Seeman Student Travel Awards at FNANO 2026
Samia Bakhtawar, University of Surrey, UKNed Seeman showed that DNA can serve not only as the molecule of life but also as a programmable material that directs how matter [...]
FNANO Prizes
2026 Nadrian C. Seeman Nanoscience Prize – Prof. Wendell A. Lim
Dr. Wendell Lim is one of the pioneers of synthetic biology and cellular engineering. His research combines a deep understanding of nanoscale biomolecular mechanisms with the [...]
2026 Robert Dirks Molecular Programming Prize – Dr. Iris Seitz
The 2026 Robert Dirks Molecular Programming Prize was awarded to Dr. Iris Seitz for her work on nucleic acid origami for capsid templating, enzyme modulation, and [...]
2025 Robert Dirks Molecular Programming Prize – Dr. Constantine Evans
The 2025 Robert Dirks Molecular Programming Prize was awarded to Dr. Constantine Evans for his work on pattern recognition via nucleation kinetics of multifarious [...]
FNANO 2025 Excellent Posters and Presentations
Xin Luo, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyKyounghwa Jeon, Seoul National UniversityVidya Singh, New York UniversityKristina Trifonova, University of [...]
Seeman Student Travel Awards at FNANO 2025
Emily Helm, Johns Hopkins University, USAInspired by M. C. Escher’s woodcut Depth, where seemingly infinite fish float in a crystalline formation, Ned Seeman envisioned a [...]
2025 Nadrian C. Seeman Nanoscience Prize – Prof. Chad A. Mirkin
Chad A. Mirkin is the Director of the International Institute for Nanotechnology and the George B. Rathmann Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern University. He is known for [...]
FNANO24 Excellent Student or Postdoc Presentations
Eason Cao, Yale UniversityJonathan Berengut, University of New South WalesLiangxiao Chen, Arizona State UniversityChufan Yang, New York UniversityJulie Finkel, National [...]
2024 Robert Dirks Molecular Programming Prize – Dr. Fan Hong
The 2024 Robert Dirks Molecular Programming Prize was awarded to Dr. Fan Hong for his work on simulation-based engineering of nuanced regulation and imaging concepts. Fan [...]
2024 Nadrian C. Seeman Nanoscience Prize – Prof. David Baker
David Baker is the director of the Institute for Protein Design, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, a professor of biochemistry, and an adjunct professor of [...]