Congratulations to Prof. Khademhosseini for receiving the Young Investigator Award of the Society for Biomaterials (SFB). The SFB Young Investigator award is given annually to recognize an individual who has demonstrated outstanding achievement in the field of biomaterials research within ten years following his/her terminal degree. The award lecture and prize will be given at the SFB Annual meeting at Orlando, Florida, April 13-16, 2011. The co-recipient of this award is Prof. Jeff Karp also from Harvard University. Prof. Khademhosseini and Karp, who are close friends, started graduate school at University of Toronto and spent time at MIT prior to their faculty careers.