Congratulations to the winners of the sixth annual Microscopy Today Innovation Awards competition. These awards honor innovative microscopy-related products and methods that appeared in the previous year.
Our team of judges, led by Tom Kelly, looked for innovations that will make new scientific investigations possible. The ten winning innovations were selected on the basis of their importance and usefulness to the microscopy community. In general the entries most likely to win are those that provide better, faster, or entirely new methods of analysis using some type of microscope or microanalytical instrument.
The 2015 Microscopy Today Innovation Award winners are:
Daylight Solutions, Inc. for the Spero™ Infrared Microscope providing chemical imaging using a tunable laser
E.A. Fischione Instruments, Inc. for the Model 1080 PicoMill® TEM specimen preparation system
Gatan, Inc. for the OneView™ Camera enabling in situ images at high frame rates
Klocke Nanotechnik GmbH for the Nanoworkbench enabling hand-eye coordination at the nanoscale
National Institute of Standards and Technology for Scanning Ion Microscopy with low-energy Li ions
Nanolive SA for the 3D Cell Explorer enabling 3D movies of unstained live cells
Nanonics Imaging, Ltd. for the CryoView MP™ enabling multi-probe measurements at 10 Kelvin
Aydogan Ozcan of UCLA for Lens-Free Computational Microscopy enabling giga-pixel 3D imaging
Phenom-World BV for the Delphi combining fluorescence microscopy with electron microscopy
Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH for the MultiSEM 505 providing high-throughput imaging with 61 electron beams
Descriptions of the above innovations are given in an article within this issue. This article also lists the developers of these instruments and methods.
Details of the nomination process for the next competition will be posted on the Microscopy Today website (www.microscopy-today.com) by January 1, 2016. Nomination applications will be accepted through March 21, 2016.
