IBBR-NIST Scientists receive MML Accolades Awards for outstanding work

Please join us in congratulating two IBBR-NIST group members who received the Material Measurement Laboratory (MML) Award and were recognized at a ceremony with their colleagues in July.  Andrea Szakal, Ph.D., a research scientist, received the Excellence in MML Safety Accolade for implementing an integrated database system and purchase request tool to support sitewide chemical inventory compliance at IBBR, and Luke Arbogast, Ph.D., a research chemist, received the MML Postdoctoral Fellow Accolade for continuing the development of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy methods for atomic resolution structural analysis of protein therapeutics.

"MML is a large, vibrant, technical, directorate with research spanning across the United States and conducted, in many cases, with our highly valued partners, such as University of Maryland, College Park, and University of Maryland, Baltimore at IBBR,” said MML Director Laurie Locascio. “Our awardees represent the best of the best in MML – the best science and the best service across the Laboratory.  I am proud to work every day with great people like Dr. Szakal and Dr. Arbogast, who are each very deserving of this award."

The MML Accolades Program was created to recognize exemplary work by staff in areas of strategic interest and benefit to MML.  Awardees were nominated by their peers - MML employees and associates - based on the accomplishments and outcomes of their work.