Imec announced that Niels Verellen, one of its young scientists, has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant. The grant of €1.5 million (for five years) will be used to enable high-resolution, fast, robust, zero-maintenance, inexpensive and ultra-compact microscopy technology based on on-chip photonics and CMOS image sensors. The technology paves the way for multiple applications of cell imaging in life sciences, biology, and medicine and compact, cost-effective DNA sequencing instruments.   Recent...