Sasaki Award

Jim Q Kim MD. (Professor,Seoul National Universty)
Professor Jin Q Kim have contributed a lot for the development of Laboratory Automation fields nationally and internationally. He is the pioneer of Laboratory Automation in Korea who advocated the concept of ATLAS(A Tailor-made Laboratory Automation System) which is cost-beneficial and effective system especially for the emerging market. His idea is now adopted well and regarded as the standard for introducing the TLA system in Korea and many other country. He also performed many invited lectures and took part in international conference such as AACC sponsored-Laboratory Automation Symposia as the key note speaker. Recently, hosted the 5th International Conference of Laboratory Automation and Robotic in Seoul at 2006 which is believed as most successful symposium ever.

Akira Suwabe MD. (Professor, Iwate Medical University School of Medicine)
In spite of the fact that his university is located in the disadvantaged environment compared with the urban universities, he manages the activities for improving the value of the laboratory testing through the exhibition of their activity. He is steadily engaged not only in the speedy response of the test report, but also in the centralization of the instruments and technicians for the effective use of the laboratory and the automation of the laboratory testing to expand their works.

Travel Award

Evaluation of a Preanalytical Specimen Collection System (ATOMS) in a Hospital
Peter Lim S.Tsai, A. T. Chong and S. Sethi
Department of Laboratory Medicine, National University Hospital, Singapore

Allocating Sample Storage Number for Easy Sample Racking and Retrieval
Dae-Hyun Ko, Sang Hoon Song, Junghan Song and Jin Q. Kim
Dept. of Laboratory Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Evaluation of a Turbid Metric Immunoassay for FDP D-dimer and Fibrinogen using Dimension RxL MAX Random Access Autoanalyzer
Etsuko Hamada, T. Kondoh and M. Maekawa
Department of Laboratory Medicine, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan

Measurement of Dielectrophoretic Force by Employing Controllable Gravitational Force
Hiroko Imasato
Kyushu Institute of Technology, Fukuoka, Japan