Hsin-Chih Yeh honored with Postdoctoral Publication Prize

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Hsin-Chih (Tim) Yeh

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Hsin-Chih (Tim) Yeh of the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (MPA-CINT) received the Laboratory Postdoctoral Publication Prize in Experimental Sciences. The biennial prize is awarded for the best article in experimental sciences, published, or accepted for publication. Former Physics (P) Division Leader, Damon Giovanielli, created the prize in 1999 and funds it.

Yeh received the award for his paper, “A Silver DNA Nanocluster Probe that Fluoresces Upon Hybridization,” published in 2010 in Nano Letters. James Werner (MPA-CINT) mentored Yeh. According to Werner, Yeh's paper “represents an innovative new discovery and successful application/demonstration of a new nucleic detection probe.” These probes, termed nanocluster beacons, have distinct advantages over molecular beacon probes for the detection of nucleic acid targets and thus have a large potential impact in biotechnology. Yeh is now an assistant professor in the Biomedical Engineering Department at the University of Texas, Austin.