Read about the scientists, artists and institutions behind these winning images.
Annie and Dave from the School of Pharmacy, University of London, have been producing wonderful images together for quite a few years. Dave has been a microscopist for 37 years and set up the Electron Microscope Unit at the School in 1977. He has imaged numerous samples including cell cultures, crystals, most forms of drug delivery vehicle, liposomes, polymers and carbon nanotubes using a wide range of imaging techniques.
Annie is the multimedia unit manager at the School of Pharmacy. It is her brilliant colourisation that enhances Dave's black-and-white micrographs in a partnership that has won many awards. Annie says: "I think it is really important to express science for the public in an artistic fashion so that they relate to something that they think is beautiful as well as scientific." Such images can also be of tremendous value to scientists as well. "When you’ve got a graphic and you can actually see something three-dimensionally, it makes a big difference."
To find out more about the individual images, click on the thumbnails below.