David Alsteens receives the Heinrich Emanuel Merck Award

The Heinrich Emanuel Merck Award for Analytical Science 2019 was given to Prof. David Alsteens (UC Louvain) on Sep 3, 2019, in Istanbul. David received the award for his work on investigating receptor-ligand / virus interactions in cell membranes using an approach that combines force-distance curve AFM (FD-AFM) and confocal microscopy. David introduced this approach when he was postdoc in our laboratory.