Microscopy Today Innovation Awards

Description

Each year Microscopy Today presents ten awards to organizations or individuals who have launched or published innovations in microscopy or microanalysis. Winning products and methods are selected based on their usefulness to the microscopy community. The entries most likely to win are those that provide better, faster, easier, or entirely new methods of analysis using a microscope or microanalytical instrument.

Eligibility

Entries will be accepted only for the following: (a) new commercial microscopy-related products that were first marketed in the previous calendar year or (b) new microscopy methods and inventions that were first published in peer-reviewed journals in the previous calendar year. While multiple entries from the same organization are allowed, a single company or individual cannot receive more than one award in a given year. Officers and editors of the Microscopy Society of America and their subcontractors are not eligible.

Nominations

Entries may come from colleagues or as self-nominations. There are only four questions on the entry form. There is no charge to enter this competition.

Entry Forms

Download an entry form here or contact Bob Price at bob.price@uscmed.sc.edu.

Deadline

The annual deadline for completed forms is March 21 or the following Monday if this day falls on a weekend.

Previous Winners

Descriptions of winning products and methods are published in the September issue of Microscopy TodayView the magazine and previous issues here.

2024 Winners

Light Microscopy

Advanced Optical Technologies for CrystalView large-area crystallography

Crest Optics for CICERO spinning-disk device for fluorescence microscopy

Miltenyi Biotec for LightSpeed mode option for UltraMicroscope Blaze

All Microscopies

Oak Ridge National Laboratory for AEcroscopy enabling automated microscopy experiments

Electron Microscopy

Carl Zeiss Microscopy for Volutome in-chamber ultramicrotome for SEM

DENSsolutions for Lightning Arctic in-situ TEM heating, cooling, and biasing

IDES and turbo TEM for Tempo low-dose imaging and dose modulation

Oxford Instruments NanoAnalysis for Unity combining BSE and X-ray images

Quantifoil, SPT Labtech, and MRC Laboratory for Molecular Biology for HexAuFoil cryo-electron microscopy specimen supports

Thermo Fisher Scientific for Meridian EX electron-beam failure analysis system