Third German Business Innovation Award for Leica Microsystems
23 January 2006 - Frankfurt/Main
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Venture into the Nanoworld
By winning its third German Business Innovation Award, Leica Microsystems has ultimately established its position at the cutting edge of German innovators. On January 21st, President Dr. Wolf-Otto Reuter and Dr. Thomas Zapf, Director Scientific Relations, received the award in Frankfurt. The high-tech optical company wins the award in the medium-sized business category. The company already won the prestigious award in 1984 for the ELSAM acoustic microscope and again in 2002 for the DUV high-resolution microscope objective for photomask and wafer fabrication.
This time, the jury conferred the award for a high-resolution microscope with 4Pi technology: the Leica TCS 4PI. With this microscope, submicroscopically small structures in living cells and cell organelles can be imaged in 3D with clearer detail and more structural information than any other light microscope on the market. It provides basic research with a tool to find out new information on protein-based diseases. According to Zapf, it opens up completely new horizons for the diagnosis and therapy of malaria, Alzheimer's or AIDS, for example.
By winning its third German Business Innovation Award, Leica Microsystems has ultimately established its position at the cutting edge of German innovators. On January 21st, President Dr. Wolf-Otto Reuter and Dr. Thomas Zapf, Director Scientific Relations, received the award in Frankfurt. The high-tech optical company wins the award in the medium-sized business category. The company already won the prestigious award in 1984 for the ELSAM acoustic microscope and again in 2002 for the DUV high-resolution microscope objective for photomask and wafer fabrication.
This time, the jury conferred the award for a high-resolution microscope with 4Pi technology: the Leica TCS 4PI. With this microscope, submicroscopically small structures in living cells and cell organelles can be imaged in 3D with clearer detail and more structural information than any other light microscope on the market. It provides basic research with a tool to find out new information on protein-based diseases. According to Zapf, it opens up completely new horizons for the diagnosis and therapy of malaria, Alzheimer's or AIDS, for example.
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