Imaging Facility to Drive Transformational Research in Sciences

A new £8 million imaging facility at the University of Dundee is set to help drive the University’s objectives for developing transformational research in physical, life and medical sciences.

Opened on January 23 the Dundee Imaging Facility supports individual research projects from materials research through to tissue and small organism; it also creates workflows between technologies and has an active role in facilitating and supporting projects across disciplines.

Professor Jason Swedlow, academic lead on the growth and development of the Facility, said, “The opportunities for discovery based on biological microscopy are enormous, but these are perhaps equalled by the challenges in applying this rapidly evolving technology to important biological and biomedical problems.”

Facility Director Dr Sam Swift, who has driven the integration and management of the new imaging centre, said, “The University’s objectives are to develop transformational research areas, at the interface of the physical and engineering sciences with the life and medical sciences. These offer the biggest scientific challenges of our times.”

Funding for the DIF has been provided by a range of organisations including the Wellcome Trust, the Medical Research Council, the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, CR-UK and the Scottish Funding Council.