Deloitte QB3 Award for Innovation
The Deloitte QB3 Award for Innovation is a $10,000 prize given to the student, postdoc, or staff scientist (or team) whose research has been deemed to have the greatest capacity to advance human health. This year’s competition has closed. Nominations for 2012 will open in the spring.
38 candidates were nominated from the three QB3 campuses (UCB, UCSC, UCSF) by faculty. The field was narrowed to 5 finalists by an expert panel of judges representing industry, venture capital, academia and the media.
The winner was chosen by open voting—only a UC campus email address was required. Nearly 1500 votes were cast. The winner—the “cholera biofilm team” from UC Santa Cruz, Walter Bray, Kelly Peach, and Nicholas Shikuma—was announced at an award ceremony October 27, 2011.
The five finalists
Click on the images to learn more about each innovation. Your opinion matters, so please post comments on the finalists’ blog pages!
