Recent Faculty Awards: Heller

 

Heller awarded international Fresenius Prize for biosensor technology : Dr. Adam Heller, a chemical engineering research professor, was awarded the 2005 Fresenius Prize from the Society for German Chemists for his "significant services to scientific development and advancement of analytical chemistry." The award will be presented in March in Regensburg, Germany.The society was established in 1949 to unite members of the chemical and molecular sciences.Dr. Heller's current research interests in analytical chemistry include the measurement of glucose in the blood by self-monitoring diabetics. With his son, Ephraim Heller, and former colleague Dr. Ben Feldman, Dr. Heller's team reduced the required volume of blood for testing to 300 nanoliters, less than the amount a mosquito removes in a single bite. This rendered the analysis less painful and more accurate. Though the painless glucose monitor was not based on UT research, prototypes of a miniature sensor implanted under the skin, and replaced every three days by the user were created and tested at UT