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Professor Ian S Gilmore FMedSci, Senior Fellow at the UK’s National Physical Laboratory (NPL) and visiting Professor at the University of Nottingham has been selected to receive the 2025 Medard W. Welch Award, the premier research award from the American Vacuum Society (AVS). Ian Gilmore was selected for ‘pioneering advances in molecular imaging by mass spectrometry with impact in biomedical research and novel devices and championing international standardisation’.
“It is a great honour to be selected for this prestigious award and I am very grateful to the outstanding team of researchers and students at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) and my collaborators around the world in industry and academia who have made all we have achieved possible.” said Professor Ian S. Gilmore
"Many congratulations to Ian Gilmore on winning the prestigious Medard W. Welch Award. It's a great recognition for Ian's groundbreaking research in mass spectrometry and the impact this has made in the community. This work was originally funded by our Strategic Research programme (now called Director Research programme) which aims to support high-risk high-reward research which could benefits measurement science." said Professor JT Janssen, Chief Scientist, NPL.
His research has made breakthroughs in high-resolution molecular imaging by mass spectrometry. Ian’s innovation of OrbiSIMS has had wide impact across research in biomedicine and novel devices, revolutionising the ability to measure chemistry at surfaces and interfaces. OrbiSIMS instruments are used around the world to give ground-breaking insights into how neighbouring cells regulate each other’s metabolism, to increase the lifetime of organic light emitting devices and in next generation biomaterials discovery.
The Medard W. Welch Award was established in 1969 to commemorate the pioneering efforts of Welch in founding and supporting the AVS and includes an honorary lectureship at the AVS International Symposium.
12 Jun 2025