From left: Harp Minhas, Manabu Tokeshi, Joydeep Lahiri, Andreas Manz

Manabu Tokeshi has been named as the 2007 winner of the Pioneers in Miniaturisation Prize. The prize, first awarded in 2006, was established by two of the major players in the miniaturisation sector, Lab on a Chip and Corning Incorporated. The prize aims to promote miniaturisation through micro and nanotechnologies to the wider scientific community and encourage both young and new scientists into the field.

The presentation of this prestigious award was made at the µTAS 2007 conference held in Paris, France in October.

Tokeshi, an associate Professor in the Department of Applied Chemistry at the Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University, Japan has a high reputation in the international research communities of miniaturised systems and related application fields.

Recent projects include continuous-flow chemical processing on a microchip by combining microunit operations and a multiphase flow network, thermal lens micro optical devices, and determination of carcinoembryonic antigen in human sera by integrated bead-bed immunoassay in a microchip for cancer diagnosis.

Nominations for the third annual Pioneers of Miniaturisation prize, which will be awarded at the µTAS 2008 conference, are now welcome.