Awards
Awards of Andreas Hierlemann
2024 - Springer Nature Test of Time Award at MicroTAS 2024
external page Springer Nature Test of Time Award by external page Microsystems & Nanoengineering to recognize research presented at MicroTAS conferences within the last 10-15 years, which still impacts today's research in the field of microtechnology and microfluidics.
2022 - Dandelion Award for Entrepreneurship at ETHZ
external page Dandelion Award by ETH Entrepreneur Club & ETH AI Center to recognize professors for outstanding efforts to promote entrepreneurship at ETH Zurich. external page Dandelion Awardees 2022
2021 - Finalist ETHZ "Art of Leadership Award" (ALEA)
"ALEA" Award by AVETH, ETH Diversity and HR for enabling advanced and innovative working conditions and promoting reconciliation of work, family and avocational engagement. ALEA Finalists 2021
2015 - ERC Advanced Grant (3.5 Mio Euro)
external page ERC Advanced Grant neuroXscales: Microtechnology and integrated microsystems to investigate neuronal networks across scales (external page Grant 694829) of European Research Council (external page ERC). ETH life article
2012 - Golden Owl Prize
Golden Owl, awarded each year by ETH Zurich’s student association within every department in appreciation of excellent teaching. Awardees 2012
2011 - DECHEMA Prize (20,000 Euro)
external page DECHEMA Prize of external page Max-Buchner Research Foundation for pioneering work in sensor systems by combining chemical and biological systems with microelectronics.
2010 - ERC Advanced Grant (2.5 Mio Euro)
external page ERC Advanced Grant NeuroCMOS: Seamless integration of neurons with CMOS microelectronics (external page Grant 267351) of European Research Council (external page ERC). ETH life article
2008 - Eurosensors Fellow Award 2008
external page Eurosensors Fellow Award for outstanding contributions to the field of chemical and biological sensors and to external page Eurosensors.
2007 - Swiss Technology Award 2007
Awardee for "Integrated blood pressure monitoring system". ETH life article (German)
2005 - Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award 2005
external page Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award for most outstanding review paper in all journals, magazines and transactions of IEEE societies or in Proceedings of IEEE during year 2004: external page Microfabrication Techniques for Chemical/Biosensors.
2004 - Swiss Technology Award 2004
Awardee for "MC Gas: Microchemical gas analysis system". ETH life article (German)
2004 - Special Award of the Swiss “Stiftung Natur und Umwelt” (10,000 CHF)
Special Award for development of microchemical gas analysis system.
2001 - Swiss Technology Award 2001
Awardee of the Swiss Technology Award for "Application-specific monolithic multisensor system to detect organic volatiles". ETH life article (German)
Awards of Students and Coworkers
2024 - Excellence Award
Excellence Award at the European College of Neuropsycho-pharmacology (external page ECNP) Congress in Milano, Italy to A. Marishi for contribution "NOS1AP overexpression impacts network-level electrophysiology and functional connectivity in in-vitro neuronal networks".
2024 - Best Poster Award
Best Poster Award (3rd place) at the Microphysiological Systems external page (MPS) World Summit 2024, Seattle, USA, to M. Stano for contribution "Advanced microfluidic platform for in-vitro sonodynamic therapy testing in diffuse midline glioma cell models".
2022 - Swiss 3Rs Young Investigator Award (CHF 1000)
external page 2022 Swiss 3Rs Young Investigator Award by Swiss 3R Competence Center (external page 3RCC) to Wei Wei & coworkers for paper "3D in vitro blood-brain-barrier model for investigating barrier insults" in external page Advanced Science.
2022 - Best Poster Award
Best Poster Award at Microfluidics conference, organized by European Molecular Biology Laboratory (external page EMBL), Heidelberg, Germany, to Wei Wei for contribution "3D in vitro blood-brain-barrier model with integrated TEER-sensor for investigating the pathogenesis of cerebral ischemia".
2022 - Best Poster Award
Best Poster Award at annual conference of the European Organ-on-Chip Society (external page EUROoCS) 2022, Grenoble, France, to J. Petr for contribution "Microfluidic platform for continuous, high-resolution imaging of organotypic brain-tissue slices".
2022 - ETH Medal (CHF 1'500)
ETH Medal awarded to J. Boos for dissertation (No. 27476) "Microfluidic co-culture platforms for advanced embryotoxicity testing in vitro".
2021 - Best Poster Award
Best Poster Award at Agora workshop external page Organoids in Cancer Research 2021, Lausanne, Switzerland, to J. Petr for contribution "Microfluidic Platform for Continuous, High-resolution Imaging of ex-vivo Tissue Slices".
2021 - Top 100 Swiss Startup Award
external page Top 100 Swiss Startup Award for BEL spinoff company. external page MaxWell Biosystems was ranked 52nd place. The TOP 100 STARTUP AWARD is launched each year by external page startup.ch.
2020 - Top 100 Swiss Startup Award
external page Top 100 Swiss Startup Award for BEL spinoff company. external page MaxWell Biosystems was ranked 59th place. The TOP 100 STARTUP AWARD is launched each year by external page startup.ch.
2020 - Outstanding Paper Award
Outstanding Paper Award of external page Microsystems & Nanoengineering to P. Misun and co-authors for paper"Multi-analyte Biosensor Interface for Real-time Monitoring of 3D Microtissue Spheroids in Hanging-drop Networks".
2019 - International Global 3Rs Award ($ 5000)
external page 2019 Global 3Rs Award Europe by external page AAALAC International and external page IQ Consortium to Julia Boos and coworkers for paper "Microfluidic multitissue platform for advanced embryotoxicity testing in vitro" in external page Advanced Science.
2019 - Top 100 Swiss Startup Award
external page Top 100 Swiss Startup Award for BEL spinoff company. external page MaxWell Biosystems was ranked 33rd place. The TOP 100 STARTUP AWARD is launched each year by external page startup.ch.
2018 - Top 100 Swiss Startup Award
external page Top 100 Swiss Startup Award for BEL spinoff company. external page MaxWell Biosystems was ranked 22nd place. The TOP 100 STARTUP AWARD is launched each year by external page startup.ch.
2017 - Top 100 Swiss Startup Award
external page Top 100 Swiss Startup Award for BEL spinoff company. external page MaxWell Biosystems was ranked 78th place. The TOP 100 STARTUP AWARD is launched each year by external page startup.ch.
2017 - Venture Kick (third stage, CHF 100'000)
external page Venture Kick granted third-stage award of CHF 100'000 to J. Müller, U. Frey, M. Obien, and M. Fiscella for their business idea to commercialize high-density-microelectrode-array technology developed at BEL through spin-off external page MaxWell Biosystems AG.
2017 - Venture Leaders Award
Prize awarded to MaxWell Biosystems and U. Frey. The prize is awarded by external page Venturelab for the spin-off idea and presentation (external page MaxWell Biosystems).
2016 - Best Master Thesis in Nanoscience
Best Master Thesis 2016 Award by the Swiss Nanoscience Institute (external page SNI) at the University of Basel to Elise Aeby for developing a hydrogel-based hanging-drop platform.
external page SNI news article
2016 - Venture Kick (second stage, CHF 20'000)
external page Venture Kick granted second-stage award of CHF 20'000 to J. Müller, U. Frey, M. Obien, and M. Fiscella for their business idea to commercialize high-density-microelectrode-array technology developed at BEL through spin-off external page MaxWell Biosystems AG.
2016 - International Global 3Rs Award ($ 5000)
external page 2016 Global 3Rs Award Europe by external page AAALAC International and external page IQ Consortium to Olivier Frey and coworkers for paper "3D spherical microtissues and microfluidic technology for multi-tissue experiments and analysis" in external page Journal of Biotechnology. ETH life article
2016 - Swiss OphthAward
external page Swiss OphthAWARD 2016 in category Best Experimental Work of external page Swiss Society of Ophthalmology to M. Fiscella for paper "Congenital Nystagmus Gene FRMD7 is Necessary for Establishing a Neuronal Circuit Asymmetry for Direction Selectivity" in external page Neuron.
2016 - Venture Kick (first stage, CHF 10'000)
external page Venture Kick granted first-stage award of CHF 10'000 to J. Müller, U. Frey, M. Obien, and M. Fiscella for their business idea to commercialize high-density-microelectrode-array technology developed at BEL and founding spin-off external page MaxWell Biosystems AG.
2015 - Best Poster Award
Best Poster Award at external page Transducers 2015, Anchorage, Alaska, to P. Misun for contribution"Real-time Multi-analyte Online Monitoring of 3D Cell Cultures by Integrated Enzyme-based Biosensors in Hanging-drop Networks".
2014 - British 3Rs Award (£ 5000)
external page Highly commended Award of British external page NC3Rs to Olivier Frey and coworkers for paper "Reconfigurable microfluidic hanging drop network for multi-tissue interaction and analysis" in external page Nature Communications.
2014 - Academic Enterprise (ACES) Award
2014 external page ACES Life Sciences award by external page Science|Business to BEL spinoff external page InSphero AG for developing 3D cell models of human organs for use in toxicity screens. external page Press Release
2014 - Top 100 Swiss Startup Award
external page Top 100 Swiss Startup Award for BEL spinoff company. external page InSphero was ranked 1st place. The TOP 100 STARTUP AWARD is launched each year by external page startup.ch.
2013 - Top 100 Swiss Startup Awards
external page Top 100 Swiss Startup Awards for BEL spinoffs: external page InSphero ranked 5th, external page Zurich Instruments ranked 48th. Competition each year by external page startup.ch. ETH Life Article
2013 - Best Paper Award
Best Paper Award at 16th external page Sensor+Test 2013, Nuremberg, Germany to N. Haandbaek for presentation entitled "Towards a Gigahertz Microfluidic Impedance Cytometer".
2012 - Top 100 Swiss Startup Awards
external page Top 100 Swiss Startup Award for BEL spinoffs: external page InSphero ranked 2nd, external page Zurich Instruments ranked 49th. Competition each year by external page startup.ch. ETH Life Article
2011 - Best Student Poster Award at 1st International SystemsX.ch Conference on Systems Biology in Basel, Switzerland
Award to M. Fiscella for poster entitled "Recording of Light Induced Neural Activity of Mouse Retinal Ganglion Cells on an Integrated High-density Microelectrode Array".
2011 - Top 100 Swiss Startup Awards
external page Top 100 Swiss Startup Award for BEL spinoffs: external page InSphero ranked 6th, external page Zurich Instruments 39th. Competition each year by external page startup.ch. ETH Life Article
2009 - Heuberger Winterthur Young Entrepreneur Award (CHF 150,000)
Prize awarded to J. Lichtenberg and InSphero AG for starting up a company to produce 3-dimensional tissue spheres for testing and validation of pharmacological compounds. ETH Life Article
2009 - Venture Kick (third stage, CHF 100'000)
external page Venture Kick granted 3rd stage award of CHF 100'000 to J. Lichtenberg and external page InSphero AG for business idea to market 3-dimensional tissue spheres for testing and validation of pharmacological compounds.
2009 - De Vigier Award (CHF 100'000)
external page De Vigier Award presented to S. Hafizovic, F. Heer and B. Hofstetter for starting up new and dynamic company in Switzerland, external page Zurich Instruments. Award given away by external page W.A. de Vigier foundation in Solothurn. ETH Life Article
2009 - Venture Kick (second stage, CHF 20'000)
external page Venture Kick granted 2nd stage award of CHF 20'000 to J. Lichtenberg and external page InSphero AG for business idea to market 3-dimensional tissue spheres for testing and validation of pharmacological compounds.
2008 - Venture Kick (third stage, CHF 100'000)
external page Venture Kick granted 3rd stage award of CHF 100'000 to S. Hafizovic, F. Heer and B. Hofstetter and external page Zurich Instruments AG for business idea to market high-tech instrumentation for dynamic signal analysis.
2008 - Venture Kick (first stage, CHF 10'000)
external page Venture Kick granted 1st-stage award of CHF 10'000 to J. Lichtenberg for business idea to market 3-dimensional tissue spheres for testing and validation of pharmacological compounds through spin-off company external page InSphero AG.
2008 - ETH Medal (CHF 1'500)
Download ETH Medal (PDF, 27 KB) awarded to U. Frey for dissertation (No. 17460) "High-density neural interface and microhotplate gas sensor in CMOS technology".
2008 - Venture Kick (second stage, CHF 20'000)
external page Venture Kick granted 2nd stage award of CHF 20'000 to S. Hafizovic, F. Heer, B. Hofstetter and external page Zurich Instruments AG for business idea to market high-tech instrumentation for dynamic signal analysis.
2008 - Venture Leaders Award (CHF 10'000)
Prize awarded to S. Hafizovic as selected high-tech entrepreneurs by external page Venturelab for spin-off idea (external page Zurich Instruments) and presentation.
2008 - Venture Kick (first stage, CHF 10'000)
external page Venture Kick granted 1st stage award of CHF 10'000 to S. Hafizovic, F. Heer and B. Hofstetter for business idea to market high-tech instrumentation for dynamic signal analysis and for founding spin-off company external page Zurich Instruments AG.
2006 - Best Oral Presentation Award at Eurosensors XX, Gothenburg, Sweden
Award to N. Goedecke and F. Greve for the presentation "Perforated CMOS microchips for cell immobilization and monitoring of their electrical activity".
2005 - Prix Omega 2005 (CHF 5'000)
external page Prix Omega to Markus Graf for dissertation (ETH No. 15438) "Microhotplate-based chemical sensor systems in CMOS technology".
2005 - Prix du Jeune Entrepreneur de la Section Suisse des Conseillers du Commerce Extérieur de la France (CHF 20'000)
external page Prix du Jeune Entrepreneur to O. Frey for Diploma thesis "Microfluidic Chip for Polymerase Chain Reaction". ETH Life Article
2005 - Best Young Scientist Presentation Award at ESSCIRC/ESSDERC, Grenoble, France
Award to F. Heer for presentation "CMOS micro-electrode array for bidirectional interaction with neuronal networks".