The finalists 2021

Due to the pandemic, the Award did not take place in 2020 and the short-listed finalists were deferred to the 2021 edition. The winners were revealed at a digital ceremony on 17 June 2021.

Industry

• Per Gisle Djupesland (NO)
  Better nasal drug delivery

• Christoph Gürtler, Walter Leitner and team (DE)
  Using carbon dioxide to make greener plastics

• Jan van der Tempel (NL)
  Safe transfer to and from offshore platforms

Research

• Marco Donolato and team (IT/DK)
  Magnetic nanoparticles to diagnose disease

• Robert N. Grass (AT) and Wendelin Stark (CH)
  DNA-based data storage

• Mathias Fink and Mickael Tanter (FR)
  Ultrasound imaging method using shear waves

Non-EPO countries

•   Bo Pi and Yi He (CN)
  Live fingerprint sensors for greater security

• Kim Lewis and Slava S. Epstein (US/RU)
  Tools to cultivate microbes

• Sumita Mitra (IN/US)
  Restoring smiles with nanomaterials

Small and medium-sized enterprises

• Carmen Hijosa (ES)
  Turning pineapple leaves into a sustainable alternative to leather

• Ben Kibel and Pete Kibel (UK)
  Fishing hook cover to save seabirds

• Henrik Lindström and Giovanni Fili (SE)
  Flexible solar cells for portable devices

Lifetime achievement

• Metin Colpan (DE)
  Efficient tools to analyse nucleic acids

• Karl Leo (DE)
  Advances in organic semiconductors

• Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic (RS/US)
  Advances in tissue engineering