WITec honours 2024 Paper Award winners from the UK, Netherlands, and South Korea
WITec has honoured researchers from Great Britain, the Netherlands, and South Korea with its 2024 Paper Awards for their remarkable contributions to cellular biology, biomineralisation, and single-photon emitting materials. These awards highlight the outstanding work conducted using WITec microscopes, and Oxford Instruments WITec congratulates the winners while thanking all participants. The jury anticipates more exceptional submissions for the 2025 awards.
GOLD: Vernon LaLone, Aleksandra Aizenshtadt, John Goertz, Steven Ray Wilson, Stefan Krauss, Molly M. Stevens (2023). Their study on 3D liver organoids at Imperial College London showcased how Raman spectral imaging can quantitatively analyse complex 3D biological structures. This method efficiently detects compounds challenging to visualise with traditional staining techniques, revealing differences between primary and stem-cell-derived organoids, and tracking drug metabolisation within tissues.
SILVER: Robin H.M. van der Meijden and his team at Radboud University Medical Center, Netherlands, received this award for their work on bone biomineralisation. They demonstrated that the structure and composition of the extracellular matrix (ECM), rather than cellular activity, guide mineral infiltration into bone tissue. Their cell-free in vitro system offered new insights into bone formation and the potential for studying mineralisation-related diseases.
BRONZE: Michael Neumann, Xu Wei, and colleagues at Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea, won for their research on hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) in quantum optics. Their findings revealed that many single-photon emitters (SPEs) in hBN result from organic residues, not the hBN crystal lattice, shifting the focus towards the rational selection of fluorophores for quantum photonic technologies.
The WITec Paper Award 2025 is now open for submissions. Articles published in 2024 that include data acquired with a WITec instrument are eligible.
Submissions should be sent as PDFs to
papers@WITec.de by 31 January 2025, for a chance to win.
More information online:
ilmt.co/PL/D5b8 63239pr@reply-direct.com
The Paper Award Bronze winners received their certifi cates. Left picture: Dr Michael Neumann (right) with Oxford Instruments’ Stefan Gomes da Costa; Right picture, from left to right: Professor Young Hee Lee, shared fi rst author Dr Xu Wei, group member Debottom Daw and Oxford Instruments representative James Kim at the Center for Integrated Nanostructure Physics, Sungkyunkwan University in Suwon, Republic of Korea.
The WITec Paper Award Gold winner Dr Vernon LaLone (left image). Professor Dame Molly Stevens receives the Award from Oxford Instruments representative Stephen McGurk at the University of Oxford (right image) on behalf of her research group, previously of the Imperial College London, UK.
Robin van der Meijden (middle) and his co-authors Professor Nico Sommerdijk (left) and Dr Anat Akiva (right) from the Radboud University Medical Center in Nijmegen presenting their Paper Award Silver.
Page 1 |
Page 2 |
Page 3 |
Page 4 |
Page 5 |
Page 6 |
Page 7 |
Page 8 |
Page 9 |
Page 10 |
Page 11 |
Page 12 |
Page 13 |
Page 14 |
Page 15 |
Page 16 |
Page 17 |
Page 18 |
Page 19 |
Page 20 |
Page 21 |
Page 22 |
Page 23 |
Page 24 |
Page 25 |
Page 26 |
Page 27 |
Page 28 |
Page 29 |
Page 30 |
Page 31 |
Page 32 |
Page 33 |
Page 34 |
Page 35 |
Page 36 |
Page 37 |
Page 38 |
Page 39 |
Page 40 |
Page 41 |
Page 42 |
Page 43 |
Page 44 |
Page 45 |
Page 46 |
Page 47 |
Page 48 |
Page 49 |
Page 50 |
Page 51 |
Page 52 |
Page 53 |
Page 54 |
Page 55 |
Page 56 |
Page 57 |
Page 58 |
Page 59 |
Page 60 |
Page 61 |
Page 62 |
Page 63 |
Page 64 |
Page 65 |
Page 66 |
Page 67 |
Page 68 |
Page 69 |
Page 70 |
Page 71 |
Page 72 |
Page 73 |
Page 74 |
Page 75 |
Page 76 |
Page 77 |
Page 78 |
Page 79 |
Page 80 |
Page 81 |
Page 82 |
Page 83 |
Page 84 |
Page 85 |
Page 86 |
Page 87 |
Page 88 |
Page 89 |
Page 90 |
Page 91 |
Page 92 |
Page 93 |
Page 94 |
Page 95 |
Page 96
