Scientific Imaging Competition Winners

This exciting international competition is a great opportunity for microscopists from across the world to showcase their skills. It provides a great outlet for those that can capture the breath-taking and engaging beauty of the microscopical world. The Society is always in awe of the quality of submissions across the categories.

With over 230 submissions, the 2017 RMS Scientific Imaging Competition was the largest yet. It's great to see so many people submitting their best work, but it made the judges lives very difficult. First, with the shortlisting process which gave us 50 images and videos to display at mmc2017, then with the final decisions on winners. So much so that a second prize in the video category had to be sought at the last minute!! Prize giving for the 2017 competition took place at mmc2017 in July.

We would like to thank the following companies for their generous sponsorship of the competition prizes:

Nikon Instruments UK

Carl Zeiss

Journal of Microscopy

Lambda

Agar Scientific

Bruker Nano Surfaces

Quekett Microscopical Club

Many congratulations to all the winners including the short video category which was

1st Prize -A nanoflight around a T-cell

Genetically engineered to fight lymphoblastic cancer. nanoflights are movies made in the scanning electron microscope with a very precise 8 axes piezostage and a multi-detector setup to get the coloured imaging. This flight had been the maybe smallest ever actually flown 360 in microscopic history. Diameter of T-cell is ca. 10-12 micron.

Stefan Diller