Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that Bioengineering will be granting the Travel Award to two junior scientists. The applications will be assessed by an Evaluation Committee consisting of senior scholars from the Bioengineering Editorial Board.

This award provides financial support for the winners to attend an international conference in the field of the science and technology of bioengineering to be held in 2024, in order to hold a presentation, present a poster, or both.

Candidate Requirements:
– Postdoctoral fellows or PhD students.
– Plans to attend an international conference in 2024 (oral presentation or poster).

Required Application Documents:
– Information of the conference the applicant is planning to attend and the abstract that will be submitted.
– Curriculum vitae and list of publications.
– Justification letter describing the focus of the research (max. 800 words).
– Letter of recommendation from the supervisor, research director, or department head, which also confirms the applicant’s status as a postdoctoral fellow/PhD student.

Two awardees will each be awarded CHF 500 and a certificate.

Please submit your applications for the Bioengineering 2024 Travel Award online by 30 November 2023. Prizes will be awarded at the end of March 2024 and announced on the Bioengineering website.

Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Anthony Guiseppi-Elie, we wish to acknowledge our reviewers who so generously offer their time to review the papers submitted to Bioengineering by presenting an award to the reviewers who have demonstrated their dedication, professionalism, and timeliness in reviewing manuscripts for Bioengineering.

What are the pre-requisites to be eligible for this award?
– All of the reviewers for Bioengineering in 2023 will be automatically included.

Selection Criteria:
– Number of review reports;
– The quality and timeliness of review reports.

What will the winners receive?
There will be two winners this year, and each will receive the following:
– CHF 500;
– An opportunity to publish a paper free of charge in 2024 after peer review;
– A certificate.

When will the winner be announced?
– The winners will be announced in March 2024 on the journal website.

How can I make myself eligible?
– If you have not yet reviewed papers for Bioengineering but would like to do so, you can register as a reviewer at the following link: https://susy.mdpi.com/volunteer/profile/edit.

Kind regards,
Bioengineering Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the “Bioengineering 2022 Best Paper Award” for research articles published in Bioengineering in 2022. Two research articles will receive an award each. The papers will be selected after a thorough evaluation by the journal Award Committee led by the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Anthony Guiseppi-Elie.

Eligibility for the Award:
– Papers published in Bioengineering in 2022;
– Open to all career levels;
– Both regular and Special Issue submissions will be considered.

Selection Criteria:
The papers will be selected by the journal Award Committee according to the following criteria:
– Scientific merit and broad impact;
– Originality of the research objectives and/or the ideas presented;
– Creativity of the study design or uniqueness of the approaches and concepts;
– Clarity of presentation;
– Citations and downloads.

The Prize:
– Two research article awards: CHF 500 and a chance to publish a paper free of charge in Bioengineering in 2023 after peer review.
– Each winner will also receive a certificate.

The winners will be announced on the journal website in March 2024.

Kind regards,
Bioengineering Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

As the Associate Editor of Bioengineering, I am pleased to announce the winner of the Bioengineering 2023 Travel Award. The award has been granted to Dr. Jue Deng, a post-doctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.

As an awardee, he will receive an honorarium of CHF 800 and an electronic certificate.

With so many high-quality applicants, the evaluation process and final decision were challenging. We would like to thank all the applicants for submitting their diverse and fascinating range of research topics. On behalf of the assessment committee, I congratulate the winners on their accomplishments.

Associate Editor, Dr. Gary Chinga Carrasco, on behalf of the Bioengineering 2023 Travel Award Evaluation Committee

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Bioengineering 2022 Outstanding Reviewer Award. The Bioengineering Editorial Board and Editorial Team would like to gratefully acknowledge the time and energy dedicated by reviewers in checking the manuscripts submitted to Bioengineering. It is due to their efforts that the high quality of the journal and quick turnaround are maintained.

Dr. Pritiprasanna Maity
Department of Regenerative Medicine and Cell Biology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA
Research Interests: tissue engineering; regenerative medicine; organoid model; CRC

Dr. Miusi Shi
Department of Bioengineering, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA
Research Interests: bioengineering; biomaterials; tissue regeneration; drug delivery; nanoparticles; bone regeneration; dental implants

The Prize for Each Winner:
– CHF 500;
– An opportunity to publish a paper free of charge in Bioengineering in 2023 after peer review;
– A certificate.

Kind regards,
Bioengineering Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Bioengineering 2021 Best Paper Award. All papers published in 2021 in Bioengineering were considered for the award. After a thorough evaluation of the originality and significance of the papers, citations, and downloads, two winners were selected.

Two Articles:
Collagen in Wound Healing
By Shomita S. Mathew-Steiner, Sashwati Roy and Chandan K. Sen
Bioengineering 2021, 8(5), 63; doi:10.3390/bioengineering8050063

3D Printing of Thermoresponsive Hydrogel Laden with an Antimicrobial Agent towards Wound Healing Applications
By Martyna Nizioł, Justyna Paleczny, Adam Junka, Amin Shavandi, Anna Dawiec-Liśniewska and Daria Podstawczyk
Bioengineering 2021, 8(6), 79; doi:10.3390/bioengineering8060079

Each winner will receive CHF 500 and a chance to publish a paper in Bioengineering in 2023 after peer review.

Please join us in congratulating the winners of the Bioengineering 2021 Best Paper Award. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all of our authors for your continued support of Bioengineering.

Kind regards,
Bioengineering Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of the Editorial Board of Bioengineering, the many reviewers, contributing authors, and support staff, I am pleased to announce that the 2020 Bioengineering Travel Award is given to Mr. Punn Augsornworawat, a doctoral student in the laboratory of Prof. Jeffrey R. Millman at Washington University in St. Louis, MI, USA.

Mr. Augsornworawat will present his paper entitled “Single-Cell Transcriptome Profiling Reveals β Cell Maturation in Stem-Cell-Derived Islets after Transplantation” at the 2020 Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Annual Meeting (https://www.bmes.org/annualmeeting) in San Diego, California, USA.

My sincere thanks and deep felt appreciation to all the travel award applicants.

Honorable mention goes to our other travel award finalists:

Dr. Flávia Raquel Teixeira de Castro of the i3S - Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, University of Porto, Portugal.

Mr. Nicholas Fischer of the Minnesota Dental Research Center for Biomaterials and Biomechanics at the University of Minnesota.

Anthony Guiseppi-Elie
Editor-in-Chief, Bioengineering

We are pleased to announce that the following papers were selected as the winners of the Bioengineering Best Paper Award 2020:

Review:

Thomas A. Hartjes, Serhii Mytnyk, Guido W. Jenster, Volkert van Steijn and Martin E. van Royen
Extracellular Vesicle Quantification and Characterization: Common Methods and Emerging Approaches. Bioengineering 2019, 6, 7. doi:10.3390/bioengineering6010007

Articles:

Esther Serrano-Pertierra, Myriam Oliveira-Rodríguez, Montserrat Rivas, Pedro Oliva, Javier Villafani, Ana Navarro, M.
Carmen Blanco-López and Eva Cernuda-Morollón Characterization of Plasma-Derived Extracellular Vesicles Isolated by Different Methods: A Comparison Study. Bioengineering 2019, 6, 8. doi:10.3390/bioengineering6010008

Daniel P. Ura, Joanna E. Karbowniczek, Piotr K. Szewczyk, Sara Metwally, Mateusz Kopyściański and Urszula Stachewicz
Cell Integration with Electrospun PMMA Nanofibers, Microfibers, Ribbons, and Films: A Microscopy Study. Bioengineering 2019, 6, 41. doi:10.3390/bioengineering6020041

The above papers were selected and confirmed by the “Best Paper Award” evaluation committee, which consisted of five members of the Bioengineering Editorial Board and was chaired by the Editor-in-Chief. The winners were determined according to the following criteria:

• Quality, novelty and scientific soundness;
• Citation and download rates.

In recognition of their accomplishment, the winners will receive a certificate and a prize of 500 Swiss Francs.

Chairman
Prof. Dr. Anthony Guiseppi-Elie

Committee
Prof. Dr. Liang Luo
Prof. Dr. Jason A. Burdick
Prof. Dr. Gary L. Bowlin
Prof. Dr. Treena Livingston Arinzeh
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ilaria Fratoddi

We are pleased to announce that the following papers were selected as the winners of the Bioengineering Best Paper Award 2018:

• Grit Sandig, Hans Henning von Horsten, Lars Radke, Véronique Blanchard, Marcus Frohme, Christoph Giese, Volker Sandig and Stephan Hinderlich. Engineering of CHO Cells for the Production of Recombinant Glycoprotein Vaccines with Xylosylated N-glycans. Bioengineering 2017, 4, 38. DOI: 10.3390/bioengineering4020038
• Maike Kuschel, Flora Siebler and Ralf Takors. Lagrangian Trajectories to Predict the Formation of Population Heterogeneity in Large-Scale Bioreactors. Bioengineering 2017, 4, 27. DOI: 10.3390/bioengineering4020027
• Hee-Gyeong Yi, Hyungseok Lee and Dong-Woo Cho. 3D Printing of Organs-On- Chips. Bioengineering 2017, 4, 10. DOI: 10.3390/bioengineering4010010

The above papers were selected and confirmed by the “Best Paper Award” evaluation committee, which consisted of five members of the Bioengineering Editorial Board. The winners were determined according to the following criteria:

• Quality, novelty and scientific soundness
• Citation and download rates

In recognition of their accomplishment, the winners will receive a certificate and an offer to publish a paper free of charge in Bioengineering, after the normal peer-review procedure.

Prof. Dr. Anthony Guiseppi-Elie
Editor-in-Chief

Dear Colleagues,

As Editor-in-Chief of Bioengineering, I am pleased to announce the winner of the Bioengineering Travel Award 2018 for researchers. Dr. Lizette Utomo, a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and Special Dental Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands, received this award. She investigates the potential use of dental pulp stem cells (DPSCs) for the generation of the temporomandibular joint tissue engineering, and more specifically, the mandibular condyle. At the moment, she is working on generating different cartilage zones by combining DPSCs and 3D biomaterials. This will be incorporated into a mandibular condyle construct.

The award consisted of 800 Swiss Francs, to be used to attend an academic conference after a few months. We would like to thank all applicants for submitting their diverse and fascinating range of research topics.