$25,000 Grant Awarded for Nanostimulator Research On Amplification in the Inner Ear

The $25,000 PI NanoInnovation Grant™ was awarded to Andrea Lelli, Eric A. Stauffer and Jeffrey R. Holt,  Department of Neuroscience, University of Virginia Medical School, Charlottesville, VA,

for the following submission:

A Fast Mechanical Nanostimulator to Study Sensory Transduction and Amplification in the Inner Ear

Runners up were the following proposals:

Maskless Optical Lithography Below the Diffraction Limit and Outside of the Near-Field Spectroscopy

Submitted by: Peter RH Stark, Harvard Medical School, Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology Boston, MA

and

Scanning Sideview AFM: Simultaneous atomic force microscopy and sideview imaging for studies of cell mechanics Submitted by: Ovijit Chaudhuri and Sapun H. Parekh, Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley

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About the PI and the PI NanoInnovation Grant

The PI (Physik Instrumente) L.P. NanoInnovation Grant™ is an annual program to support research related to nanotechnology, optics and biotechnology in the US and Canada.