Ocean Optics, the industry leader in modular spectroscopy applications and products, recently named Gabriel Orsinger of the University of Arizona as winner of the 2014 Ocean Optics Young Investigator Award.
The Young Investigator Award is presented to a researcher who is a graduate student or has completed their graduate work in the last five years and is the primary author of the best juried paper submitted as part of the “Colloidal Quantum Dots for Biomedical Applications IX” conference at the 2014 BiOS/Photonics West Symposium. The honor includes a $1000 investigator reward and a company grant to the investigator’s advisor.
Orsinger was honored for his work with advisor Dr. Marek Romanowski, Research Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Arizona Cancer Center, as presented in the paper “Intracellular light-induced release of signaling molecules from gold-coated liposomes.” Their work describes the use of gold-coated liposomes as a tool for studying cellular behavior as it relates to cancer and other diseases.
Ocean Optics has sponsored the Young Investigator Award since 2005 and has long supported young scientists from around the world through sponsorships, grant programs and partnership.
Photo: Pictured (from left to right) at the 4 February 2014 presentation of the 2014 Ocean Optics Young Investigator Award are David Creasey, vice president of sales and marketing for Ocean Optics; Gabriel Orsinger of the University of Arizona, recipient of the award; and co-chairs of the Colloidal Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications conference Wolfgang Parak of Philipps-Universität Marburg (Marburg, Germany) and Marek Osinski of the University of New Mexico. Photo courtesy of SPIE.
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