Spark Award 2020

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The winners Dr Matthew Aronoff and Professor Helma Wennemers with ETH Vice-President Detlef Günther at the online presentation of the award.

The winning technology: Chemical tools for fibrosis and tumour imaging
In fibrotic diseases or cancerous tumours, an uncontrolled amount of tissue often forms. This process involves the enzyme LOX, which initiates the cross-??linking of collagen proteins into tissue. Matthew Aronoff and Helma Wennemers are using LOX to make tumour tissue visible. They have developed a fluorescent marker that accumulates where LOX is active, which should allow surgeons to distinguish the tumour from healthy tissue during operations. ETH news

Top 5 inventions

Chemical tools for fibrosis and tumour imaging

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Helma Wennemers, Matthew Aronoff
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Self healing, post curable networks

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Mark Tibbitt, Elia Guzzi
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Evolutionary Trap Vaccines: Inactivated oral vaccines driving bacterial enteropathogens into evolutionary deadends

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Wolf-??Dietrich Hardt, Emma Slack, Médéric Diard
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Snappy: Fast blockchain payments with practical collaterals

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Karl Wüst, Kari Kostiainen, Vasilios Mavroudis, Aritra Dhar, Srdjan Capkun
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Fabricating fully metallic and plasmonic nano-??tips for applications in diverse scanning probe microscopy techniques

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Renato Zenobi, Amit Kumar Sachan
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Top 20 inventions

D-?BAUG

3D printing and robotic fabrication of aerogel-?based composites
Daniel Sanz Pont, Robert Flatt

D-?BIOL

TraPR : Trans-?kingdom, rapid, affordable purification of RISCs
Olivier Voinnet, Thomas Grentzinger, Grégory Schott

D-?BIOL/HEST

Evolutionary Trap Vaccines: Inactivated oral vaccines driving bacterial enteropathogens into evolutionary deadends
Wolf-?Dietrich Hardt, Emma Wetter Slack, Médéric Diard

D-?BSSE

In-?droplet electrophoretic separation of biomolecules
Petra Dittrich, Mario Saucedo Espinosa

A cellular platform for high-?throughput T cell receptor discovery and engineering
Sai Reddy, Rodrigo Vazquez-?Lombardi, Johanna Jung

D-?CHAB

Top-?down vertical inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer
Thomas Vonderach, Bodo Hattendorf, Detlef Günther

Fabricating fully metallic and plasmonic nano-?tips for applications in diverse scanning probe microscopy techniques
Amit Kumar Sachan, Renato Zenobi

Chemical tools for fibrosis and tumour imaging

Helma Wennemers, Matthew Aronoff

D-?HEST

Light Gold: a colloidal approach using latex templates
Raffaele Mezzenga, Leonie van't Haag

D-?INFK

Snappy: Fast blockchain payments with practical collaterals
Srdjan Capkun, Aritra Dhar, Kari Kostiainen, Karl Wüst, Vasilios Mavroudis

D-?ITET

Ambient pressure modulation as a non-?contact technique to induce strain in elastography
Orcun G?ksel, Sabine Kling

D-?MATL

Additive-?free structural coloration of chocolate
Henning Galinski, Etienne Jeoffroy, André Studart, Ralph Spolenak, Patrick Rühs, Kunal Masania, Anita Zingg, Jerome Werder (FHNW), Per Kristiansen (FHNW)

Flexure compound high frequency shear rheometer
Jan Vermant, Bram Schroyen

D-?MAVT

Self healing, post curable networks
Elia Guzzi, Mark Tibbitt

Apparatus and method to take standardized split-?skin grafts
Stephan Fox, Marcel Gort, Sonja Frey (ZHdK), Lino Manuel Heckhorn Ghilardi

Implantable system to measure the cardiac volume through the QRS amplitude

Marianne Schmid Daners, Mirko Meboldt, Seraina Dual, Dominic Jacob, Panagiotis Pergantis

Increasing the tensile load-?carrying capacity of a transradial prosthesis

Andreas Trojan, Alexander Antosch, Hannah Marti, Fabian Schollenberger

Selective gas-?phase etching of graphene for fabrication of porous membranes

Karl-?Philipp Schlichting

Diffractive optical elements
David Norris, Nolan Lassaline, Raphael Brechbühler, Freddy Rabouw

USYS

Surface area determination of particles by mass increase due to adsorption of ozone - SADOA
Franz Friebel, Amewu A. Mensah

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