60 May / June 2017
Professor Andreas Manz: Winner of the 2017
Chromatographic Society Martin Medal Professor Tony Edge, Vice-President, The Chromatographic Society & Chair of the Society’s Awards Panel
Each September the Chromatographic Society executive committee convenes to discuss the award of their Jubilee and Martin medals for the following year. The Martin medal is named after Professor A.J.P. Martin who together with Richard Synge received the Noble Prize chemistry in 1952 for their seminal work on partition chromatography. In 1978 Professor Martin gave permission for his name to be associated with this award. The ‘Martin Medal’ is the highest honour the Society confers. Indeed, it is recognised by the international chromatography community as being one of highest accolades that can be bestowed upon a chromatographer and is awarded to scientists who have made outstanding contributions to the advancement of separation science.
The nominations for this medal category for 2017 were extremely strong and included a number of highly prominent separation scientists. But in the last week it has been announced that Professor Andreas Manz will be awarded for a Martin medal in 2017.
Professor Andreas Manz
Andreas Manz is one of the pioneers in microchip technology used for chemical applications. He was involved in the development of high speed analysers based on capillary electrophoresis, liquid chromatography and flow injection analysis. These analysers are based on the microfabrication processes originally developed for
microelectronics. He conducted most of his early research with his group at Ciba-Geigy Ltd in Basel, Switzerland, then at Imperial College in London, United Kingdom, and finally, at ISAS – the Institute for Analytical Sciences, Dortmund Germany. He developed a novel concept for Miniaturized Total Analysis Systems (µ-TAS), which involves sampling, sample pretreatment, separation, and detection performed in an integrated microsystem, with a chemical parameter (for example, the concentration of a compound) that is periodically transformed into an
electronic or an optical signal. Such a system is in fact a hybrid which offers the advantages of a sophisticated analysis system within the size of a chemical sensor. He has published over 220 papers in scientific journals, which are cited over 11,000 times. In addition, he is the inventor in 39 patents.
He was the Founding Member and Chairman of the Editorial Board of the journal ‘Lab on a Chip’ published by the Royal Society of Chemistry in the United Kingdom. He was a founding member and member of the board of the annual international conference ‘micro TAS’. He was also involved in several start-up companies, including Caliper, Casect, Sensory Design & Technology, Predicant Biosciences, SpinX, Ambrigen and Genetic Microdevices.
Professor Manz has been recognised of his contributions on many previous occasions and some of his more notable awards include;
1998 Theophilus Redwood Lecturership of the Royal Society of Chemistry, 1996 H.E. Merck Award for Analytical Chemistry (Merck, Germany), and in 2003 the M.J.E. Golay Award.
Within the field of microchip technology, Professor Manz has been the leading researcher for many years and many of his students and collaborators have progressed into positions of seniority within this field due to his guidance. It is therefore with great delight that The Chromatographic Society awards the 2017 Martin Medal to Professor Andreas Manz. Professor Manz will receive his award at the International Conference on HPLC in Prague in June 2017.
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