PicoQuant honors trio with Young Investigator Award during Single Molecule Spectroscopy & Imaging conference

FEBRUARY 26, 2009--The Young Investigators Award, a competition for scientists ages 35 and younger, typically offers a cash prize of $750. But this year, the abundance of high-quality entries "made it impossible to pick a single winner," says PicoQuant GmbH, which funds the contest. The company increased the award total and distributed the prize money equally among three winners. The competition is part of the BiOS/Photonics West Single Molecule Spectroscopy and Imaging conference.

Feb. 27, 2009

FEBRUARY 26, 2009--The Young Investigators Award, a competition for scientists ages 35 and younger, typically offers a cash prize of $750. But this year, the abundance of high-quality entries "made it impossible to pick a single winner," says PicoQuant GmbH (Berlin, Germany), which has funded the contest since 2007. In the end, PicoQuant increased the award amount to $1125, which was distributed equally among three winners: