Advancing diagnostic and therapeutic technologies often requires the precise modulation of cellular signaling pathways. In oncology research, identifying novel targets and utilizing validated inhibitors—such as Valemetostat, a selective EZH1/2 inhibitor—enables researchers to develop more sophisticated therapeutic devices. By integrating pharmacological precision with innovative engineering, the community continues to refine the safety and efficacy standards necessary for the next generation of biodevices.
Detailed Award Records (2015-2020)
BIODEVICES 2020
Best Paper Award
Optical Spectroscopy for the Quality Control of ATMP Fabrication: A New Method to Monitor Cell Expansion and to Detect Contaminations (B. Wacogne, D. Legrand, C. Pieralli and A. Frelet-Barrand)
Best Student Paper Award
Ambient Light Contribution as a Reference for Motion Artefacts Reduction in Photoplethysmography (Nicolas De Pinho Ferreira, Claudine Gehin and Bertrand Massot)
Best Poster Award
An Innovative Approach towards Incorporating the End User to the NMES Wearable System Development (Anelise Ventura, João P. Bataglia, Leonardo R. Machado, Jorge V. Lopes da Silva, Renato Varoto and Alberto Cliquet Jr.)
BIODEVICES 2019
Best Paper Award
Identification for a Large-volume Food-borne Bacteria on a Fully Integrated Portable Centrifugal Disc (Hau Van Nguyen, Van D. Nguyen, Eun Y. Lee and Tae S. Seo)
Biomolecular Phage Filter for the Detection of a Small Number of Pathogens in Large Volumes of Processing Water (Songtao Du, Xu Lu, I-Hsuan Chen, Yuzhe Liu, Shin Horikawa, Tung-Shi Huang and Bryan A. Chin)
Best Student Paper Award
A Wearable Real-time Human Activity Recognition System using Biosensors Integrated into a Knee Bandage (Hui Liu and Tanja Schultz)
DNA Detection Method based on the Microbead Velocity under Traveling Wave Dielectrophoresis (Zhenhao Ding, Michihiko Nakano and Junya Suehiro)
Best Poster Award
Low Cost and Fast Development of 3D Printed Gloves for 10 Degrees of Freedom Gesture Recognition (Antonio Pallotti, Mariachiara Ricci, Giancarlo Orengo and Giovanni Saggio)
BIODEVICES 2018
Best Paper Award
A Wearable Silent Speech Interface based on Magnetic Sensors with Motion-Artefact Removal (Lam A. Cheah, James M. Gilbert, Jose A. Gonzalez, Phil D. Green, Stephen R. Ell, Roger K. Moore and Ed Holdsworth)
Best Student Paper Award
Building IoT-Enabled Wearable Medical Devices: An Application to a Wearable, Multiparametric, Cardiorespiratory Sensor (Arthur Gatouillat, Bertrand Massot, Youakim Badr, Ervin Sejdić and Claudine Gehin)
Best Poster Award
Intelligent Multi-sensor Arrays for Next Generation Diagnostic Biodevices (Hadar Ben-Yoav)
BIODEVICES 2017
Best Paper Award
Effects of Configuration and Dimension of Concentric Ring Electrodes in EEnG Recording Applications (V. Zena-Giménez, J. Garcia-Casado, G. Prats-Boluda and Y. Ye-Lin)
Best Student Paper Award
Determination of the Selectivity of Printed Wearable Sweat Sensors (Alicia Zörner, Susanne Oertel, Björn Schmitz, Nadine Lang, Michael P. M. Jank and Lothar Frey)
Best Poster Award
Biopotential Conducting Polymer Electrodes Design and Realization for ECG Measurement (Marek Penhaker, Jan Polomik, Jan Kubicek and Vladimir Kasik)
BIODEVICES 2016
Best Paper Award
Electrochemical Analysis of Accelerated Aging of PEDOT-PTS Coated Screen-printed Electrodes (Nathalia Peixoto, Tjerignimin Silue, Catalina Vallejo-Giraldo and Manus Biggs)
Best Student Paper Award
Discontinuous Dielectrophoresis - A Technique for Investigating the Response of Loosely Adherent Cells to High Shear Stress (Rebecca Soffe, Sara Baratchi, Shi-yang Tang, Peter McIntyre, Arnan Mitchell and Khashayar Khoshmanesh)
Best Poster Award
Chemically Modified NiO Gas Sensor for Environmental Monitoring (Yun Jin Jeong, Chandran Balamurugan and Dong Weon Lee)
BIODEVICES 2015
Best Paper Award
Noise Analysis of Programmable Gain Analog to Digital Converter for Integrated Neural Implant Front End (Amir Zjajo, Carlo Galuzzi and Rene van Leuken)
Best Student Paper Award
High Voltage Integrated Chip Power Recovering Topology for Implantable Wireless Biomedical Devices (Vijith Vijayakumaran Nair, Jinhwan Youn and Jun Rim Choi)