PicoQuant GmbH of Berlin has announced that a young investigator award will be presented at the session on ultrasensitive and single-molecule detection technologies at the 2007 SPIE Photonics West/BiOS Conference in San Jose, Calif. Scientists must be 35 or younger and must be both the primary author and presenter of an accepted abstract to be eligible for the $750 cash award. The winner also will be granted free admission to a talk at the organization’s 2007 international workshop on “Single Molecule Spectroscopy and Ultra Sensitive Analysis in the Life Sciences” in Berlin. The abstracts are due by July 10.