German Future Prize 2022 for a novel microscope
10/28/2022German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has awarded the 26th German Future Prize to researchers from the Jena-based company Carl Zeiss Microscopy: Thomas Kalkbrenner, Jörg Siebenmorgen and Ralf Wolleschensky (10/26-22). The award winners have developed a novel microscope for the gentle 3-D imaging of living cells, which will enable further intensive research into the fundamentals of life. Fantastic news for the bioimaging research area and our speaker Prof. Markus Sauer, who was involved in the development of this award-winning ZEISS Lattice Lightsheet Microscopy technique.
"Together with their teams, they developed a technology to use high-resolution fluorescence microscopy to study living objects without being affected by the light. For this purpose, they expanded the so-called grating light sheet microscopy and combined it with innovative optical elements. Furthermore, they created a way to make the complex system easy to handle and enabled the broad use of common sample carriers. This opens up completely new possibilities for tracking and better understanding processes in cells - in basic research and in the search for new diagnostic methods or active agents against many diseases."
"The German President honors outstanding research and development projects with the German Future Prize. Essential to the jury's decision are the degree of scientific and technical innovation as well as the potential to translate this achievement into sustainable jobs. The prize is endowed with 250,000 euros."
Our spokesman Prof. Dr. Markus Sauer was involved in this development and therefore also invited to this award ceremony.
Source: https://www.deutscher-zukunftspreis.de/de/bundespraesident-verleiht-deutschen-zukunftspreis-2022
