In the context of the 23rd BioCity Symposium (August 15-16, 2013) the ninth Elias Tillandz prize for the best scientific paper published in Turku 2012 was awarded to

Pasi Kankaanpää, Lassi Paavolainen, Silja Tiitta, Mikko Karjalainen, Joacim Päivärinne, Jonna Nieminen, Varpu Marjomäki, Jyrki Heino and Daniel J. White
BioImageXD: an open, general-purpose and high-throughput image-processing platform.
Published in Nature Methods

and

Elisa Närvä, Nelly Rahkonen, Maheswara Reddy Emani, Riikka Lund, Juha-Pekka Pursiheimo, Juuso Nästi, Reija Autio, Omid Rasool, Konstantin Denessiouk, Harri Lähdesmäki,  Anjana Rao and Riitta Lahesmaa
RNA binding protein L1TD1 interacts with LIN28 via RNA and is required for human embryonic stem cell self-renewal and cancer cell proliferation.
Published in Stem Cells