The International Microscopy Congress is only held once every four years, with this most recent meeting held September 9th-14th, 2018, in Sydney, Australia. The “New Researcher Award” is open to PhD students and those within 4 years of completion of their degree who gave an oral presentation at the congress. Congrats to David Coucheron for receiving the Life Sciences New Researcher Award for his talk, “Optical Nanoscopy and Raman Spectroscopy Using an Integrated Photonic Chip Platform”!