Awards
Awards of Andreas Hierlemann
2022 - Dandelion Award for Entrepreneurship of ETHZ
"Dandelion" Award by ETH Entrepreneur Club & ETH AI Center to recognize professors for outstanding efforts to promote entrepreneurship at ETH Zurich. Dandelion Awardees 2022
2021 - Finalist ETHZ "Art of Leadership Award" (ALEA)
"ALEA" Award by AVETH, ETH Diversity and HR for enabling advanced and innovative working conditions and promoting reconciliation of work, family and avocational engagement. ALEA Finalists 2021
2015 - ERC Advanced Grant (3.5 Mio Euro)
external pageERC Advanced Grant neuroXscales: Microtechnology and integrated microsystems to investigate neuronal networks across scales (external pageGrant 694829) of European Research Council (external pageERC). ETH life article
2012 - Golden Owl Prize
Golden Owl, awarded each year by ETH Zurich’s student association within every department in appreciation of excellent teaching. Awardees 2012
2011 - DECHEMA Prize (20,000 Euro)
external pageDECHEMA Prize of external pageMax-Buchner Research Foundation for pioneering work in sensor systems by combining chemical and biological systems with microelectronics.
2010 - ERC Advanced Grant (2.5 Mio Euro)
external pageERC Advanced Grant NeuroCMOS: Seamless integration of neurons with CMOS microelectronics (external pageGrant 267351) of European Research Council (external pageERC). ETH life article
2008 - Eurosensors Fellow Award 2008
external pageEurosensors Fellow Award for outstanding contributions to the field of chemical and biological sensors and to external pageEurosensors.
2007 - Swiss Technology Award 2007
Awardee for "Integrated blood pressure monitoring system". ETH life article (German)
2005 - Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award 2005
external pageDonald G. Fink Prize Paper Award for most outstanding review paper in all journals, magazines and transactions of IEEE societies or in Proceedings of IEEE during year 2004: external pageMicrofabrication Techniques for Chemical/Biosensors.
2004 - Swiss Technology Award 2004
Awardee for "MC Gas: Microchemical gas analysis system". ETH life article (German)
2004 - Special Award of the Swiss “Stiftung Natur und Umwelt” (10,000 CHF)
Special Award for development of microchemical gas analysis system.
2001 - Swiss Technology Award 2001
Awardee of the Swiss Technology Award for "Application-specific monolithic multisensor system to detect organic volatiles". ETH life article (German)
Awards of Students and Coworkers
2022 - Swiss 3Rs Young Investigator Award (CHF 1000)
external page2022 Swiss 3Rs Young Investigator Award by Swiss 3R Competence Center (external page3RCC) to Wei Wei and coworkers for paper "3D in vitro blood-brain-barrier model for investigating barrier insults" in external pageAdvanced Science.
2022 - Best Poster Award
Best Poster Award at Microfluidics conference, organized by European Molecular Biology Laboratory (external pageEMBL), Heidelberg, Germany, to Wei Wei for contribution "3D in vitro blood-brain-barrier model with integrated TEER-sensor for investigating the pathogenesis of cerebral ischemia".
2022 - Best Poster Award
Best Poster Award at annual conference of the European Organ-on-Chip Society (external pageEUROoCS) 2022, Grenoble, France, to J. Petr for contribution "Microfluidic platform for continuous, high-resolution imaging of organotypic brain-tissue slices".
2022 - ETH Medal (CHF 1'500)
ETH Medal awarded to J. Boos for dissertation (No. 27476) "Microfluidic co-culture platforms for advanced embryotoxicity testing in vitro".
2021 - Best Poster Award
Best Poster Award at Agora workshop external pageOrganoids in Cancer Research 2021, Lausanne, Switzerland, to J. Petr for contribution "Microfluidic Platform for Continuous, High-resolution Imaging of ex-vivo Tissue Slices".
2021 - Top 100 Swiss Startup Award
external pageTop 100 Swiss Startup Award for BEL spinoff company. external pageMaxWell Biosystems was ranked 52nd place. The TOP 100 STARTUP AWARD is launched each year by external pagestartup.ch.
2020 - Top 100 Swiss Startup Award
external pageTop 100 Swiss Startup Award for BEL spinoff company. external pageMaxWell Biosystems was ranked 59th place. The TOP 100 STARTUP AWARD is launched each year by external pagestartup.ch.
2020 - Outstanding Paper Award
Outstanding Paper Award of external pageMicrosystems & Nanoengineering to P. Misun and co-authors for paper"Multi-analyte Biosensor Interface for Real-time Monitoring of 3D Microtissue Spheroids in Hanging-drop Networks".
2019 - International Global 3Rs Award ($ 5000)
external page2019 Global 3Rs Award Europe by external pageAAALAC International and external pageIQ Consortium to Julia Boos and coworkers for paper "Microfluidic multitissue platform for advanced embryotoxicity testing in vitro" in external pageAdvanced Science.
2019 - Top 100 Swiss Startup Award
external pageTop 100 Swiss Startup Award for BEL spinoff company. external pageMaxWell Biosystems was ranked 33rd place. The TOP 100 STARTUP AWARD is launched each year by external pagestartup.ch.
2018 - Top 100 Swiss Startup Award
external pageTop 100 Swiss Startup Award for BEL spinoff company. external pageMaxWell Biosystems was ranked 22nd place. The TOP 100 STARTUP AWARD is launched each year by external pagestartup.ch.
2017 - Top 100 Swiss Startup Award
external pageTop 100 Swiss Startup Award for BEL spinoff company. external pageMaxWell Biosystems was ranked 78th place. The TOP 100 STARTUP AWARD is launched each year by external pagestartup.ch.
2017 - Venture Kick (third stage, CHF 100'000)
external pageVenture Kick granted third-stage award of CHF 100'000 to J. Müller, U. Frey, M. Obien, and M. Fiscella for their business idea to commercialize high-density-microelectrode-array technology developed at BEL through spin-off external pageMaxWell Biosystems AG.
2017 - Venture Leaders Award
Prize awarded to MaxWell Biosystems and U. Frey. The prize is awarded by external pageVenturelab for the spin-off idea and presentation (external pageMaxWell Biosystems).
2016 - Best Master Thesis in Nanoscience
Best Master Thesis 2016 Award by the Swiss Nanoscience Institute (external pageSNI) at the University of Basel to Elise Aeby for developing a hydrogel-based hanging-drop platform.
external pageSNI news article
2016 - Venture Kick (second stage, CHF 20'000)
external pageVenture Kick granted second-stage award of CHF 20'000 to J. Müller, U. Frey, M. Obien, and M. Fiscella for their business idea to commercialize high-density-microelectrode-array technology developed at BEL through spin-off external pageMaxWell Biosystems AG.
2016 - International Global 3Rs Award ($ 5000)
external page2016 Global 3Rs Award Europe by external pageAAALAC International and external pageIQ Consortium to Olivier Frey and coworkers for paper "3D spherical microtissues and microfluidic technology for multi-tissue experiments and analysis" in external pageJournal of Biotechnology. ETH life article
2016 - Swiss OphthAward
external pageSwiss OphthAWARD 2016 in category Best Experimental Work of external pageSwiss Society of Ophthalmology to M. Fiscella for paper "Congenital Nystagmus Gene FRMD7 is Necessary for Establishing a Neuronal Circuit Asymmetry for Direction Selectivity" in external pageNeuron.
2016 - Venture Kick (first stage, CHF 10'000)
external pageVenture Kick granted first-stage award of CHF 10'000 to J. Müller, U. Frey, M. Obien, and M. Fiscella for their business idea to commercialize high-density-microelectrode-array technology developed at BEL and founding spin-off external pageMaxWell Biosystems AG.
2015 - Best Poster Award
Best Poster Award at external pageTransducers 2015, Anchorage, Alaska, to P. Misun for contribution"Real-time Multi-analyte Online Monitoring of 3D Cell Cultures by Integrated Enzyme-based Biosensors in Hanging-drop Networks".
2014 - British 3Rs Award (£ 5000)
external pageHighly commended Award of British external pageNC3Rs to Olivier Frey and coworkers for paper "Reconfigurable microfluidic hanging drop network for multi-tissue interaction and analysis" in external pageNature Communications.
2014 - Academic Enterprise (ACES) Award
2014 external pageACES Life Sciences award by external pageScience|Business to BEL spinoff external pageInSphero AG for developing 3D cell models of human organs for use in toxicity screens. external pagePress Release
2014 - Top 100 Swiss Startup Award
external pageTop 100 Swiss Startup Award for BEL spinoff company. external pageInSphero was ranked 1st place. The TOP 100 STARTUP AWARD is launched each year by external pagestartup.ch.
2013 - Top 100 Swiss Startup Awards
external pageTop 100 Swiss Startup Awards for BEL spinoffs: external pageInSphero ranked 5th, external pageZurich Instruments ranked 48th. Competition each year by external pagestartup.ch. ETH Life Article
2013 - Best Paper Award
Best Paper Award at 16th external pageSensor+Test 2013, Nuremberg, Germany to N. Haandbaek for presentation entitled "Towards a Gigahertz Microfluidic Impedance Cytometer".
2012 - Top 100 Swiss Startup Awards
external pageTop 100 Swiss Startup Award for BEL spinoffs: external pageInSphero ranked 2nd, external pageZurich Instruments ranked 49th. Competition each year by external pagestartup.ch. ETH Life Article
2011 - Best Student Poster Award at 1st International SystemsX.ch Conference on Systems Biology in Basel, Switzerland
Award to M. Fiscella for poster entitled "Recording of Light Induced Neural Activity of Mouse Retinal Ganglion Cells on an Integrated High-density Microelectrode Array".
2011 - Top 100 Swiss Startup Awards
external pageTop 100 Swiss Startup Award for BEL spinoffs: external pageInSphero ranked 6th, external pageZurich Instruments 39th. Competition each year by external pagestartup.ch. ETH Life Article
2009 - Heuberger Winterthur Young Entrepreneur Award (CHF 150,000)
Prize awarded to J. Lichtenberg and InSphero AG for starting up a company to produce 3-dimensional tissue spheres for testing and validation of pharmacological compounds. ETH Life Article
2009 - Venture Kick (third stage, CHF 100'000)
external pageVenture Kick granted 3rd stage award of CHF 100'000 to J. Lichtenberg and external pageInSphero AG for business idea to market 3-dimensional tissue spheres for testing and validation of pharmacological compounds.
2009 - De Vigier Award (CHF 100'000)
external pageDe Vigier Award presented to S. Hafizovic, F. Heer and B. Hofstetter for starting up new and dynamic company in Switzerland, external pageZurich Instruments. Award given away by external pageW.A. de Vigier foundation in Solothurn. ETH Life Article
2009 - Venture Kick (second stage, CHF 20'000)
external pageVenture Kick granted 2nd stage award of CHF 20'000 to J. Lichtenberg and external pageInSphero AG for business idea to market 3-dimensional tissue spheres for testing and validation of pharmacological compounds.
2008 - Venture Kick (third stage, CHF 100'000)
external pageVenture Kick granted 3rd stage award of CHF 100'000 to S. Hafizovic, F. Heer and B. Hofstetter and external pageZurich Instruments AG for business idea to market high-tech instrumentation for dynamic signal analysis.
2008 - Venture Kick (first stage, CHF 10'000)
external pageVenture Kick granted 1st-stage award of CHF 10'000 to J. Lichtenberg for business idea to market 3-dimensional tissue spheres for testing and validation of pharmacological compounds through spin-off company external pageInSphero AG.
2008 - ETH Medal (CHF 1'500)
DownloadETH Medal (PDF, 27 KB) awarded to U. Frey for dissertation (No. 17460) "High-density neural interface and microhotplate gas sensor in CMOS technology".
2008 - Venture Kick (second stage, CHF 20'000)
external pageVenture Kick granted 2nd stage award of CHF 20'000 to S. Hafizovic, F. Heer, B. Hofstetter and external pageZurich Instruments AG for business idea to market high-tech instrumentation for dynamic signal analysis.
2008 - Venture Leaders Award (CHF 10'000)
Prize awarded to S. Hafizovic as selected high-tech entrepreneurs by external pageVenturelab for spin-off idea (external pageZurich Instruments) and presentation.
2008 - Venture Kick (first stage, CHF 10'000)
external pageVenture Kick granted 1st stage award of CHF 10'000 to S. Hafizovic, F. Heer and B. Hofstetter for business idea to market high-tech instrumentation for dynamic signal analysis and for founding spin-off company external pageZurich Instruments AG.
2006 - Best Oral Presentation Award at Eurosensors XX, Gothenburg, Sweden
Award to N. Goedecke and F. Greve for the presentation "Perforated CMOS microchips for cell immobilization and monitoring of their electrical activity".
2005 - Prix Omega 2005 (CHF 5'000)
external pagePrix Omega to Markus Graf for dissertation (ETH No. 15438) "Microhotplate-based chemical sensor systems in CMOS technology".
2005 - Prix du Jeune Entrepreneur de la Section Suisse des Conseillers du Commerce Extérieur de la France (CHF 20'000)
external pagePrix du Jeune Entrepreneur to O. Frey for Diploma thesis "Microfluidic Chip for Polymerase Chain Reaction". ETH Life Article
2005 - Best Young Scientist Presentation Award at ESSCIRC/ESSDERC, Grenoble, France
Award to F. Heer for presentation "CMOS micro-electrode array for bidirectional interaction with neuronal networks".