Dr Constadina Arvanitis receives 2025 RMS Vice President's Award

The RMS is delighted to announce Dr Constadina (Dina) Arvanitis as the 2025 winner of the RMS Vice President’s Award.

Dina is the Director of the Center for Advanced Microscopy (CAM) and the Nikon Imaging Center (NIC) at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. Dina exemplifies the invaluable service that Core Directors provide to the research community and serves as a role model for young scientists with inclusive leadership philosophies and a global vision.

Dina’s leadership has made CAM one of the most versatile imaging centers in the USA.  CAM is one of only nine Nikon Imaging Centers worldwide. Under her leadership, CAM has received multiple institutional accolades as an Outstanding Facility. She has expanded the infrastructure of CAM with cutting-edge instrumentation which in recent years includes Nikon’s SoRa and N-SPARC technologies, and Abberior’s MINFLUX/STED MIRAVA. Dina has organised yearly training and career-shadowing programmes for trainees and faculty to foster collaboration and expertise.

On the international stage, Dina has been a strong advocate for the establishment and recognition of career paths for imaging scientists. She has co-led a ‘Leaders Leading Leaders’ programme through the Training and Education WG of Bioimaging North America. Dina has also led international initiatives for democratizing microscopy worldwide. For her dedication to mentorship and teaching, she has received the Dean’s Teaching Award for the Driskill Graduate Program.

The RMS Vice President's Award recognises the 'unsung heroes' of microscopy - the engineers, technicians or laboratory research support scientists, in any area of microscopy or flow cytometry.