First prize to Philip Frederix of the University of Leuven
The jury has decided to select Mr. Filip Frederix of the University of Leuven
as winner of the International DSM Award for Chemistry and Technology 2004 in
recognition of his research concerning the use of self-assembly for the
realisation of biosensors.
He performed this research at the IMEC institute and the laboratory for
Physical & Analytical Chemistry under the supervision of Professor Guido Maes.
The winner's special achievement is the realisation of highly sensitive and
selective, well-defined and reproducible biosensors, using nanoscaled
self-assembly systems, S-layers and dendrimers. He managed to integrate
aspects out of biotechnology and out of nanotechnology, leading to principles
that enable the optimisation of biosensors for a variety of applications.
A striking aspect of the research is that a novel nanotechnology based
biosensing technique has been developed into a portable, cheap and disposable
biosensor.
The jury is impressed by the amount of work carried out and
by the international recognition that the work already received and is
therefore pleased to present to Mr. Frederix the first prize of the
International DSM Award for Chemistry and Technology 2004.
Winner of the second prize is Jürgen Groll of the University of Ulm (D) and
winner of the third prize is Nathalie Charlier of the Catholic University of
Leuven (B).
