2011 Wellcome Image Awards

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Other winning images:

Chromosome lifetime map by David Lleres, University of Dundee
Visualising neuronal tracts by Nuada Medical Specialist Imaging
Periodontal bacteria by Derren Ready, Eastman Dental Institute
Developing mouse kidney by Bob Kao and Kieran Short, Monash University
Mouse embryo animation by Ian Smyth, Monash University

Judges panel

James Cutmore
Catherine Draycott
John Durant
Eric Hilaire
Robin Lovell-Badge
Alice Roberts
Adam Rutherford
Fergus Walsh

MIT collaboration

From 2011 to 2017, Wellcome partnered with the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Each organisation contributed an image to the other’s awards and provided a judge for the other’s panel.