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Mr.
Ying-Chih Wang wins the Helen Carr Peake Research Prize
for 2005
Prize promotes excellence in student biomedical research
For Immediate Release
MONDAY, 4 April 2005
Contact: William Smith, Assistant
Director for Finance and Sponsor
Relations
Phone: +1.617.253.5621
Email: whs@mit.edu
CAMBRIDGE, MA. 04.04.2005
The Research Laboratory
of Electronics (RLE) at the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology (MIT) announces
that Mr. Ying-Chih Wang has won the Helen Carr
Peake Research Prize for 2005.
Mr. Wang is a graduate student in the Department
of Mechanical Engineering, who is doing research
in RLE under the supervision of Professor
Jongyoon Han.
Mr. Wang's Master's thesis, completed in 2004,
demonstrated new techniques for on-chip multi-dimensional
biomolecule separation, and led to a publication
in the journal Analytical Chemistry. The work
for which he is receiving the prize is a breakthough
achievement in biomolecule concentration. By taking
advantage of unique properties of a nanofluidic
channel, Mr. Wang has shown that it is possible
to collect and concentrate proteins and
peptides (or any other biomolecule, such as DNA)
by factors as large as 10^6, whereas existing techniques
have yielded concentration
factors only up to ~10^3. Thus, Mr. Wang's achievements
may lead to enormous advances in biomolecule separation.
He gave an invited conference
presentation on this work at MicroScale Bioseparations
2005, and has submitted a paper on this work to
the journal Analytical Chemistry
The Helen Carr Peake Research Prize was established
through a donation of Dr. Sheldon Pang, an RLE/EPL
alumnus. It consists of an
annual award of $2000 to an MIT student for bioengineering
research performed in either RLE or EPL. This year
is the third time the
prize is being awarded. The prize presentation
to Mr. Wang will occur later this spring at an
award luncheon.
Helen Carr Peake, the wife of Professor William
T. Peake, passed away in 2002. Dr. Pang's gift
honors her memory and commemorates the
profound influence of the Peakes on his education
and professional development. The selection of
Mr. Wang was done by a committee
consisting of Professor Dennis
M. Freeman (MIT/RLE),
Professor Jeffrey
H. Shapiro (MIT, Director RLE),
Professor M. Charles Liberman
(Harvard, Director EPL), and Professor William
T. Peake (MIT/RLE/EPL).
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