iFIT Visualization Award 2025

🤔Is there a connection between arts and science? If we look at the images of this years Visuliaization Award Contest, we definitely can answer that question with yes!

🎨 🤝🔬Arts and Science are deeply connected through shared skills like creativity and observation and in the nature of their exploratory processes trying to understand the world.

🏆This years winner is Gina Dunkel from the Werner Siemens Imaging Center with her image titled "Visualization of metastatic breast cancer spread"!

🖌️This image shows a cleared whole mouse with breast cancer metastases in the lung, captured using advanced light-sheet microscopy. Metastatic disease remains a major challenge in cancer treatment due to its complexity and therapy resistance. These cancer lesions are often very small and difficult to study with conventional methods. High-resolution, three-dimensional imaging of the whole mouse allows us to analyze how metastatic cancer progresses and responds to immunotherapy, providing us valuable insights into metastatic disease. Metastasis are stained against mCherry (magenta), vessels are stained by aSma (blue), autofluorescence is shown in green and lymph nodes in yellow.

🙏A huge thank you to all participants: Anna Ohmayer, Dominic Menger, Stefania Pezzana, Jonas Scheid, Julia Thiel, Julian Anthes, Lanzhu Li, Martina Giampetraglia, Martina Rausch, Steffen Hardy, Ragini Kushwaha, Vanessa Arnold