After only three years in business, 89 North won the prestigious 2011 Prism Award from the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) on Jan. 25. The award was for new products in the category of “Life Sciences and Biophotonics.”

The new product is 89 North’s Heliophor, a patent-pending, innovative, high-intensity and exceptionally stable new light source used for quantitative fluorescence imaging in a wide variety of applications, including cancer research. A [...]

89 North is pleased to announce that it has been selected to receive the 2011 Vermont Governor’s Award for Environmental Excellence for the Heliophor, a mercury-free, solid-state light engine used in biomedical imaging applications.