Congratulation to Mr. Bumjin Jang for the MRS Society's Graduate Silver Award. MRS Graduate Student Awards are intended to honor and encourage graduate students whose academic achievements and current materials research display a high level of excellence and distinction. MRS seeks to recognize students of exceptional ability who show promise for significant future achievement in materials research.

Mirjam Bauer interviewed Dr. Franziska Ullrich at the Emerging Technologies in Medicine (EMIT 2018), February 17-18, 2018 in Essen, Germany.

Congratulations to Dr. Pané who was awarded the ERC Consolidator grant for his project "Highly Integrated Nanoscale Robots for Targeted Delivery to the Central Nervous System".

Since 2007, the French Research Group in Robotics (GDR Robotique) awards a prize for the best Ph.D. thesis in Robotics. The jury – presided by M. Jean-Paul Laumond, Directeur de Recherche CNRS, LAAS this year – bestowed the First Prize at the 2016 PhD Thesis Awards to Dr. Quentin Boehler, Postdoctoral Researcher at MSRL.

Patients with age-related retinal disease need regular injections in the eye. At the moment, these must be given by specially trained medical doctors, but a robot may well handle this task in the near future.