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The Pioneer NanoBioTechnology Conference

Dr. Alain Donzel and Prof. Philippe Renaud launched the first NanoBioTech-Montreux conference in 1997. At that time, this was the first conference, worldwide, that focused on the application of micro and nanotechnologies to challenges in the Life Sciences. The conference takes place yearly around November in the beautiful setting of Montreux. Lasting 2½ days, it consists of single-track oral sessions, pitch-like oral presentations and poster sessions.

The goal was to create a unique forum for discussing the latest developments and perspectives at the interface between nanotechnology, the life sciences and medicine. To promote discussion, the format of the conference has since the beginning been intentionally kept compact, with about 120 participants. Over the years, the conference has earned the reputation as the best small conference in this field.

A showcase for the very best invited speakers

NanoBioTech-Montreux is a human-scale focused conference at the frontiers of Micro- and Nano- technologies, with an emphasis on Biological, Chemical and Medical applications. The format includes plenary talks from invited speakers of international renown who give lectures on key developments in the field, together with a variety of short oral presentations of new research. Over the past years, the conference has attracted many of the best-known researchers in the field of nanobiotechnology who gave keynote or invited lectures (a list of names is provided in the annex). The conference is well known as an excellent place for discussing research trends with major players in the field.

The conference room during a presentation

Keynote speaker: Prof. Claire Wilhelm, CNRS and

University of Paris, FR

A tradition for promoting young researchers

NanoBioTech-Montreux has a long tradition for the promotion of the work of early career researchers, providing an excellent opportunity to meet World experts in BioMEMS and

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NanoBioTechnologies. Because of the compact nature of the conference and the focused approach, the PhD students have the opportunity to meet these experts and discuss their research with them. Student feedback has been very positive; for many of them this is the first time talking in front of international audience. The compact and friendly conference has also always provided an excellent environment for students to establish new contacts and broader their opportunity to get postdoc positions in new labs. Every year, the conference awards three poster prizes that recognise the most innovative research projects.

Dynamic poster session

The poster sessions are very important in this conference. The 2 minutes, pitch-like introductory oral presentations have been extremely successful and highly appreciated by all participants. Unlike many other conferences, these make for appealing sessions that are regularly fully attended.

Discussions during the poster session

Prof. Philippe Renaud giving Promising Research

Award to Dariush Ashtiani, Monash Uni., AU

An independent, non-profit organization

It is a non-profit event which is organized under the responsibility of the NanoBioTech Association, a dedicated team created specifically to cater for the needs of the conference. As a not for profit organization the conference runs with minimal costs, allocating all revenues from registrations and sponsoring to the meeting. In order to encourage young researchers to attend, a special discount rate is given to PhD students.

The participants of the 2019 conference, taken on the Hotel restaurant terrace

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List of past Keynote and main Invited speakers 2019 Oscar Ces, Imperial College London, UK Hang Lu, GeorgiaTech, USA Paolo Netti, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, IT Claire Wilhelm, CNRS and University of Paris, FR Esther Amstad, EPFL, CH Radha Boya, University of Manchester, UK Christopher Dunsby, Imperial College London, UK Ali Koşar, Sabanci University, TR Yannick Rondelez, ESPCI Paris, FR 2018 Tuomas Knowles, Cambridge, UK Mauro Ferrari, Houston Methodist, USA Nicolas Verplanck, CEA-LETI, FR Madhavi Krishnan, Univ. of Oxford, UK Piotr Korczyk, Inst. of Fundamental Technological Research/PAS, PL Morgan Delarue, LAAS/CNRS, Toulouse, FR Govind Kaigala, IBM Research-Zurich, CH David Quéré, ESPCI, Paris, FR Albert van den Berg, MESA+ institute, NL 2017 Shuichi Takayama, Georgia Tech, USA Chaoyong Yang, Xiamen University, China Dermot Diamond, Dublin City Univ., IRL Hywel Morgan, Univ. of Southampton, UK David Juncker, McGill Univ., Montreal, CA Kevin Dorfman, Univ. of Minnesota, USA Andrew de Mello, ETH, Zürich, CH Robert Holyst, IPC PAS, Warsaw, PL Luc Bousse, POC Medical Systems, USA 2016 Christophe Vieu, INSA, LAAS-CNRS, F Wouter van der Wijngaart, KTH, SE Margarita Staykova, Durham Univ., UK Nathalie Picollet D’hahan, CEA Grenoble, F Walter Reisner, McGill University, CA Jurriaan Huskens, Twente University, NL Andrew de Mello, ETH, Zürich, CH Martin Fischlechner, Southampton, UK Huidan Zhang, Harvard Univ., USA 2015 David Gracias, John Hopkins Univ., USA Piotr Garstecki, Polish Acad ., Warsaw, PL Stéphanie Lacour, EPFL, Lausanne, CH Christelle Prinz, Lund University, SE Sidi Bencherif, Harvard University, USA Thomas Pfohl, Basel University, CH Jenny Tillotson, Cambridge Univ., UK 2014 Aydogan Ozcan, UCLA, USA Hendrik Dietz, TU Munich, Germany Leon Terstrappen, Twente Univ., NL Nikolaj Gadegaard, Univ. Glasgow, UK Ola Soderberg, Uppsala Univ., Sweden Mark Wallace, Oxford Univ., UK Aart van Apeldoorn, Twente Univ., NL 2013 Achilef Kapanidis, Oxford Univ., UK Dino Di Carlo, UCLA, USA Yani Huang, Peking Univ., China Dieter Braun, Munich Univ., Germany Catherine Klappertich, Boston Univ., USA Jeroen Cornelissen, Twente Univ., Netherlands Bjorn Onfelt, KTH, Sweden Florian Hollfelder, Cambridge Univ., UK

2012 Sunghoon Kwon, KAIST, Korea David Leigh, Univ. Edimburg, UK Aaron Wheeler, Uni. Toronto, Canada Ulrich Bockelmann, ESPCI, Paris, France Emmanuel Delamarche, IBM Zürich, CH Jan Behrens, Uni. Freiburg, Germany Valérie Taly, CNRS, Paris, France 2011 Patrick Doyle, MIT, USA Nancy Allbritton, North Carolina, USA Marc Madou, UC Irvine, USA Janos Vörös, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Eric Leclerc, Uni Compiègne, France Charles Baroud, Polytechnique, Paris, F Fredrik Höök, Chalmers Univ., Sweden 2010 Manu Prakash, Harvard University, USA Mehmet Fatih Yanik, MIT, USA Andrew de Mello, Imp. College, UK Wolfgang Parak, Univ. of Marburg, Germany Shoji Takeuchi, University of Tokyo, Japan Chris Backhouse, Univ. of Alberta, Canada Tom Soh, UC, Santa Barbara, USA Jonas Tegenfeldt, Lund University, Sweden Owe Orwar, Chalmers University, Sweden Donald Leo, Virginia Tech, USA 2009 Mehmet Toner, Harvard University, USA Yoshinobu Baba, Nagoya University, Japan Johan Elf, Uppsala University, Sweden Albert Folch, Univ. of Washington, USA Thomas Laurell, Lund University, Sweden David Beebe, Univ. of Wisconsin, USA Minoru Seki, Chiba University, Japan * Stefan Hell, MPI Göttingen, Germany Jochen Guck, University of Cambridge, UK Vincent Studer, ESPCI, Paris, France Andreas Manz, KIST EU, Saarbrücken, DE 2008 Hyuck Yoo, Seoul National Univ., Korea Mingming Wu, Cornell University, USA Jörg Enderlein, Uni. Göttingen, Germany Gert Desmet, Free Univ of Brussel, Belgium Mathis Riehle, Univ. Of Glasgow, UK Joel Voldman, MIT, Cambridge, USA Viola Vogel, ETHZ, Zürich, Switzerland Jean-Louis Viovy, Institut Curie, Paris, France Russom Aman, Harvard University, USA Jan Eijkel, MESA+ Research Institute, Netherland 2007 Luke Lee, UC Berkeley, USA Günter Fuhr, Fraunhofer IBMT, Germany Robert Austin, Princeton University, USA Thomas LaBean, Duke Univ, NC, USA Darryl Bornhop, Vanderbilt Univ, USA Alexandre Jesacher, Univ. Innsbruck, A Jesper Glückstad, DTU, Denmark Matthew Holden, Univ. of Oxford, UK 2006 Demetri Psaltis, Caltech, USA Ajdari Armand, ESPCI, Paris, France Staffan Nilsson, Lund University, Sweden Ceriotti Laura, EC-JRC-IHCP, Ispra, Italy Okada Hiroki, Nagoya University, Japan Junghoon Lee, Seoul National Uni. Korea Hywel Morgan, Univ of Southampton, UK

2005 Hans Hertz, KTH, Sweden Michel Bornens, Inst Curie, Paris, F Jean-Louis Viovy, Inst Curie, Paris, F Carlo Montemagno, UCLA, USA Patrick Tabeling, ESPCI, Paris, France Wilhelm Ansorge, EMBL, Heidelberg, DE Ulrich Zimmerman, Uni Würtzburg, DE Sunita Pennathur, Stanford Univ., USA 2004 Paul Watts, Univ. Hull, UK Daniel Jay, Tufts Univ., Boston, USA Josep Samitier, Barcelona Univ., ES Lars Montelius, Univ. Lund, Sweden Steve Haswell, Univ. Hull, UK Hans Hertz, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden Diane Hoffman-Kim, Brown Univ, USA 2002 Sylvia Daunert, Univ. Kentucky, USA * Jean-Marie Lehn, College de France, France Helene Anderssonn, KTH, Sweden Gunther Fuhr, IBMT, Berlin, Germany Petra Dittrich, MPI Göttingen, Germany Wolfgan Ehrfled, Mainz, Germany Sabeth Verpoorte, IMT, Switzerland 2001 Albert van den Berg, Twente Uni, NL Rudolf Rigler, KTH, Sweden Stefanie Wong, Glaxo, UK Goran Stemme, KTH, Sweden Thomas Schalkhammer, Univ. Wien, A Kenji Yasuda, Uni Tokyo, Japan Jed Harrison, Univ. Alberta, Canada Daniel Branton, Harward, Boston, USA 2000 Michael Heller, Nanogen, USA Andrew Garman, Astra Zeneca, UK Masao Washizu, Kyoto Univ., Japan Andrea Chow, Caliper, USA Menno Prins, Philips Research, NL Andrew de Mello, Imp College, UK Takatoki Yamamoto, Univ. Tokyo, Japan James Gimzewski, IBM Zurich, CH 1999 Carlos Mastrangelo, Uni Michigan, USA Don Arnold, Sandia Labs, USA Hubert Girault, EPFL, Switzerland Marty Afromomitz, Uni Washington, USA 1998 Steve Haswell, Uni. Hull, UK Rolfe Anderson, Affymetrix, USA Martin Koop, Imp. College London, UK Aaron Paulus, Aclara Biosciences, USA S. Neumann, Merk, Germany S. H. DeWitt, Orchid Biocomputer, USA 1997 C. D. Bevan, Glaxo Welcome, UK W. Burdach, Novartis , Switzerland Stanley Abramowitz, NIST, USA T. Hawkins, Whitebread Inst., UK Fred Regnier, Purdue Univ., USA *) Nobel prize