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Dr. Luca Lanzano Wins 2021 Honor
HORIBA Scientific, a world leader in fluorescence spectroscopy solutions, presented Dr. Luca Lanzano with the annual Young Fluorescence Investigator Award at the virtual Biophysical Society virtual event. Dr. Lanzano is an Associate Professor of Applied Physics in the Department of Physics and Astronomy ‘E.Majorana,’ at the University of Catania in Catania, Italy. The winner was selected by the Biological Fluorescence Subgroup of the Biophysical Society.
Along with the recognition, HORIBA presented a $1000 check to Dr. Lanzano and a crystal award.
Since March 2020, Dr. Lanzano has been an Associate Professor of Applied Physics at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Catania. He worked as a Post-Doctoral fellow from 2008 to 2013 at the University of California at Irvine, in the Laboratory for Fluorescence Dynamics. He developed fluorescence microscopy- and spectroscopy-based methods to measure protein dynamics and interac