Science for Life Laboratory receives SEK 150 million extra a year until 2016 in the research bill. The goal is to become a national resource for the whole of Sweden.
– We will provide an advanced technological infrastructure will be useful to all Swedish researchers , says Professor Mathias Uhlén, scientific director of SciLifeLab in Stockholm to the Swedish Research Councils Journal Curie.
SciLifeLab is a national scientific center for large-scale research in life sciences, medicine and the environment. It is run jointly by the Karolinska Institute, the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm University and Uppsala University. From 2013 the nodes in Stockholm and Uppsala will join forces and form a national resource for the life sciences.
The background to the government’s focus is the notion that Sweden is falling behind in terms of clinical research.
Read more in Curie(Swedish only):
www.tidningencurie.se/22/nyheter/nyheter/2013-03-11-en-infrastruktur-for-hela-sverige.html
