Ocean Optics Names Winner of 2009 Young Investigator Award
Cash prize and grant awarded during SPIE BiOS/Photonics West 2009 conference
Dunedin, FL (February 6, 2009) – Ocean Optics, the industry leader in miniature photonics, is pleased to announce that Kelly L. Boeneman, Ph.D., is the winner of the SPIE 2009 Young Investigator Award sponsored by the company.
The Young Investigator Award is presented to the researcher who is no more than five years out of school and is author of the best juried paper submitted as part of the “Colloidal Quantum Dots for Biomedical Applications IV” session of the BiOS section of Photonics West. The honor includes a $1,000 investigator reward and $1,000 grant to the investigator’s advisor.
Boeneman, a post-doctoral researcher at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington, D.C., was honored for her work as lead author of “Peptide linkers for the assembly of semiconductor quantum dot bioconjugates” (paper 7189-14), which she presented on Saturday, Jan. 24 at the conference. Her NRL advisor is Dr. Igor Medintz, a molecular biologist who has done extensive work in nanoparticles and biosensors.
“Supporting and encouraging young scientists is something near and very dear to our hearts,” said Rob Randelman, President of Ocean Optics. “We have a long history of support for researchers ranging from undergraduate students to post-doctoral fellows to novice professionals and budding entrepreneurs. Young investigators represent the promise of our industry.”
