A number of student prizes were awarded, including best student talk, won by Sara Spada from The Université de Technologie de Compiègne (France) for her talk entitled: "Molecularly imprinted polymer (MIP) nanogels for specific capture of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor"

Poster prizes were awarded to 3 presenters as follows:

Evan Johns (Bath University, UK) for the poster "Portable hybrid aptamer-MIP sensors for the electrochemical detection of  per- and polyfluorinated substances"

Rahil Radfar (Kiel University, Germany) for the poster "Development and systematic optimization of magnetic molecularly imprinted polymers for the detection of IL-6"

Tonquing Zou (Nanjing University, China) for the poster "Sialic acid-imprinted NIR-II Theranostic Nanoprobe for Targeted Breast Cancer Imaging and Photothermal Therapy"

Congratulations to all the winners and a big thanks to Annelies Voorhaar and the Journal of Chromatography A (Elsevier) for donating the prizes.

As to 2028, the next conference in this series will be hosted by Prof. Lianghai Hu, in the city of Changchun, at Jilin University, China. I hope to see you all there!