The Biosensors & Bioelectronics award will be presented to the author of the paper judged the most original contribution to the congress. Ten finalists for the award will be selected by the programme committee on the basis of the quality of submitted abstracts and awarded on the basis of full papers submitted by the prize paper deadline of
1st April 2012.
The previous winners of the Award are detailed below
| 2010 Winner |
| Nanoplasmonic pores for flow-through bioanalytical sensing |
| MP Jonsson, L Feuz, S Petronis, F Höök - Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden AB Dahlin - ETH, Switzerland |
| 2010 Equal Second |
| Seeding-induced self-assembling protein nanowires dramatically increase the sensitivity of immunoassays |
| D Men, X-E Zhang, Z-P Zhang, Y-C Guo - Wuhan Institute of Virology, China Academy of Science, China |
| Print-n-Shrink technology for the rapid production of microfluidic chips and protein microarrays |
| CA Marquette, CA Mandon, KA Heyries, LJ Blum - Université Lyon - CNRS 5246 ICBMS, France |
| 2008 Winner |
| Attomolar protein detection in complex sample matrices with semi-homogeneous fluidic force discrimination assays |
| S.P. Mulvaney, C.N. Ibe, K. Myers, J.C. Rife, C.R. Tamanaha, L J. Whitman - US Naval Research Laboratory, USA |
| Runner-Up 1 |
| Selection of DNA aptamers against insulin and construction of an aptameric enzyme subunit for insulin sensing |
| K. Ikebukuro, W. Yoshida, M. Takase, H. Hasegawa, Y. Morita, K. Sode - Tokyo University of Agriculture & Technology, Japan |
| Runner-Up 2 |
| Label-less AC impedimetric antibody based sensors with pg ml-1 sensitivities for point-of-care biomedical applications |
| S.P.J. Higson, A.C. Barton, S.D. Collyer, F. Davis, G.-Z. Garifallou, G. Tsekenis - Cranfield University E. Tully, R. O’Kennedy - Dublin City University, Ireland T. Gibson, P. Millner - University of Leeds, UK |
| 2006 Winner |
| CombiMatrix oligonucleotide arrays: Genotyping and gene expression assays employing electrochemical detection |
| A.L. Ghindilis, M.W. Smith, K.R. Schwarzkopf, K.M. Roth, K.B. Peyvan, S.B. Munro, M.J.Lodes, A.G. Stöver, K. Bernards, K. Dill, A. McShea - CombiMatrix Corporation, USA |
| Runner-Up 1 |
| Novel fluorescent sensing system for a-fructosyl amino acids based on engineered fructosyl amino acid binding protein |
| A. Sakaguchi, S. Ferri, K. Sode - Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan |
| Runner-Up 2 |
| Optically active nanoparticle layers for the label-free analysis of biospecific interactions in array formats |
| R. Dahint, E. Trileva, H. Acunman, U. Konrad, M. Zimmer, M. Himmelhaus - University of Heidelberg, Germany V. Stadler - German Cancer Centre, Germany |