which may lead to an expansion into the EU.
The Centre for Cellular Imaging, a Core Facility at Gothenburg University, may become a future bioimaging node for the entire EU. Recently, an independent evaluation of three Swedish facilities was carried out in which the Academy’s Core Facility received the highest score and placing.
Julia Fernandez-Rodriguez, Scientific Manager at the Centre for Cellular Imaging (CCI), is full of anticipation for the outcome of the evaluation process.
“If we get through this application process and become an EU centre for bioimaging, it will give the Academy’s researchers many more opportunities in the future for collaborative projects with international research groups.
Of the 71 advanced light microscopy resource centres, that submitted expressions of interest in being included in the European infrastructure for biological and clinical bioimaging, three are in Sweden. The Centre for Cellular Imaging, however, stands in a good position after the evaluation.
“Two other Swedish centres have also been evaluated, one in Uppsala and the other in Stockholm, but we received the best results and the highest points,” says Julia Fernandez-Rodriguez.
With microscopy equipment, researchers are able to reproduce cell structures and intracellular processes using different modern methods.
“We are the only Swedish Imaging Core Facility that is open to both industry and researchers from other universities. Even today, we have visitors from all over the world, but we have space for more.”
Julia and her colleagues at CCI now hope to receive national funding that equates to financing two new full-time positions. This will help them firstly to upgrade to a national bioimaging centre and, in the next step, be able to shoulder the role as a European Node, as the evaluation group considers them to be.
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