Awards
01.11.2011
Christoph Gerber receives Scientific Excellence Award
On 27th October 2011, Professor Dr. Christoph Gerber from the Swiss Nanoscience Institute (SNI) at the University of Basel received the Scientific Excellence Award from the Allicance of NanoHealth (ANH). He was awarded for his outstanding scientific contribution in nanotechnology, nanobiotechnology and nanomedicine. The ANH especially recognized Christoph Gerber´s significant contribution to the development of the first scanning probe microscopes that made the entry into the nanoworld possible.
The Allicance of NanoHealth was founded 2004 and is with 100´000 scientists and physicians the largest Nano-Bio-Med-Consortium worldwide. It comprises eight world-class research and clinical institutions located within the world's largest collection of healthcare facilities, namely the Texas Medical Center and the greater Houston region. The ANH is the first multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional collaborative research endeavor aimed solely at using nanotechnology to bridge the gaps between medicine, biology, materials science, computer technology and public policy. With unified forces and an annual budget of more than 1 billion US Dollars, scientists of the consortium investigate in multiple interdisciplinary projects the molecular causes of different diseases and strive to develop novel nanotechnologically based diagnosis, treatment and prevention methods.
Many scientists within the consortium regularly use the atomic force microscopes for their research. Christoph Gerber is one of the pioneers who developed these microscopes with which single molecules and atoms can be imaged in their natural environment e.g. the living cell. With his team at the SNI Christoph Gerber developed the technique even further into biosensors that are now applied in diagnostics. These research activities that Gerber presented during his plenary talk raised enormous interest and appealed to the audience. For Christoph Gerber and the University of Basel it is a special honour to receive the Scientific Excellence Award from the worldwide Center of NanoHealth.
Member institutions of the ANH include the Baylor College of Medicine, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Rice University, the University of Houston, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Texas A&M Health Science Center, University of Texas Medical Branch and The Methodist Hospital Research Institute.
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