA USA
George Ehrlich, Hoffmann - La Roche, NJ USA
Pascal Bailon (ret.), Hoffmann - La Roche, NJ USA
Mathias Uhlen - Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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