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'AMA Innovation Award 2016' for two biomedical projects
This year's 'AMA Innovation Award 2016' goes equally to two winners - both from the field of biomedicine. The "Magnetic flow cytometry" project was just as convincing as the "Nerves of glass - fiber-optic 3D positioning of cardiac catheters".
The 'AMA Innovation Award' has been one of the most prestigious prizes in sensor and measurement technology for years and is awarded annually by the AMA Association.
© AMA"This year, 41 development teams competed for the AMA Innovation Award," explains jury chairman Professor Andreas Schütze from Saarland University. "The two winning projects, Magnetic Flow Cytometry and Nerves of Glass, were a nose ahead of the other nominees with their scientifically outstanding solutions and recognizable practical benefits. Overall, however, the winner this year was sensor technology in biomedical engineering. Surprisingly, all five nominated teams are developing innovative solutions for medical applications based on very different principles of sensor and measurement technology."
The winners:
Winning team "Magnetic Flow Cytrometry (MRCyte)" - from left to right: Peter Krause (AMA), Oliver Maiwald, Johan Jansen (Sencio), Dr. Oliver Hayden, Mathias Reisbeck, Lukas Richter (Siemens Healthcare), Dr. Ronald Lehndorff (Sensitec), Ignas van Dommelen (Sencio) Prof. Dr. Andreas Schütze (Jury/University of Saarland)
© AMA"Magnetic flow cytometry " - by Dr. Oliver Hayden, Lukas Richter, Michael Helou, Mathias Reisbeck (Siemens Healthcare), Ronald Lehndorff (Sensitec), Ignaz van Domelein (Sencio), Mario Nitzsche (M2 Automation).
This project could represent a real breakthrough in the field of hospital emergency admissions. While it was previously very time-consuming to create a precise cell analysis from a blood sample, this could now be done in a very short time with the new method: Using specific magnetic labeling with a purely magnetic workflow in a disposable cartridge, the new development enables the detection of target cell functions directly in the patient's blood without sample preparation.
This is achieved by magnetic time-of-flight measurement of the signal close to the patient in a tabletop device within a few minutes.
The high measurement accuracy enables rapid therapy decisions to be made for unstable cellular biomarkers, which previously did not allow routine use with other methods due to high investment costs and the specialist knowledge required.
The method is currently being tested in practice at two hospitals in Erlangen and Mainz.
"Nerves made of glass " - by Professor Dr. Wolfgang Schade, Dr. Martin Angelmahr (Fraunhofer HHI, Goslar), Christian Waltermann, Anna Lena Baumann (Photonics Incubator/ Fraunhofer HHI) and Philip Gühlke (Photonics Incubator, Göttingen).
The second prize-winning innovation is the "nerves made of glass". This is a multifunctional fiber-optic sensor platform for 3D shape detection, with which the scientists have achieved a breakthrough in the field of 3D positioning of cardiac catheters.
As a precise navigation and tracking system, it could play an important role in minimally invasive radiology and surgery in the future: Three-dimensional shape and movement detection using fiber optic sensor technology allows repositioning accuracy of cardiac catheters <1 mm. This makes a decisive contribution to improving success and reducing the time required for surgery.
In addition to the positioning of cardiac catheters, many other applications are conceivable - and not just in medical technology. This technology could also be of interest to industry. For example, integrated pressure sensors could be used to give a robot "feeling" in its gripping hand so that it could even carefully grasp a raw egg without crushing it.
More generally, a "cyber glove" that recognizes and visualizes the movements of each individual finger could be used to control and optimize work processes.
Special 'Young Company' award for 4D microscope camera
The special prize was awarded to the development team led by Dr. Rachel Wang Ruiqi (d'Optron Pte Ltd., Nanyang Technological University) for the development of the "d'Bioimager", a real 4D microscope camera (3D imaging in real time), especially for biomedical applications.
The 'Young Company' from Singapore received a free trade fair appearance at the SENSOR+TEST 2016 as a special prize.
Brochure with all submissions 2016
All submissions are summarized with a brief description in the brochure "AMA Innovation Award 2016 - The Applicants". It can be downloaded free of charge from the AMA Association's website.
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