Ocean Optics Announces the Winner of The Young Investigator Award

January 2008

Cash prize and grant to be awarded at BiOS Conference in San Jose, California

January 17, 2008 - Dunedin, FL – Ocean Optics (www.oceanoptics.com), the industry leader in miniature spectrometers, has announced the winner of their Young Investigator Award and will be presenting a cash prize and grant January 20, 2008 at the 4:50 pm session at this year’s BiOS Conference in Convention Center Room A5.

The award is presented to the author of the best juried paper during the Colloidal Quantum Dots for Biomedical Applications session, who is no more than 5 years out of school.

This year’s cash prize of $1,000 will be awarded to Graduate Student, Allison M. Dennis of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology and author of Quantom dot-fluorescent protein FRET probes for protease activity. Additionally, Ocean Optics will award a $1,000 grant to Dennis’ advisor, Professor Gang Bao, Ph.D., the university’s Robert A. Milton Chair in Biomedical Engineering.

“Supporting and encouraging young scientists is something near and very dear to our hearts,” says Rob Randelman, President of Ocean Optics. “Young investigators represent the promise of our industry.”