{"id":10516,"date":"2021-04-16T11:22:29","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T11:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.coolled.com\/?p=10516"},"modified":"2021-06-09T14:18:51","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T14:18:51","slug":"becoming-mercury-free-with-led-microscope-lighting-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coolled.com\/news\/becoming-mercury-free-with-led-microscope-lighting-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Becoming Mercury-Free with LED Microscope Lighting Prize!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=&#8221;10526&#8243; img_size=&#8221;medium&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221;][vc_column_text]Alfonso Schmidt from the Malaghan Institute of Medical Research, New Zealand, was last year\u2019s lucky winner of the CoolLED Image in an Image competition \u2013 where we judge not just the quality of an image, but also what\u2019s in the image (find out more about our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coolled.com\/competition\">competition<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>In our latest Under the Microscope interview, you can read how Alfonso discovered his \u2018Eye of Sauron\u2019 image from a study of atopic dermatitis. He also explains how his sophisticated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coolled.com\/led-microscope-lighting\/\">LED microscope lighting<\/a> prize, the pE-300<sup>ultra<\/sup>, has helped his imaging facility make breakthrough discoveries in immunology and move one step closer to becoming completely mercury-free.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.coolled.com\/interviews\/under-the-microscope-11-becoming-mercury-free-with-the-image-in-an-image-competition\/\">Read the interview here<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Have found your own Image in an Image?<\/strong> You can also enter this year\u2019s competition for your chance to win a pE-300<sup>ultra<\/sup>!<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=&#8221;Enter here!&#8221; color=&#8221;primary&#8221; align=&#8221;center&#8221; link=&#8221;url:http%3A%2F%2Fwww.coolled.com%2Fcompetition|target:_blank&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winner of Image in the Image competition 2020 shares \u2018Eye of Sauron\u2019 discovery and benefits of new LED Illuminator<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10518,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[484,525,526,492],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Becoming Mercury-Free with LED Microscope Lighting Prize! 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