Bioanalysis Rising Star Award 2020

20 Dec 2020

BRSA 2020: the winner

We are delighted to name Sooraj Baijnath (Uppsala University, Sweden) the 2020 winner of the Bioanalysis Rising Star Award (BRSA; formerly the New Investigator Award). This year’s winner, Sooraj Baijnath, Researcher in the Medical Mass Spectrometry Department at Uppsala University, was nominated by Sanil Singh (University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa), who commented: “Sooraj’s skills have been recognized nationally and internationally by being part of the DIPLOMICS South Africa Mass Spectrometry Society and being a successful co-applicant on a seeding labs equipment grant and a STINT Swedish collaborative grant. His skills are of the highest standard having received training at the Bruker Headquarters in Germany and at Uppsala University in Sweden.” On receiving the award, Sooraj commented: “It has been overwhelming to see the amount of support I have received globally. I would like to thank the award sponsors, Waters Corporation, and Bioanalysis Zone for this opportunity.”