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| Bomem-Michelson Award |
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WINNER: Professor Richard P. Van Duyne
Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern University
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Richard P. Van Duyne is the Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern University. He is widely known for the 1977 discovery of surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS). The quest to understand SERS at a fundamental level resulted in Professor Van Duyne’s invention of nanosphere lithography (NSL) to fabricate structurally and optically well-defined SERS-active surfaces. NSL led in turn to the development of ultrasensitive nanosensors based on localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) spectroscopy and the field of molecular plasmonics. Most recently Van Duyne developed the isotopologue proof of single molecule SERS that has put this field on a more sound scientific footing. His research interests include all forms of surface-enhanced spectroscopy, nanofabrication, molecular plasmonics, tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (TERS), ultrahigh vacuum TERS, Raman spectroscopy of mass-selected clusters, ultrahigh vacuum surface science, structure and function of biomolecules on surfaces, surface-enhanced spectroscopic methods for chemical and biological sensing, and application of SERS to problems in art conservation science.
Professor Van Duyne has been recognized for his accomplishments with the Ellis R. Lippincott Award, Optical Society of America (2008), Professeur invite classe exceptionnelle – University Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, (2008), the National Science Foundation Creativity Extension Award (2007), L’Oreal Art and Science of Color Prize (2006), American Chemical Society Nobel Laureate Signature Award for Graduate Education (2005), election to American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2004), the American Physical Society Earle K. Plyler Prize for Molecular Spectroscopy, the Surfaces in Biomaterials Foundation Excellence in Surface Science Award (1996), the Pittsburgh Spectroscopy Award (1991), the Phi Lambda Upsilon Fresenius Award (1981), the Coblentz Society Memorial Prize in Molecular Spectroscopy (1980), and the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship (1974). He is also a fellow of both the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Van Duyne received his B.S. degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1967) and a PhD. degree in analytical chemistry from the University of North Carolina (1971).
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| Young Investigator Award |
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WINNER: Christy L. Haynes
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota
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Christy L. Haynes is an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Minnesota. She completed doctoral work at Northwestern University under the direction of Professor Richard P. Van Duyne. While at Northwestern, she gained expertise in the areas of nanoscale materials chemistry and surface laser spectroscopy. During her postdoctoral work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, she pursued new research areas under the direction of Professor R. Mark Wightman. Her NIH-funded postdoctoral research exploited carbon-fiber microelectrochemistry to study exocytosis from individual biological cells.
Christy’s research goals at the University of Minnesota bridge the experience she gained during doctoral and postdoctoral research. During her tenure at the University of Minnesota, she has been named a Kinship Foundation Searle Scholar, McKnight Land-Grant Assistant Professor, and a Camille Dreyfus Teacher Scholar and received financial support for her research from 3M, the American Chemical Society, the National Science Foundation, and the NIH New Innovator Program. Christy currently has a postdoctoral researcher, 9 graduate students, and 4 undergraduate students working in her laboratory.
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| Charles N. Reilley Award |
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WINNER: Richard M. Crooks
Robert A. Welch Chair in Materials Chemistry, The University of Texas at Austin
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Richard M. Crooks, Crooks received his BS degree from The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1981 working under the direction of Dr. Larry R. Faulkner. He graduated with a Ph.D. from The University of Texas at Austin in 1987 working under the direction of Dr. Allen J. Bard specializing in electrochemistry. After completing postdoctoral work at MIT (1987-1989), Crooks started his teaching career as an Assistant Professor at the University of New Mexico from 1989 – 1993. He later transferred to Texas A&M becoming an Associate Professor from 1993-1997 with a promotion to full Professor from 1997-2005. During his time at A&M, Crooks was the founding director of the Center for Integrated Microchemical Systems. Currently, Crooks is the Robert A. Welch Chair in Materials Chemistry and Chairman of the UT Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. . He is the recipient of the ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry Award in Electrochemistry (2008) and the Carl Wagner Memorial Award of the Electrochemical Society (2003).
The Crooks group has broad interests in electrochemistry, biological and chemical microsensors, and nanomaterials. At present, projects are focused in two areas: (1) synthesis, characterization, and testing of highly selective nanocomposite catalysts, (2) design and fabrication of a new family of sensors based on micro- and nanofluidic devices.
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| Chromatography Forum of the Delaware Valley Dal Nogare Award |
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WINNER: Lane C. Sander
Leader of the Organic Chemical Metrology Group within the Analytical Chemistry Division, NIST
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Lane C. Sander received his Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry at the University of Washington in 1982, under the direction of Prof. Larry Field. He was awarded a National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST; formerly the National Bureau of Standards) in 1982 to investigate the synthesis, characterization, and application of novel chromatographic sorbents. Initial efforts in collaboration with Dr. Stephen Wise led to the development of polymeric stationary phases, which characteristically exhibit enhanced discrimination of isomers based on molecular shape. These early chromatographic studies were expanded to include investigations of stationary phase morphology through spectroscopic approaches, and correlations with computational simulations of modified surfaces. Based on these findings, Dr. Sander developed the first column tailored for the analysis of carotenoid isomers, utilizing a polymeric C30 stationary phase. The goal of these research efforts is the improvement of chemical metrology in environmental, clinical, and food science disciplines.
Dr. Sander is a member of the American Chemical Society and the Chemical Society of Washington, and is a former President, Vice President and Program Chairman of the Washington Chromatograph Discussion Group. He is also a former lecturer at Georgetown University, and is an editorial advisory board member of the Journal of Chromatography. Dr. Sander has authored over 150 publications in the peer reviewed literature and other venues (book chapters, review articles, and NIST publications), and has two patents pending. He was awarded the Department of Commerce Bronze Medal for his research on fundamental studies in chromatography. He is currently Leader of the Organic Chemical Metrology Group within the Analytical Chemistry Division, NIST.
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| Pittsburgh Analytical Chemistry Award (SACP) |
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WINNER: Lloyd M. Smith
W.L.Hubbell Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin
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Lloyd M. Smith is the W. L. Hubbell Professor of Chemistry and Director of the Genome Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he has been since 1988. He received an A.B. degree in Biochemistry from the University of California at Berkeley (1977) and a Ph.D. in Biophysics from Stanford University (1981). In 1982 he moved to the California Institute of Technology, where he developed the first fluorescence-based automated DNA sequencing instrument.
He has been named one of Science Digest's Top 100 Innovators and has received the Presidential Young Investigator Award, Eli Lilly Analytical Chemistry Award, Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities Award for the development of automated DNA sequencing, American Chemical Society Award in Chemical Instrumentation, and will be receiving the Pittcon Analytical Chemistry Award in March 2010. He has served in the past on the NIH National Human Genome Research Institute Advisory Council and the NIH Human Genome study section, and currently serves as chair of the NIH Instrumentation and Systems Development study section. He is an author of ~200 scientific papers and inventor on 23 issued U.S. patents. He is a cofounder of three biotechnology companies, Third Wave Technologies, GenTel BioSciences, and Apartia Pharmaceuticals. Third Wave was acquired in June 2008 by Hologic, Inc. for $580M.
He served for many years on the Board of Directors of two public companies (Visible Genetics and Third Wave Technologies) and presently serves on the Board of Directors of three private companies, GWC Technologies, GenTel BioSciences, and Apartia Pharmaceuticals. He also serves as chair of the Scientific Advisory Board for GenTel BioSciences. His primary area of research is in the development of new technologies for the analysis and manipulation of biomolecules.
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| Pittsburgh Conference Achievement Award: Development and Application of Novel Technoligies for Large-Scale Protein Sequence Analysis |
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WINNER: Joshua J. Coon, PhD
Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biomolecular Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Joshua J. Coon, Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will receive the 2010 Pittsburgh Conference Achievement Award. In 1998 Coon completed his B.S. in Chemistry at Central Michigan University in Mt. Pleasant, MI. Coon received his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Florida with Willard Harrison in 2002. At Florida, he developed an ambient ionization technique for peptide analyses that combined laser desorption and atmospheric pressure chemical ionization. Coon then conducted a NIH National Research Service Award Postdoctoral Fellowship in the laboratory of Professor Donald Hunt at the University of Virginia where he and John Syka carried out pioneering work on the development of electron transfer dissociation (ETD).
This activation technique is now commonly used for the identification of labile post-translational modifications and for large-scale protein sequencing. In the fall of 2005 he began his current appointment as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biomolecular Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. With emphasis on ion chemistry and instrumentation, his group develops and applies new enabling mass spectrometry-based (MS) proteomic technologies. These cutting-edge tools allow them to examine the molecular events leading to cell differentiation of human embryonic stem cells and the combinatorial combination of histone post-translational modifications in pluripotent stem cells.
His research interest also focuses on the development of ETD for intact protein sequencing and on the use and application of algorithms enabling protein/peptide identification from product ion spectra. He holds several patents on MS technologies and has published over 40 peer-reviewed scientific papers. He has been previously recognized with a number of prestigious awards, including the Beckman Young Investigator, the American Society for Mass Spectrometry Research Award, the NSF CAREER Award, the Eli Lilly and Company Young Investigator, and the Ken Standing Award.
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| Pittsburgh Spectroscopy Award - Frontiers of Vibrational Spectroscopy of Biosystems and Energy Conversion (SSP) |
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WINNER: Robin M. Hochstrasser
University of Pennsylvania
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Hochstrasser in the late 60's and 70's was a pioneer of nonlinear, ultrafast spectroscopy of molecular condensed phases. Quantitative ultrafast protein dynamics began with his group's experiments on hemoglobins (1978). He also initiated investigations of ultrafast cis-trans isomerization of molecules(1978, 1983) and he time resolved how the isomerization rates changed from gaseous to liquid state (1985). Through seminal femtosecond infrared (IR) experiments his group uncovered the motions and binding of small ligands inside hemoglobin (1989). His now widely adopted 2D IR experiments (1998, 1999, 2000) yielded peptide and ion-water structure on ultrafast time scales.
Based on control of femtosecond IR pulse sequences that intercept vibrational coherences, these 2D IR results display the coupling between chemical bonds of different peices of complex structures and the evolution of their structure and solvation distributions, hitherto unknown. This work has defined a new role for ultrafast methods in chemistry, materials and biology by unifying previous nonlinear spectroscopies. The 2D IR of isotopomers of aqueous ions, small peptides, a-helices and trans membrane proteins have exposed fast hydrogen bond and vibrational dynamics not previously seen.
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| Ralph N. Adams Award |
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WINNER: Catherine Fenselau
Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Maryland
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Catherine Fenselau, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Maryland, will receive the 2010 Pittsburgh Conference Adams Award. Fenselau completed her A.B. at Bryn Mawr College and her Ph.D.in Carl Djerassi’s laboratory at Stanford University, where she carried out some of the first deuterium-labeling studies to characterize fragmentation mechanisms of ion radicals. After post-doctoral work with Melvin Calvin (UC Berkeley), in 1967 she joined the faculty of The Johns Hopkins University Medical School, in the Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. Here she was given the mandate to develop and exploit mass spectrometry in biomedical research. Independently and in collaborations she published many “firsts” in pharmacology, glycobiology and microbiology. She was a thought-leader as mass spectrometry moved toward analyses of heavier biopolymers, examining, for example, the isotope ratios and fragmentation rates associated with ions that weighed more than 10,000 Da.
She moved to the University of Maryland system in 1988, where she works at the protein level, studying mechanisms of drug resistance and immunosuppression in tumors. She has been Visiting Professor at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Kansai University (Japan), and the University of Warwick (U.K.). She holds several patents on mass spectrometry technologies and has published more than 340 peer-reviewed scientific papers. She is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Maryland Science Center, Assoc. Editor for Analytical Chemistry, past president of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry and past (founding) president of the US Human Proteome Organization. She has previously been recognized with a number of prestigious awards, including the Pittsburgh Spectroscopy Society Medal, the American Chemical Society Garvan Medal, the American Chemical Society Field and Franklin Award, and the Thomson Medal from the International Mass Spectrometry Foundation.
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| Williams Wright Award |
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WINNER: Patrick J. Treado, Ph.D.
Founder and Chief Technology Officer of ChemImage Corporation
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Patrick J. Treado, Ph.D. is Founder and Chief Technology Officer of ChemImage Corporation, a developer of molecular chemical imaging instruments and software. Dr. Treado is an analytical spectroscopist (B.S. Georgetown University; Ph.D. University of Michigan; Postdoc National Institutes of Health) with years of experience in the chemical imaging field, where he is a recognized leader. Dr. Treado’s research interests involve the development of IR, Raman and fluorescence chemical imaging and its application to materials analysis, clinical diagnostics, process monitoring and threat detection.
Dr. Treado has consulted and lectured widely, and is the author of over 150 publications and patents on chemical imaging technology, methodology and applications. Dr. Treado contributes to standards development and has led the development of a Standard Practice for Evaluating the Performance of Raman Imaging Instruments through ASTM E13.10. Dr. Treado also serves as Chair of AOAC International Methods Committee L on Biological Threat Agents, which evaluates official methods for detection of Bacillus anthracis (BA) and other biothreat agents. Dr. Treado is the recipient of several prestigious awards, including the 1998 Coblentz Award, a 2001 R&D 100 Award for the ChemImage FALCON Raman Chemical Imaging Microscope, the 1993 Meggers Award and the 1995 Meggers Award.
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| Young Investigator Award from Subdivision on Chromatography and Separation Chemistry of the Analytical Chemistry Division of the ACS |
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WINNER: Craig A. Aspinwall
Department of Chemistry, University of Arizona
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The Analytical Chemistry Award for Young Investigators in Separation Science was instituted by the Subdivision of Chromatography and Separation Science, a subdivision of the Analytical Division of the American Chemical Society. The award was established to recognize and encourage outstanding contributions to the field of separation science by a young chemist or chemical engineer who has earned his or her highest degree within ten years of January 1 of the year of the award.
The recipient of the 2009 Award is Craig A. Aspinwall of the University of Arizona. Craig has made leading edge contributions to separation science to answer questions in neuroscience. His group has made advances in real time on-line monitoring of neurotransmitters and hormones. In these endeavors, he has developed a novel approach for optical sample introduction in capillary separations, referred to as photolytic optical gating, which provides marked enhancements in sensitivity by markedly reducing the luminescence background. To make this approach more broadly applicable, a series of fluorescence derivatization reactions and a new caged-fluorophore has been developed. To further improve the sensitivity, a new scheme for collecting and deconvoluting data in Hadamard Transform capillary electrophoresis (HTCE) was developed which was demonstrated to achieve an unprecedented combination of speed and sensitivity in a multiplexed separation. The resulting “fast” HTCE was used to analyze neurotransmitters and related compounds for time-resolved monitoring. When fast HTCE and photolytic sample injection were combined, ultrahigh sensitivity was obtained with on-column detection limits as low as 5 pM (ca. 18 molecules per injection event) and separation efficiencies exceeding 1 x 106 plates/m and total multiplexed separation times as low as 8 s with the capacity for continuous, online separations.
An additional contribution to separation science was to increase separation selectivity through the development of a series of biomimetic separation media using polymeric phospholipid materials. The resulting polymer phospholipid bilayers marked reduce non-specific protein adsorption, a major problem for capillary separations, and provide a platform for incorporation of specific binding interactions via functionalization of the lipid bilayer. It was recently shown that transmembrane proteins can be incorporated into the highly stable polymeric phospholipid bilayers, therein providing for novel biomolecular interactions for separation systems.
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| Pittcon Heritage Award |
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WINNER: Professor Walter Jennings
Professor Emeritus, University of California, Davis, and Co-founder of J&W Scientific
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Dr. Walter Jennings, Professor Emeritus of the University of California Davis and co-founder of J&W Scientific will receive the 2010 Pittcon Heritage Award. This award recognizes outstanding individuals whose entrepreneurial careers have shaped the instrumentation community, inspired achievement, promoted public understanding of the modern instrumentation sciences, and highlighted the role of analytical chemistry in world economies.
Professor Jennings built the first gas chromatograph in 1954 at UC Davis. His laboratory became one of the first incubators for scientists developing GC fundamentals, applications, sample preparation, columns, and instrumentation. In his 35 years there, he mentored many of the people who would be leaders in academic, industry, and instrumentation company laboratories. He has authored over 300 publications, and his book Analytical Gas Chromatography (with Mittlefehldt and Stremple) is a recognized classic. In collaboration with a doctoral student, he founded J&W Scientific, Inc. in 1974. J&W grew to become the world's largest supplier of fused silica columns, and was purchased in 1986 by Fisons plc. In 1996, a management group led by Professor Jennings repurchased the company. In 2000, the company was sold to Agilent Technologies, Inc. for whom Dr. Jennings continues to function as a consultant.
Professor Jennings has served as Adviser in GC to the governments of Bulgaria and Poland under the auspices of the International Atomic Energy Agency. He is recognized as a “Senior American Scientist” by the German Government, and in 1973 received the prestigious “Humboldt-Preis” from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Prof. Jennings has received numerous awards, including the Founders Award in Gas Chromatography administered by the Beckman Corporation, the Keene Dimick Award, the A.J.P. Martin Gold Medal from the Chromatographic Society (UK), the Silver Jubilee Award of the 19th International Symposium on Capillary Chromatography, the Award of Distinction from the University of California, Davis, the Dal Nogare Award, the Anachem Award, the CASSS award for achievements in the separation sciences, and the LC-GC award for Lifetime Achievements in Chromatography.
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