Awards
Paul Bassan (Peter Gardners research group) has been awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry's Ronald Belcher Award for his work on "The scattering of IR radiation from biological cells and the development of a correction algorithm to remove the effects of resonant Mie scattering from IR spectra". This work has transformed the field of biomedical IR spectroscopy. In addition to the medal and £500, Paul has been invited to deliver a lecture at the Analytical Reserach Forum meeting to be held at the University of Manchester on 25-27th July 2011. |
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Professor J'unichi Tsujii (NaCTeM) was awarded with the prestigious medal of honour with purple ribbon by the government of Japan in 2010 for his academic contributions to the field of natural language processing, machine translation and biomedical text mining. The Japanese government bestows these medals in recognition for achievements in academia, arts and sports. |
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Congratulations to the “Tunnelling team”: Mike Sutcliffe, David Leys, Nigel Scrutton, Sam Hay, Chris Pudney, Linus Johannissen, Jiayun Pang and Derren Heyes The team are the first winners of the RSC Rita & John Cornforth Award (previously the Chemistry Biology Interface Forum Team Award). This award rewards scientists working in collaborative research teams with both chemistry and the life sciences disciplines. "Tunnelling-ready Configuration" |
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"Beyond the transition state theory paradigm (2009-2014) This award is given to outstanding scientists holding posts at UK universities and is jointly funded by the Wolfson Foundation and the Office of Science and Technology. |
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Professor Nick Turner Prof Nick Turner has been awarded the Organic Industrial Chemistry award for his chemo-enzymatic approach to enantiomerically pure amino acids and amines, and its commercialization via the start-up company Ingenza. |
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Theophilus Redwood Award 2009 Professor John Vickerman Prof John Vickerman was announced the winner of the Theophilus Redwood award, for his outstanding contribution to the development and application of secondary ion mass spectrometry techniques for surface analysis and 3D chemical imaging of organic and biological systems. |
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Simon Gaskell At the recent annual conference of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry in Philadelphia, Simon Gaskell was awarded – jointly with Prof. Vicki Wysocki of the University of Arizona – the Distinguished Contribution Award. Previous recipients in the Award’s 20-year history include (in 1991) the UMIST scientist, Michael Barber, after whom the Centre for Mass Spectrometry is named. This year’s award recognised Wysocki and Gaskell’s development – both independently and partly in collaboration - of the “mobile proton” hypothesis. This conceptual framework – generally associated with the mass spectrometric analysis of peptides but actually of broader relevance – provides an explanation for the extent and direction of gas-phase fragmentation of protonated ions during tandem mass spectrometry. The significance derives primarily from the ubiquitous use of tandem MS in proteome analyses. |
