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Leica Microsystems Develops Stefan Hell’s Award-Winning STED Microscope

Mannheim/Wetzlar, Germany, 27 November 2006

On November 23, 2006, Professor Stefan Hell, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, was presented with the prestigious German Future Award by Federal President Horst Köhler.

This annual technology and innovation award, which was conferred for the tenth time this year, has a cash value of 250,000 Euro and is given in recognition of projects that not only have revolutionary implications for science but are also ready for application and marketing.

Professor Hell received the Future Award for inventing STED microscopy. (STED stands for “stimulated emission depletion”.) The patented STED technique has been licensed to Leica Microsystems, which is developing STED microscopy into a user-friendly instrument to be launched on the market in 2007. The new fluorescence system will be produced in Wetzlar and Mannheim. The Stefan Hell/Leica Microsystems team was already successful at the beginning of the year, when Leica Microsystems won the 2005 Innovation Award of German Industry for the Leica TCS 4PI. This ultra-high resolution microscope system was another invention of Hell’s to be marketed by Leica.

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Leica Microsystems Develops Stefan Hell’s Award-Winning STED Microscope