The Helmholtz Center in Berlin has awarded its Innovation Award to three scientists for their pioneering work in the field of histological tomography: physicist and MBExC member Prof. Dr. Tim Salditt from the University of Göttingen, pathologist Prof. Dr. Danny Jonigk from RWTH University Hospital Aachen, and pathologist and anatomist Prof. Dr. Maximilian Ackermann from RWTH Aachen University Hospital and Helios University Hospital Wuppertal, University of Witten/Herdecke. The selection committee particularly praised their groundbreaking achievements in the development of histological tomography, a new high-resolution 3D X-ray imaging technique for tissue using phase contrast, and its application in the investigation of tissue changes in histopathological diagnostics.
You can find the press release (in German) here.
Computer-generated image of a human placenta, measured using virtual 3D histology. Any cross-sectional images can be superimposed on the organ virtually in high resolution. This allows the length scales of anatomy and histology to be linked and the entire organ to be examined for abnormalities in tissue architecture, for example. Photo: J. Reichmann et al., PNAS Nexus 2025.
