Best paper Award for Women

End of April 2007, Natalija Backmann, Anisoara Socoliuc and Meike Stöhr received the Best Paper Awards from the NCCR Nanoscale Science. The prize was advertized in February 2007 for the first time. From now on it will be awarded each year and will honour the best publications to which female researchers made a major contribution.

Natalija Backmann, Anisoara Socoliuc and Meike Stöhr (from left)

Natalija Backmann from Martin Hegner’s group received the award for her PNAS paper A label-free immunosensor array using single-chain antibody fragments.

Anisoara Socoliuc from Ernst Meyer’s group was honoured for her Science paper Atomic-scale control of friction by actuation of nanometer-sized contacts.

Meike Stöhr from the Nanolab received the award for her publication in Angewandte Chemie Controlling molecular assembly in two dimensions: the concentration dependence of thermally induced 2D aggregation of molecules on a metal surface.