ANNUAL PRIZE AWARDS: The winners of these prizes will be awarded during an evening session of the upcoming FNANO23 conference and be invited to give prize lectures at FNANO23.

Annual ISNSCE Nanoscience Prize Award:

The ISNSCE Nanoscience Prize recognizes life-long achievements by a researcher working in any area of nanoscience. It is awarded each year to recognize and encourage outstanding research in all areas of nanoscience. The winner will be invited to give the Keynote Lecture in an evening session at FNANO24. The ISNSCE Nanoscience Prize will be awarded during an evening session of the upcoming FNANO24 conference.

Winners of the ISNSCE Ned Seeman Nanoscience Prize:

• 2024: To be announced
• 2023: Frances Arnold, for research in directed evolution for the optimization of enzymes performed at Caltech
• 2022: Not awarded
• 2021: Cees Dekker, for research in Nanoscience performed at Technical University of Delft
• 2020: Samuel I. Stupp, for research in Nanoscience performed at Northwestern University
• 2019: David Leigh, for research in Nanoscience performed at University of Manchester
• 2017: Angela Belcher, for research in Nanoscience performed at MIT
• 2016: Christoph Gerber, for research in Nanoscience performed at University of Basel
• 2015: Paul Rothemund, for research in DNA Nanoscience performed at California Institute of Technology
• 2014: Makoto Fujta, for research in Nanoscience performed at University of Tokyo
• 2013: Bartosz Grzybowski, for research in Nanoscience performed at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology
• 2012: Cees Dekker, for research in Nanoscience performed at Delft University of Technology
• 2011: Nadrian Seeman, for research in DNA Nanoscience performed at New York University
• 2010: James Fraser Stoddart, for research in Nanoscience performed at Northwestern University
• 2009: Paul Alivisatos, for research in Nanoscience performed at University of California, Berkeley
• 2008: George Whitesides, for research in Nanoscience performed at Harvard University

 

The Robert Dirks Molecular Programming Prize:
The Dirks Prize recognizes exceptional early-career achievement by a researcher working in any area of molecular programming, whether theory, experiment, computation, or a combination thereof. The winner will be invited to give a Prize Lecture at FNANO23.

• 2024: To be announced
• 2023: Qi Shen , for research performed at Yale University
• 2022: Kasturi Chakraborty, for research performed at University of Chicago
• 2021: Samuel Schaffter, for research performed at Johns Hopkins University
• 2020: Zibo Chen, for research performed at University of Washington
• 2019: Grigory Tikhomirov, for research performed at California Institute of Technology
• 2018: Fei Zhang, for research performed at Arizona State University
• 2017: Ashwin Gopinath, for research performed at California Institute of Technology
• 2016: Thomas Ouldridge, for research performed at University of Oxford