Announcement of Winners for the 2023 CACA Young Investigator Awards and Student Excellence Awards
The Chinese American Chromatography Association (CACA) is pleased to announce the winners of the 2023 Young Investigation Awards (YIA) and Student Excellence Awards (SEA). These awards are selected annually to recognize outstanding scientists and students who have made exceptional contributions to the development of separation science and its applications.
Young Investigator Awards (2) Sponsored by Advanced Materials Technology and Waters Corporation
Dr. Alexandre Goyon and Dr. Ling Hao have been selected to win the 2023 CACA Young Investigator Awards.
Dr. Goyon is a Principal Scientist at Genentech, leading a team of 3 researchers developing innovative analytical methods for characterization of novel drug modalities and drug delivery systems. Dr. Goyon has developed innovative approaches to characterize therapeutic oligonucleotides and multi-dimensional LC/MS methods to streamline antibody characterization. His work has resulted in 37 publications (first author of 23 papers), including 4 papers in Anal. Chem. He is a pioneer in the analysis of new drug modalities.
Dr. Hao is an Assistant professor in the Chemistry Department at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Her scientific contribution to separation science has expanded across analytical method development, bioinformatics tool development, and discovering disease mechanisms and biomarkers. She has developed many liquid chromatography (LC), capillary electrophoresis (CE), gas chromatography (GC), and mass spectrometry (MS) methods for the analyses of proteins, peptides, and metabolites to study human diseases. Dr. Hao has a total of 30 peer-reviewed publications (6 corresponding-author, 10 first-authorships, 4 journal covers) and 2106 citations.
Student Excellence Awards (2) sponsored by MAC-MOD Analytical
Caitlin Cain and Philip Eor have been selected to win the 2023 CACA Student Excellence Awards.
Miss Caitlin Cain is a Ph.D. student under the direction of Professor Robert Synovec at University of Washington. She obtained her B. Sc. at Virginia Commonwealth University, VA, in 2019. Her research focuses on advancing instrumental and computational methods for chromatography. She has published 14 papers, with 10 as the first author.
Mr. Philip Eor is a Ph.D. student at Iowa State University under the direction of Professor Jared L. Anderson. He received his M. Sc. and B. Sc. degrees at Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea, in 2012 and 2010, respectively. He has made tremendous advancements in separation science, particularly in developing novel platforms to measure intermolecular interactions within argentation chromatography. He has published 10 papers, with 6 as the first author.
Award Selection Process and Presentation
The selection process is based on research accomplishments/innovations, the number of publications and impacts, and the service record to the scientific community. The CACA award committee is chaired by Dr. Perry Wang of the U.S. FDA. It consists of four other CACA executive board members: Dr. Tao Chen of Genentech, Dr. Michael Dong of MWD Consulting, Dr. Yi He of the City University of New York, John Jay College, and Dr. Mingming Ma of Corteva Agriscience.
All awards (plaques and cash $1000* for YIA, and $500* for SEA) will be presented to the winners at the CACA dinner networking event at PittCon. (*The cash is a travel grant used to support the awardee to attend Pittcon 2023. The winner who cannot attend Pittcon 2023 will only receive a plaque and not the cash travel grant).
CACA is a non-profit organization with a mission to promote networking and career development for its members. CACA hosts frequent webinars, workshops, symposia, and dinner networking events at Pittcon, HPLC, and EAS Conferences to provide forums for sharing technical information in separation sciences and the development of collaborative relationships. Additional information is available at www.ca-ca.org.
Photos of the CACA YIA and SEA Winners
Dear CACA members and chromatography colleagues,
Per its bylaws, the Chinese American Chromatography Association (CACA) elects its officers every
two years. The officers include President, Immediate-Past-President, President-elect, Secretary, and
Treasurer. The President-elect automatically becomes the President of the next administration team, and
the current President becomes the Immediate-Past-President.
In June 2022, the CACA Executive Committee conducted the election, and we are pleased to announce
the new officers:
President: Prof. Yi He, The City University of New York (CUNY), New York, USA
President-elect: Dr. Mingming Ma, Corteva Agriscience LLC, Indianapolis, IN, USA
Secretary: Dr. Fenjian Shi, Amgen, Cambridge, MA, USA
Treasure: Dr. Hongyue (Howard) Guo, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Princeton, NJ, USA
Immediate-Past-President: Dr. Naidong Weng, Johnson and Johnson, Spring House, PA, USA
All officers were elected without objection, and they will have a two-year term of service.
In the past decade, CACA has become an influential organization in the field of separation science. We
are looking forward to making more contributions and services to the community and our members under
their new leadership.
Best regards,
CACA Executive Committee
Dear CACA members and chromatography colleagues,
Per its bylaws, the Chinese American Chromatography Association (CACA) elects its officers every two years. The officers include President, Immediate-Past-President, President-elect, Secretary, and Treasurer. The President-elect automatically becomes the President of the next administration team, and the current President becomes the Immediate-Past-President. The President-elect, Secretary, and Treasurer are elected by the Executive Committee from the current Executive Committee Members who have served on the Committee for at least two years.
In April 2020, the CACA Executive Committee conducted the election, and we are pleased to announce the new officers:
President: Dr. Naidong Weng, Johnson and Johnson, Spring House, PA, USA
President-elect: Prof. Yi He, The City University of New York (CUNY), New York, USA
Secretary: Dr. Mingming Ma, Corteva Agriscience LLC, Indianapolis, IN, USA
Treasure: Dr. Wu Chen, Agilent Technologies, Wilmington, DE, USA
Immediate-Past-President: Prof. Xiang Zhang, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA
All officers were elected without objection, and they will have a two-year term of service.
In the past decade, CACA has become an influential organization in the field of separation science. We are looking forward to making more contributions and services to the community and our members under their new leadership.
Best regards,
CACA Executive Committee
