Big investments at Core Facilities: SEK 30 million from the Swedish Research Council
EXTERNAL FUNDING. This year, a total of SEK 30 million has been granted Core Facilities by the Swedish Research Council. The funds are to cover new investments in current infrastructure, but also the start-up of a new infrastructure of national interest.
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- The Centre for Cellular imaging (CCI) has been granted SEK 7.5 million for purchase of an ELYRA 7-microscope, which is an upgrade from the current system that is almost 10 years old. The corresponding amount of money has also been granted KTH in Stockholm, and both investments are part of the National Microscopy Infrastructure (NMI).
- Proteomics Core Facility (PCF) has been granted SEK 13.6 million for the investment in advanced mass spectrometry equipment and related automatization robots. The grant is a third of the total amount of SEK 41 million given to nodes that are part of the national infrastructure BioMS.
- Mammalian Protein Expression (MPE) has been granted SEK 8.5 million over a period of five years for the formation of a new national infrastructure for protein production, PPS. Another five universities are part of the national project which in total received SEK 42.5 million.
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