Confocal system for wider community use wins Top 10 Award

Microscopy solutions manufacturer CrestOptics SpA (Rome) celebrated the recent naming of its CICERO spinning disk confocal system as a ‘Top 10 Best Microscopy Innovation’ award winner by Microscopy Today, a journal of the Microscopy Society of America, at the recent Microscopy & Microanalysis meeting held in Cleveland, Ohio (July 28 – August 1). Launched in April 2023, CICERO was developed as a compact and cost-effective solution to improve access to high-end imaging for the wider scientific community.

The annual Innovation Award recognises leading technological advances that its panel of expert judges predict will have the most significant impact in the efficiency and innovation of the microscopy community. Those selected are deemed to be able to provide better, faster, easier, or entirely new methods of analysis to revolutionise workflows using a microscope or microanalytical instrument. In 2022, the Italian company’s DeepSIM super resolution confocal microscope module was recognised with the award.

Alessandra Scarpellini, Chief Commercial Officer, CrestOptics, commented “CICERO is achieving great success in the microscopy market. Our aim was to engineer a system that is unique from other solutions in the market, providing all laboratories with easy access to high-quality imaging with maximum configuration flexibility and we are delighted to see it recognised, not only with this award but also with growing notoriety in the field.” She added: “Studying the market, we realised the need for an instrument that was at the same time powerful and easy to integrate into different platforms. This is precisely what we envision CICERO will achieve: supporting scientists as they embark on a confocal journey and guiding them toward more meaningful discoveries.”

“Our focus with CICERO has been stripping down epifluorescence and confocal to their essential components to achieve a compact, budget-friendly yet performing and powerful system.” said Federico Filesi, Electronics Engineers & Project Manager for CICERO project. He continued: “My wish is to see our customers make good use of our engineering and design features and to ease their daily work with the smoothest confocal experience.”

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