Yingchan Guo

“Characterizing mechanisms and energy surfaces of proton, metal, and methyl transfer in gas-phase charge inversion ion/ion reactions involving lipids and diacids.”

Jason Ware

“Electrochemical Analysis of Dielectrophoresis Isolated Extracellular Vesicles from Undiluted Plasma to Identify Pancreatic Cancer”

Carlos Larriba-Andaluz

“Virtually Limitless Resolution Ion Mobility Spectrometer through diffusion constriction using SLIM platforms”

Jelena Timarac-Popović

“Identification and Quantification of Nanoplastics Using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy Coupled with Nanoelectromechanical Systems”

Past Recipients

2024 INNOVATION AWARD WINNER:

Yi You

2023 INNOVATION AWARD WINNER:

Acoustic Ion Manipulation: A Novel Approach to Enhance Ion-based Spectroscopies

Jacob T. Shelley

2022 INNOVATION AWARD WINNER: 

Opto-Lipidomics of Tissues; 

Mads S. Bergholt

2021 INNOVATION AWARD WINNER: 

EASI: A New Paradigm for Mass Spectral Identifications; 

Glen P. Jackson

2019 INNOVATION AWARD WINNERS:

Chemical Approaches to Improve Nanopore Single-Molecule Sensing; 

Jason R. Dwyer, James Hagan; University of Rhode Island

2018 INNOVATION AWARD WINNERS: 

Electrically Triggered Water-in-Oil Droplets for Serial Femtosecond Crystallography)
Alexandra Ros (Arizona State University);

Interband Cascade Laser Frequency Combs: A New Tool for Miniaturization

Benedikt Schwarz (Technische Universität Wien);

2017 INNOVATION AWARD WINNER:
Optical Reflection and Waveguiding of Sound in Free Space
Daniel Kazal¹, Ellen Holthoff², Brian Cullum¹; ¹University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 
²Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD

2016 INNOVATION AWARD WINNER:
An Inexpensive Medical Device for Barrett’s Esophagus Screening; Rohith Reddy^{1, 2},
Michalina Gora^1,2, Jing Dong^{1, 2}, Matthew Beatty^{, 2}, Wolfgang Trasischker^{1, 2}, Kanwarpal Singh^1,2,
Amna Soomro^{, 2}, Catriona Grant^{, 2}, Mireille Rosenberg^{, 2}, Guillermo Tearney^{1, 2}; ¹Harvard Medical School; ²Massachusetts General Hospital

Interview with Rohith Reddy by Spectroscopy

2015 INNOVATION AWARD WINNERS:

Five-dimensional Single Particle Tracking in Live Cells; Ning Fang¹, Yan Gu²,Kuangcai Chen^1,2, Tian Xia⁴; ¹Georgia State University; ²Iowa State University; ³Ames Laboratory, USDOE; ⁴Huazhong University of Science & 

Technology

SERS in Live 3D Cell Cultures as a New Tool for Drug Discovery; Colin Campbell¹, Lauren Jamieson¹, Pierre Bagnaninchi¹, David Harrison² Victoria Camus; 

¹University of Edinburgh; ²University of St Andrews

2014 INNOVATION AWARD WINNER:

Sub-PPM Detection Limits in Powder X-Ray Diffraction Guided by Second Harmonic Generation Imaging; Garth Simpson, Purdue University
Interview with Garth Simpson by Spectroscopy Magazine

2013 INNOVATION AWARD WINNERS:
Imaging Quantum Effects in Biological Systems; Gregory S. Engel, The University of Chicago
Interview with Gregory Engel by Spectroscopy Magazine

Portable Spectrometry: Making Good Use of CMOS Detectors; Alexander Scheeline¹, Thu Anh Bui^1,2; ¹SpectroClick, Inc.,  ²Vietnam National University Hanoi      Interview with Alexander Scheeline by Spectroscopy Magazine

2012 INNOVATION AWARD WINNER:
Rohit Bhargava, University of Illinois, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
Advancing Infrared Microscopy Instrumentation by Theory and Computation; Rohit Bhargava, P. Scott Carney, Rohith Reddy, Kevin Yeh, Thomas van Dijk, Matthew Gelber, Matthew V. Schulmerich; University of Illinois, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology

2011 INNOVATION AWARD WINNERS
Ultrasound Enhanced ATR mid-IR Fibre Optic Probe for Spectroscopy of Particles in Suspensions; Cosima Koch, Markus Brandstetter, Stefan Radel, Bernhard Lendl; Vienna University of Technology, Austria

Interview with Koch and Lendl
Large-Area Standoff Planetary Raman Measurements Using a Novel Spatial Heterodyne Fourier Transform Raman Spectrometer; S. Michael Angel1, Nathaniel R. Gomer1, Shiv K. Sharma2, J. Chance Carter3; 1University of South Carolina, 2University of Hawaii, 3Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Interview with Angel
Single Molecule Fluorescence Imaging Studies of Dynamic Processes in Reversed Phase Chromatographic Materials; Justin Cooper, Eric Peterson, Joel Harris, University of Utah

Interview with Cooper
Laser Ablation Molecular Isotopic Spectrometry - New Dimension of LIBS ; Alexander Bol'shakov¹, Richard Russo^1,2, Xianglei Mao², Dale Perry², Osman Sorkhabi², Chris McKay³; ¹Applied Spectra, Inc., Fremont, CA, ²LBNL, Berkeley, CA, ³NASA-Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA

Interview with Bol'shakov