We are proud to announce that Dr. Alireza Dolatshahi-Pirouz has received the prestigious Villum Rasmussen Young Investigator Award and will be joining the faculty of nanotechnology at the Technical University of Denmark effective March 2015. Dr. Dolatshahi-Pirouz joined our laboratory as a Sapere Aude postdoctoral fellow, and worked in the areas of bone tissue engineering, vascularization of tissue engineered constructs and microarray studies. We congratulate Dr. Dolatshahi-Pirouz on assuming his new position, and wish him all the bests in his future endeavors.